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Match each piece to its outline, laser-engraved on the backboard.
1 / 7The Bumfuzzled puzzle club
A peculiar wooden puzzle, every month.
Each month Chad hand-sketches a brand-new Bumfuzzled: 73 to 184 brain-bending wooden pieces that are calm, tactile, beautiful and a tad eccentric. It's made once, in 500 copies, then retired forever.
- A brand-new design every month, never repeated
- 5 mm wooden pieces, printed and laser-cut to 0.05 mm
- Three difficulty modes in every box, so the whole family can play
- No spoilers: the box shows only outlines
This month: Bumfuzzled #35, Vitruvian Visage · 127 pieces · about 7" × 10"
Choose how you puzzle
Arrives with box 1Welcome kit, free in your first boxWooden sorting trays · A mini Bumfuzzled to warm up · Art card of your first puzzle
- Month 3Mini wooden puzzle
- Month 6Puzzle mat
- Month 12The yearly surprise puzzle (this year's will retail at $99)
- Free US shipping
- Skip, pause or cancel any time
- Secure checkout · Shop Pay
- $330K+raised on Kickstarter
- 5 for 5campaigns funded
- 6,722Bumfuzzleds sold in 2025
- 400+subscribers in 2026
What puzzle people say
Not your grandma's jigsaw. (Though she'll love it.)
“In essence, these are form-follows-function puzzle pieces.”
“…if you wanted your kid to grow up to be an industrial designer, introducing them to this sort of puzzle would serve them better than the traditional kind, where the cuts are arbitrary.”
“…a challenging abstract jigsaw puzzle that my son and I had a ball putting together.”
“…the puzzle was a bit more challenging than it looked like it was going”
Kickstarter totals: Bumfuzzled (2021), Bumfuzzled 2 (2022), Party in the Back (2023), Toomuchery (2024), Bumfuzzled Spring 2025, as reported by Kicktraq. Sales and subscribers: Puzzle Bomb's 2025 stakeholder report and puzzlebomb.com.
How it works
Your monthly stay-at-home vacation.
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Pick your plan
Quarterly saves 30%, monthly saves 20%. Your first box ships in one business day, with your free welcome kit.
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A surprise every month
A brand-new Bumfuzzled lands on your doorstep each month. The box shows only outlines, so it's a surprise until the last piece.
- 3
Collect, gift, repeat
Gifts arrive along the way, plus the yearly surprise puzzle. Skip, pause or cancel any time. No guilt, no hoops, no awkward emails.
Subscriber gifts
The longer you puzzle, the more you get.
No half-price first box that disappears after a month. Every subscriber gets a welcome kit in box 1 and a gift along the way, right up to the yearly surprise puzzle.
Free in your first box
Your welcome kit
- Wooden sorting trays
- A mini Bumfuzzled to warm up
- Art card of your first puzzle
- Month 2Art print of the month's designOn the monthly plan
- Month 3Mini wooden puzzleOn the quarterly and monthly plans
- Month 6Puzzle matOn the quarterly and monthly plans
- Month 12The yearly surprise puzzle (this year's will retail at $99)On the quarterly and monthly plans
Welcome kit and gift contents may change from time to time; the yearly surprise puzzle is a brand-new design.
Made for sharing
One small table. Everybody leaning in.
It's small enough for a coffee table and tricky enough for the whole family. Kids start on the engraved backboard, puzzle pros go freeform, and somebody always shouts when the sneaky piece finally fits.
Scenes created for this page with the real puzzles as reference; the people are not customers.
Customer reviews
"Puzzle Bomb day is one of the favorite days of the month."
Puzzle Bomb customers, word for word · all 5 stars
★★★★★
I'm a monthly subscriber, and Puzzle Bomb day is one of the favorite days of the month in our household. I'm not sure how Chad keeps dreaming these things up, but they're always extremely enjoyable!★★★★★
So much fun! I am not traditionally a puzzler, but I gave this months a try. Got it today and put it together in about an hour while listening to music. It was such a fun experience. The puzzle was unique, the pieces so cool, and putting it together was satisfying. Try it out! Not to mention, it comes very well packaged and ships crazy fast.★★★★★
Oh my! I've always loved puzzles but these are out of this world. Even my husband, who would never touch a puzzle, has a hard time pulling away from these. Thanks, Chad, for your excellent work!★★★★★
I just received my first subscription puzzle, and I’m hooked. Now I know how they can offer such a generous guarantee, no one would cancel! The quality, the attention to detail, and even the packaging, and ease of storage are incredible.★★★★★
I've done over 400 puzzles with the Hoefnagel Puzzle Club over the last 5 years or so and your puzzles have been my favorite. They are so intricate and fun and beautiful and I wanted to thank you for this great puzzling experience. They're so relaxing and diverting from any present worries. I joined your new puzzle club too and just did the first puzzle which I also loved!★★★★★
These puzzles are very high quality! Unique designs with bright colors, but the box only gives outlines --> NO SPOILERS! The boxes they come in are also adorable, compact, and perfect for a collection of amazing puzzles! Very excited to be a subscriber for surprise puzzles monthly!!…★★★★★
These are smallish, but every bit as fun as a 1,000 piece puzzle. I'm absolutely hooked!★★★★★
Insane puzzles! I do wooden puzzles, but had never seen anything quite like this. The puzzles are so intricately designed, the precision is incredible, and the people and customer service at Puzzle Bomb have all been top notch.Show 8 more reviews
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I love how unique these puzzles are! The vibrant colors and high-quality construction are something you can't truly appreciate until you see them in person… They are so cleverly designed that you are constantly being fooled in ways you never imagined. Even after a dozen of their puzzles I still find myself impressed when they trick me again.★★★★★
This is truly something unique in the puzzle world, as I've never seen anything even remotely like these. I eagerly await each new release as each puzzle is so different from the previous one…★★★★★
I love how every one of Chad's designs makes you think differently about the solve strategy. It's not just cut and paste from puzzle to puzzle, but an entirely different experience. His thoughtfulness in the design of each puzzle really shines.★★★★★
This was the most fun I have had puzzling in a long time (maybe ever.)… I love it when a designer/cutter fools me :)… This was so fun, and I am so proud of myself, as I didn't used the provided pattern. Highly recommended★★★★★
This is such a cool company! I have many of their puzzles and have enjoyed putting all of them together! The puzzles are very unique, extremely artistic, and high quality! Keep up the good work!★★★★★
Chad's designs are something else, in the best of ways. It's a category redefiner, breaking all the rules of puzzles.★★★★★
I've been buying the Bumfuzzled line since the very beginning. Insanely creative puzzles that will bend your brain!★★★★★
Puzzle Bomb puzzles are quirky and unique, but tons of fun to do!
