You could try these Sonic puzzles & board/non-video games. This page is all about non-video, non-electronic Sonic themed games and puzzles of all types. You can see both old and new items here, as several were made throughout the years. If they're able to be bought still, you can usually find the info in the description.
The art is nice, it is by the comic book artist Tyson Hesse from IDW. It is branded and licensed...but where do you find it? This is a 2020 item.
To play the game you choose a classic Sonic character from Sonic, Tails, Amy or Knuckles and you get their color matched dice to roll. Your goal is to build a Green Hill zone by grabbing cards in accordance with what you roll. However, some cards are 'first get = first grab', so you do actually have to be fast to try and win the game. There is a boss to build at the end too, but it's the X from Sonic 2 instead of the Checker-Wrecker that usually appears in this zone. (It had to be complex to make it fun to build, so they couldn't choose the usual one.
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The BoardGame Geeks
This is a more complicated Sonic board game that is modular and customizable. It released maybe in 2019 or 2020 but has since caught on with players of table top board game type things. You may even find it in specialty stores for such games in 2021.
It is by Shinobi 7 Games, and this is the core/starter game box thing. It comes with 4 3D figures for the player characters so you can choose Sonic, Tails, Knuckles or Amy to race the board. You put the board together (as seen, makes a path) going along it with your character card (seen at right) & the token things doing various challenges/fights etc trying to get to the finish line first.
What's interesting/unique about the game is...because it did well, they made 'expansion packs' for it with other characters like Shadow & Eggman that come with figures, extra path boards, more cards & challenges. That way you can keep making the game different and re playing it
At left is the Eggman Boss Expansion Pack, which is sold separately. The far left seems to be a render of what it might look like, while the other is the real thing on store shelves now.
And it has a classic style, but modern table top game play with dice, cards and more to use. The box art is interesting here, it's deliberately like a Genesis game box, and then takes the 'looming Eggman' element from the old poster and combines it with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles & Amy art to complete the box. It's a game for 2 to 4 players by Kess Entertainment.
Info on what to do to play it pending. This first appeared in 2023.
This is a 4 in 1 super color puzzle box. It has CG art for all 4 puzzles, with nice colorful scenes.
You get STK on a simple 12 piece, jumping Sonic & Flying Tails on a 16 piece, STK all running/profile on a 20 piece and Sonic vs. Eggman on the 24 piece puzzle.
This is reasonably priced at 20 dollars for all 4 puzzles. This appears on Amazon (and elsewhere?) in 2024. This is a factory photo.
The left box has 3 of 48 piece puzzles. You get one with Rouge, Shadow & Silver on a Chemical Plant background, a STK all jumping in front of
The most complicated puzzle is in a box by itself, with 104 pieces. This one has Amy, Tails, Knuckles, Sonic, Eggman in the background, Shadow, Metal Sonic and Silver all posed to be 'rushing forward' at the viewer. The background here is still somewhat Green Hilly. Both of these are 20 dollars at Amazon in 2024.
(Remember: You can use "Puzzle Saver" type glue to stick completed puzzles together and hang them on the wall like a poster if you really like their designs)
This is from the "Comic Series Collection" (as noted by the speech bubble on the box) It uses a bunch of IDW comic panels laid out in a square to create the design for the jigsaw type puzzle. At 500 pieces this is for a bit older audience as they'll be fairly small. It is complicated enough art though, that it shouldn't be too hard to put it together.
This appears at 5 below for their expected price of 5 dollars which is quite reasonable for IDW fans.
It's dubious, but it is an item that you have to piece together. It stands up at the end, though, creating a decoration for your room. This is the "Jixelz Remix Chillin' Sonic Set". Jixelz are little bristly flat blocks that fit together like a jagged sort of pixel. By snapping them into this pattern, you can build classic Sonic sitting on a little hill with a palm tree, 2 rings, coconut drink and the GHZ type ground. As you can see, it's a pretty decent size as compared to the normal spiral notebook there at the bottom.
Is this thing...somewhat annoying to look at?
The jagged nature of the edges of these makes it come across as perhaps slightly out of focus. It is reasonably priced at 15 dollars, but unknown where it's sold. This is a factory photo they used to announce they'll make it, not a shop photo.
It's a puzzle shoe that is a desktop pen cup. That's right, a puzzle that ends up looking like a shoe that you put your pens/scissors into on your desk. And then the whole thing has a Sonic theme. Strange...but here it is...
The idea of this is that it has a plastic sole that you snap together which is the base for the regular puzzle pieces. The shoe pattern has a scatter/collage of all modern Sonic characters. Once the puzzle is done, that blue platsic container fits into the shoe to stablize it and let you fill the cup with desktop stuff. This is about 20 dollars and is at Hot Topic, even though...they dont really sell puzzles. This is a 2025 item