Puzzling World COMBO admission
Overview
About
An all-day pass to visit all of Puzzling World's attractions on a self-guided tour.
At a Glance
- Ages: 0-99
- Type: Mobile Ticket
- Price: Great value, all-day pass
- Duration: 90 min suggested
- Validity: Valid for day booked, check in between 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM
- Group size: Any group size welcome
- Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 48 hours before
- Translations: 15 Language Translations (in Print) available
- Accessibility: Mostly wheelchair accessible - staff to advise on arrival
Tour Highlight
- Challenge yourself, family, and friends to a race around The Great Maze.
- Our 6 Illusion Rooms, with optical, sculptural, and gravity-defying displays will test your reality
- Engage the brain in our Puzzle Centre, where dozens of puzzles (and helpful staff) await!
- Grab a bite to eat or a drink from the well-stocked 'Think Tank Café.'
- If a Gift Shop packed with puzzles and oddities is your thing, welcome to Nirvana!
- Take dozens of photos with our Leaning Tower of Wanaka, Roman Loos, Impossible Stairs, and much, much more.
What you'll do
Puzzling World is an iconic, unique attraction that since 1973 has fascinated people of all ages keen to engage in a fun, challenging, and sensory experience. Your COMBO admission allows you to experience everything on offer. Encouraging problem-solving and entertainment, we invented the world’s first 3-D maze and offer a huge Puzzle Café where you can try your hand at one of many brain-benders at the tables. Mind not boggled? - visiting the Illusion Rooms is sure to - from fully immersive ‘glow rooms’, following faces and a shrinking room to one where sculptures defy physics and another where objects glide uphill, your notion of reality will be tested. We invite you to come and enjoy Wanaka’s wonderful world of weirdness!
Meeting and pickup
What is included?
- All-day access to;
- The Great Maze.
- 6 x Illusion Rooms
- Puzzle Centre/'Think Tank Café'
- Puzzle gift shop
- Roman Loos, etc.
- Free water
What is not included?
- Food and drink - a cafe is on site
- Guided tours - Multiple language info leaflets and apps are available.
Traveller Restriction
- Children's tickets are available only when purchased with an Adult ticket/s.
- A moderate level of fitness is required to complete the maze [multiple stairways]
Prohibited Items
- No alcohol
- No smoking on site; is permitted in the car park.
- Shoes must be worn
- No self-catering inside - outdoor courtyard tables available for this
What to Bring
The Great Maze is outdoors, so dress appropriately
Additional Information
- Free storage for bags, strollers, etc available
- Free WIFI available
Meet your host
Itinerary
Wanaka Interactive Exhibitions Itinerary (2026 Guide) – What You'll See & Do
Explore the full itinerary for Puzzling World COMBO admission in Wanaka, New Zealand. This interactive exhibitions experience includes 4 stops over 1 day. Duration: 1 hours. Activity level: Moderate.
Here is the starting point
The Great Maze
The Great Maze encourages problem solving, exercise and fun. Puzzling World invented this format, designed to suit all ages with over-bridges and underpasses to create the world’s first 3-Dimensional Maze. Don’t worry, Emergency Exits for those with limited time, patience or energy are also included for those who may struggle!
Illusion Rooms
From all new, fully immersive ‘Glow Rooms’, a room where 168 famous faces seem to follow you, one where you appear to shrink or grow, another where objects look to glide uphill and a sun-filled gallery of incredible illusionary sculptures, these amazing rooms will certainly challenge your perceptions of reality.
Puzzle Centre/Cafe
Walking into the Puzzle Centre where dozens of puzzles await the curious while a massive kaleidoscope ceiling looks on from above is a visual treat in itself. Grab a bite to eat or a drink from the well-stocked Think Tank Café then engage the brain with many individual puzzles and two-person brain teasers on offer. Trained staff are on hand to help if required and with a huge selection for sale in the Gift Shop all ages, abilities and temperament are covered.
Picture This…
Being named as one of the ‘world’s weirdest attractions’ comes from endless wacky photo-ops inside & out. Even the toilets here are a lesson in perspective - and history! Don’t be a dummy, bring your camera and your smiles and share the fun!
This concludes the tour.
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