My husband solved it really quickly, I was hoping it was going to take an hour or more.

Got this for my son for Christmas who loves stuff like this. Unfortunately, it wasn’t clear that the cardboard box the main box comes in has to be “solved” first. He thought the first clue was for the box itself and the way he interpreted the clue actually opened the main box.
So the whole thing was over in three minutes. Once he realized there were other things to solve on the cardboard box, he went back and tried solving them, but the fun of it was already lost. So disappointed as this was his main gift.

The cardboard box should be redesigned so that it can’t be opened without following the first clue correctly and be clearly marked that all the clues on that box lead to opening the wooden box LAST. As it is, in the excitement of opening a gift, of course the first thing you go to is the hard object inside what you just opened. Reading through reviews it looks like we’re not the only ones this happened to.

Such a bummer.

The puzzle box itself was fine. But when I ordered the 50 dollar gift card, it said Amazon was in stock. When my husband opened the gift and went to redeem it, surprise surprise..no stock in Amazon. He’s not a “foodie” or a coffee drinker. He needed Amazon money to complete a purchase and I paid a premium for a box with a useless card. If you need a certain card, don’t trust Man Crates to provide it for you.

I previously had received the decanter crate which was great to open so when I ordered the puzzle box I expected a similar experience. The puzzle itself was fun and entertaining but when we went to redeem the gift card, options only included Home Depot and Bass Pro Shop far fewer options than advertised.

I am so disappointed. I was super excited to give this gift. But he was not at all interested in solving puzzles. I will unfortunately be returning it...I want to see how it works! I suppose the point is give it to someone who enjoys puzzles.

I bought three of these and the recipients all said the same thing. They didn’t have to do the puzzles. They looked at the box for a few minutes and were able to tilt/shift it open. They said it seemed like maybe the pins weren’t set but it could be a flaw in the boxes. This was a disappointment because you pay the extra money for the experience which they did not get the opportunity to have.

We bought this as a present for christmas. Due to the description we assumed it would take a while for the recipient to open. Literally opened after 1 minute. Was the biggest rip off. We spent the extra 30 dollars too get this box because we thought it would be funny, but it was a huge disappointment. Do not buy this product. You are wasting your money.

Pretty disappointing. I got this for my dad and paid the extra $10 to have it wrapped in duck tape to make it challenging. Either the turning from the unwrapping (or just poorly put together), my dad opened the box to find the interior box open and the giftcard right there. Could not have been less anticlimactic. If I had known, I would have just bought him a $50 Giftcard and saved the $50+ I paid for the non-existant puzzle

I gifted my husband the puzzle box for his birthday. He liked it well enough I guess (though it took him less than 10 minutes to finish...not quite what I was imagining...) but when he went online to redeem the gift card, pretty much EVERYTHING was out of stock. It would have been nice to know ahead of time what was available before I ordered, or provide a way to reserve a gift card, or something like that. In any event, I'm pretty disappointed, as this was the only gift I got him, as I thought the puzzle itself would be a nice present. I didn't mean to basically just get him a gift card...that we can't even redeem. Not worth it.

The description of the puzzle box promised me at least 30 minutes of puzzling to get the box open. The box practically fell open after the first clue. This was supposed to be a fun activity for my husband and his friends to do on his birthday. It was over in less than 5 minutes. I want my money back.

My wife thought very hard about what she wanted to get me for our 11 year anniversary and thought mancrate would come to the rescue. She had so much excitement built up for this gift. When it finally came to our exchange the kids were running around and I looked at the great big lettering of clue one rather than read the whole paragraph above. I figured out the box in about a minute and a half. I am a man and men fix things every day for their families. This was a very simple box covered in colorful cardboard that had other puzzles printed on it (those took me 17 minutes). Instead of giving my wife the pleasure of watching me scratch my head for a so-called 50 minutes, this was a HUGE let down for her. No amount of clever advertising can cover up a product that is simple and clearly just a money maker. Mancrate, please think about the real working man before making your next product. -zackman-

Really disappointed in this product. It took about 2 minutes to get it open. I gave it to my son for Father's Day and while he was trying to figure out the first clue, I just pulled on the top of the small box and it popped right off.

Either my husband is the next Einstein or this puzzle box came already open :( so sad because we were really looking forward to doing this as a family . Literally opened in 5 seconds flat. With no puzzle at all . Waste of time in my opinion

i got this for my boyfriend for our 1 year thinking it would be fun for him to do, i did the extra wrapping in duct tape box he thought that was fun but when he got to the box, he just pulled the top off & it came right off with no challenge he didn’t even have to read anything it was literally just a minute for him to open it so i was super disappointed. than when we redeemed the card it didn’t have half the options y’all advertised for gift cards like game stop, etc.

Gave this to my husband for Valentine's Day. He didn't have to do anything, it just opened. Waste of my money. With shipping, I paid $100 for a $50 gift card. Very disappointed