Best Gifts for Backpackers - Puzzle Edition

Here are our ideas for best gifts for backpackers - puzzle edition!

Backpackers love to travel the world on a shoe string budget. They love to travel to far corners of the world. They don't take much with them, whatever they can fit into their backpack. They also travel with frugality in mind at every corner. Travelling by car, train, bus or even hitchhiking are favourites modes of travel. 

We could even say they are minimalists. So what would make the best gifts for backpackers?

Well we thing flat packing puzzles are perfect. They don't take up much room so they would be barely noticed in their backpack. Some can be really hard to solve so could take hours to figure them out. This is perfect! Backpackers have a lot of down time so having something to do like a flat packing puzzle is perfect!

Flat packing puzzles are just plain fun too!

So check our list below of flat packing puzzles that are best gifts for backpackers!

We have a whole other list of flat packing puzzles that are perfect for travellers so make sure to check that one too!

Squaring the Apple Puzzle

This acrylic puzzle consists of an apple that is made up of 12 elements, which are a combination of two units.  There are 5 tasks to solve. 

Pocket Puzzlers Dancers

The goal is to fit four of the dancers onto the dance floor.

Horse Packing Puzzle

The objective is to fit all the horses into the frame! 

Fuji+ Puzzle

The object of the puzzle is to put the snow on top of the mountain. Perfect for Japanese backpackers.

Four T's Puzzle

This puzzle is made of acrylic. There are two different square frames with two levels of difficulty. The goal is to fit all four T's into each square.

Double Packing Puzzle

Fit all the pieces into the puzzle!

Easy Eight Hard Eight Puzzle

The job is to pack those five letters into each side of the tray, one supposedly “easy” and the other admittedly “hard.” Watch out, they're tricky!

½ + ½ Dominoes Puzzle

This puzzle consists of 11 pieces. The elements of this puzzle are combinations of two diagonal halves of a domino tile. The objective is to fit all the elements into the frame.

Robot Packing Puzzle

Fit the robots into the frame...seems easy enough!

Tetrahexagons Puzzle

This puzzle consists of a frame and 7 tetrahexagon elements. There are 4 objectives to the puzzle, and for each task, the pieces can be rotated and flipped over, but they cannot overlap. 

Hex Pak Two Layer Packing Puzzle

This is a handmade and simple but clever 3D packing puzzle. Pack the six pieces into the frame, leaving no part of them outside or above the frame. But each piece is comprised of two layers, making it anything but straight-forward.

Sleazier Puzzle

This is a  plastic packing puzzle. There are just four pieces to fit into a tray that's clearly way oversized for them. The goal is to fit all four pieces into the tray.

Tromino Trails Puzzle

This is an elegant set of five progressively more complex and difficult challenges, each using the same pieces and each with a unique solution. The goal is to solve the 5 different challenges by arranging pieces correctly.

Duopento Puzzle

The perfect gift for two backpackers exploring the world together. Insert as many pieces, of the same color, adjacent to one another. Place your pieces in such a way that your opponent can't fit a piece in to block you. The person with the largest area of pieces wins.

The 12th Piece Puzzle

The goal is to make the background with the twelve blue pieces, and twelve white pieces to make the numerals. If you can assemble them correctly, you'll make the iconic emblem of Seattle football fandom.

Tetro Emptiness Puzzle

Backpacking is anything but empty, but maybe this puzzle is. The goal of the puzzle is to insert all of the white & grey acrylic pieces into the yellow frame.

Red Circle Puzzle

The objective of the puzzle is to fit the red circle into the frame together with all the other elements.  There is only one solution!

Rectangling of Triangles Puzzle

This puzzle has 6 different objectives: 

1) Make a rectangle
2) Make a triangle
3) Make two triangles simultaneously
4) Make three triangles simultaneously
5) Make four triangles simultaneously
6) Make a symmetrical n-angle, where "n" equals: 3, 4, 5, ..., 15, 16.

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