In every box
A small piece of functional art.
- Hand-sketched
- Original art by Chad, drawn by hand, never repeated.
- 5 mm wooden pieces
- Wooden board with a birch veneer, UV-printed in vivid color and laser-cut to within 0.05 mm.
- 73 to 184 pieces
- About 7" × 10" when done. Smallish, "but every bit as fun as a 1,000 piece puzzle".
- Backboard + frame
- An engraved backboard and an outer frame give you three ways to solve it.
- No-spoiler box
- Flat, record-album style: it protects the pieces and looks great on a shelf.
- 500 made
- One print run per design. When it's gone, it's gone.
Adjustable difficulty
Fun for all ages and abilities!
Intermediate
Build inside the outer frame. The edges give you a head start.
Expert
Dump the pieces out and go freeform, like a classic wooden puzzle.
Why Bumfuzzled
Puzzling, reinvented.
| Feature | Bumfuzzled | A typical cardboard jigsaw |
|---|---|---|
| Pieces | ✓ 5 mm wood, laser-cut | Thin pressed cardboard |
| Shapes | ✓ Leaves, gears, letters, invaders… | The same knob-and-hole, over and over |
| Difficulty | ✓ Three modes in one box | One way to do it |
| The picture | ✓ A surprise: no spoilers on the box | Printed on the lid |
| Afterwards | ✓ Display it, gift it, solve it again | Back in the box (minus a piece) |
| Lost a piece? | ✓ Free replacement, even if the dog ate it | Good luck |
35 designs and counting
Every month, something completely different.
Machines, pandas, flying pigs, alphabet soup. Each Bumfuzzled brings new tricks and new solve techniques. Subscribe and you never miss one.
- #34 Sublime Contrivance
- #33 Ponderous Panda
- #32 Spilled Spellings
- #31 Porcine Ascent
- #29 Nebular Skirmish
- #28 Prismatic Parasol
- #26 Polychrome Slalom
- #24 Majestic Breach
- #20 Towering Repast
- #18 Skyward Spectrum
- #13 Skyline Oasis
- #8 Epochal Interlinks
Meet the makers
Caylyn, Chad and five Kickstarters.
Puzzle Bomb is a wife-and-husband team in the Kansas City area. Chad, a board-game guy for most of his adult life, sketches every puzzle by hand; Caylyn is "the administratively gifted half of the equation that Chad would be lost without". Since 2021, five Kickstarter campaigns have funded, each beating its goal. In 2026, the Bumfuzzled became a monthly subscription.
Funded by puzzle lovers
| Campaign | Raised | Backers |
|---|---|---|
| Bumfuzzled 2021 | $40,654 | 646 |
| Bumfuzzled 2 2022 | $97,908 | 1,080 |
| Party in the Back 2023 | $101,027 | 486 |
| Toomuchery 2024 | $36,295 | 227 |
| Bumfuzzled Spring 2025 2025 | $54,356 | 392 |
Totals as reported by Kicktraq from Kickstarter.
The Puzzle Bomb guarantee.
Ships in one business day
Your first box leaves within one business day, and US shipping is always free.
Replacements, no questions asked
A misprint, a lost parcel, a piece gone missing, even if your dog ate the puzzle (yum!). We send a replacement, no photos needed.
Cancel any time
Skip, pause or cancel whenever you like. No guilt, no hoops, no awkward emails.
Refunds on one-time orders
Not happy with a one-time purchase for any reason? Full refund. (Subscription puzzles are bought sight-unseen at a discount, so they're replaced, not refunded, if you don't like a design.)
Questions
Before your first puzzle
Quarterly: $143.97 every 3 months ($47.99 a puzzle, 30% off), and one puzzle ships each month. Monthly: $54.99 a month (20% off). One-time: this month's puzzle for $69, no subscription. Both subscriptions include free US shipping, the welcome kit in your first box, gifts along the way and the yearly surprise puzzle.
Any time, for any reason: just e-mail vincent@vergonjeanne.fr. On the quarterly plan you keep the puzzles of the quarter you've paid for; you're simply not billed again.
As hard as you like. Every box has a backboard engraved with the cut pattern (beginner), an outer frame (intermediate), or you can go freeform (expert). It's an evening's puzzle for most people, and subscribers tell us their four- and five-year-olds help out.
About 7" × 10" when finished, with 73 to 184 thick wooden pieces. Small enough for a coffee table, and the flat box stores like a record album.
One of the best. It arrives beautifully packaged, there's nothing like it in stores, and a subscription is a birthday every month. You can also buy a single puzzle for $69.
The subscription is US only for now. Outside the US? Write to vincent@vergonjeanne.fr: Chad offers international puzzlers a quarterly 3-pack.
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