Escape from the Gingerbread House

 

A six or seven pound job from a UK supermarket in the run-up to Christmas, finally got around to letting the nine year old loose on this -- pretty much suited for that age range, essentially it's four separate puzzles to be solved, one maths, one tetrominoes, one logic and one (very) simple substitution cipher which give four answers: combine these to determine which one of twelve gingerbread men you have to eat to escape the house.

Fully offline, small basic hint note with each puzzle, and each puzzle has its own envelope so you can work on it individually, or divvy up one puzzle per person for a small group; solution booklet which jumps straight to the answers so no layered hint system here.

But, it's cheap and cheerful, scratches a puzzling itch and great for kids to work through on their own, using parents to shout at if they need help. Taking a photo of the last logic puzzle on an ipad and marking it up that way not only makes it easy to erase mistakes, it's quite good to setup a few devices at once and race to the solution too.