BEST OF · SEPTEMBER 2026

Best Puzzles Kickstarter projects to watch

9 live Puzzles projects ranked by Lens Score — a 0-100 composite of funding velocity, backer momentum, target completion, and Kickstarter staff-pick signal.

Pulled from 9 live Puzzles projects (category averages 158% of goal, $53K total pledged across the category). Updated September 2026.

  1. 01
    ★ Staff Pick🆕 NewAU

    C-37 | One Puzzle Two Outcomes

    A mechanical puzzle box. Two rival networks. One decision only you can make. Reveal the core. Choose a side.

    $27K raised379% funded313 backers+7.2% 24h
    86
    EARLY MOMENTUM
  2. 02
    🆕 NewGB

    Sjandiva Outdoors - Puzzles in the Peaks

    A deeply unreliable guide to mountains, caves, camping disasters, and why “we’re almost there” is never true - plus puzzles.

    $1K raised360% funded51 backers
    60
    EARLY MOMENTUM
  3. 03
    CA

    JIGZUP

    World's Fastest Puzzle

    $9K raised84% funded161 backers+2.2% 24h
    27
    LENS SCORE
  4. 04
    🆕 NewGB

    A Question of Dragons - a Cold Case Mystery set in 999AD

    Cosykiller's New Case File Mystery Game designed for serious sleuths and lovers of ciphers and codes. Based on facts, fictional story.

    $9K raised90% funded69 backers+24.9% 24h
    25
    EARLY MOMENTUM
  5. 05
    US

    Magic Picture Word Search: VOLUME 2

    Magic Picture Word Search is a new way to do word search! Reveal colorful art as you complete the puzzle!

    $2K raised105% funded22 backers0.0% 24h
    25
    LENS SCORE
  6. 06
    US

    Tandemice Bathhouse Jigsaw Puzzle

    300-piece puzzle featuring the tandem mice overtaking the the bathhouse !

    $171 raised29% funded9 backers0.0% 24h
    10
    LENS SCORE
  7. 07
    IT

    Braintrekking: Puzzles with numbers and words

    They said the world didn’t need any more puzzles. I didn’t know that… so I started creating new ones anyway.

    $23 raised2% funded2 backers0.0% 24h
    3
    LENS SCORE
  8. 08
    US

    Klaki: math puzzle- square the circle with colorful shapes

    Klaki is a puzzle featuring colorful geometric shapes for assembling on a colorful board to create a circle and a square shape.

    $27 raised0% funded1 backers0.0% 24h
    2
    LENS SCORE
  9. 09
    🆕 NewUS

    WTBLX

    Arithmetical and abstract, take anywhere set. Set your own rules or follow agreed logic.

    $0 raised0% funded0 backers
    0
    EARLY MOMENTUM

How this list is built

We pull all live Puzzles projects on Kickstarter (refreshed every 8 hours), then rank them by either Lens Score (for projects with at least 24 hours of data) or Early Momentum (for projects in their first 72 hours). The top 10 land here.

No editorial weighting — the ranking is the math. The list updates automatically every hour, so the projects on this page next week may not be the same ones you see today.

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