Relatively easy to separate the parts. Rebuilding them is more tricky.

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Break the codes inspired by the great Leonardo DaVinci.

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Arrange the series of wooden pieces so that they fit neatly onto the wooden base.

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This puzzle looks nice and friendly in it’s packaging... but is actually a most vindictive creation. It can fairly claim it’s brilliance through the simplicity of it’s design. Simple to solve though it is not.

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Ever gutted a fish before? Negotiating your way through this fish's intestine is codfusing in the extreme. Just when you think you haddock you end up back at the starting plaice! Enough of the chippy chat - your sense of achievement on solving this fishy problem will beat any feeling you could possibly have using a fishing rod and bait. WARNING: This product is not edible.

This puzzle is an easier shape to visualise than its more extreme cousin, The Cell, which makes it slightly less daunting. However, it is justifiably the second most difficult puzzle in the range and is still one of our most sadistic creations that will test your puzzling powers to the limit. So the battle lines are drawn... mind vs puzzle and in our experience, the puzzle usually wins!

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Finding a way to collapse the shape is quite straight forward. Rebuilding it is much more difficult, requiring patience and dexterity!

Finding the way to pull this puzzle apart is not easy at all. But it's panda play compared to rebuilding it! A highly complex puzzle to master.

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The only 'hard stuff' you will find in this box is possibily the most unusual and ingenious problem solving challenge ever created. Can you free the bottle from the puzzle? INSTRUCTIONS: Take the puzzle from the box and replace the card bottle with your finest bottle of vintage wine. Place the wine bottle correctly in the puzzle by following the instruction sheet provided. Finally, put the bottle and puzzle back in the box and present it as a lovely thoughtful gift!

Invented by renowned puzzle master Oskar van Deventer, the Planets Puzzle is rather hard!

Crossteaser Puzzle Objective: rotate a colour wheel of your choice into the open space, the colour wheels can be moved on both sides of the game, and with every movement, the colour changes.

Another totally unique concept from Recent Toys. Be prepared for the completely unexpected as the sliding peices move, mirror and reflect different images of the Mona Lisa

Number Crunchers - Just when you thought sudoku was running out of gas, something comes along to reinvent the craze.

Another totally unique concept from Recent Toys. Be prepared for the completely unexpected as the sliding peices move, mirror and reflect different images.

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AIM: Remove the metal ring. An excellent design - very difficult to solve and our favourite in the range. Neither tricks nor clever lateral thinking are required to solve this one - just good, old fashioned, hard puzzling! Designed by Wil Strijbos (Holland)

A masterpiece by metal smith Akio Yamamoto, the objective is to remove the masterfully united ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ loops from the metal plate crafted in the shape of the ‘Forbidden Fruit’ Hanayama classify this as a level 5 puzzle. 1 being the easiest and 6 being the hardest.