NewHometown Map Puzzle
A 500-piece jigsaw of your town, drawn like a real town map: colored districts, street names, neighboring towns and a compass. Comes in a gift tin with the picture on the lid.
$49.99 · free shipping
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Maven Forge
Puzzles and gifts made from the places and stories you love.
Hometown Maven turns the real streets of any U.S. town into puzzles, ornaments, shirts and word search books. Thought Maven puzzle books invite you to explore great literature, history and faith, one word at a time.
12,573U.S. towns mapped
Every streetfrom U.S. Census data
8 bookson Amazon
Hometown Maven
Your hometown, every street of it
Personalized gifts for any of 12,573 U.S. towns: a jigsaw puzzle, an ornament, a map tee and word search books, all drawn from your town's real streets.
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Literary puzzles that spark the mind
Puzzle Path Connections turns classics like A Christmas Carol into connected puzzles, plus word search collections for faith and America lovers.
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Gifts drawn from the streets you know by heart
Type your town and state when you order. We draw your town's real street map from official U.S. Census data, every road in its true place, and make your gift to order.
New
ChristmasHometown Map Ornament
A round metal ornament with your town's street map and name. Pick Navy, Cream or Holiday Red, and add your own line, like "Our First Home 2026".
$19.99 · free shipping
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Hometown Map Tee
Your town's full street map on the back and its outline on the chest. Soft Bella+Canvas tee in 4 colors, XS to 3XL.
$31.99 · free shipping
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Hometown Word Search Paperback
A 6 x 9 glossy paperback of word searches made from your town's street names, with answer keys. Printed just for you.
$24.99 · free shipping
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Printable Word Search Book
Every named street in your town, hidden 18 to a puzzle, in a printable PDF. Print the puzzles you like at home.
$7.99 · digital download
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Choose your gift
A puzzle, an ornament, a tee or a word search book.
Type your town
Town and state, like "Simsbury, CT". Any of 12,573 U.S. towns.
We draw your map
Your town's real streets from U.S. Census map data, drawn just for your order.
Made & shipped
Printed to order and mailed to your door, with free U.S. shipping on physical gifts.
12,573cities, towns & townships
5ways to give your hometown
100%made to order
See it in action
Every street, brought to life
Puzzle books that spark curiosity
THOUGHT MAVEN, an imprint of MAVEN FORGE, creates puzzles and activity books designed to spark curiosity, develop critical thinking and invite hands-on engagement.
Puzzle Path Connections
Read it. Puzzle it. Connect it. Understand it.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Gothic Classics · connected word puzzles from Washington Irving's tale
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A Christmas Carol
Christmas Classics · explore Dickens' story through connected puzzles
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The Declaration of Independence
250th Anniversary Edition · the complete original text, as connected puzzles
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The cover art of our Puzzle Path Connections books, on soft black Bella+Canvas tees. Sizes XS to 3XL.
NewA Christmas Carol Tee
A gold-lettered title over Arthur Rackham's joyful Christmas party, from our Christmas Classics cover.
$27.99 · free shipping
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NewThe Declaration of Independence Tee
Our 250th-anniversary cover: John Trumbull's famous painting of the Declaration, with the flag behind.
$27.99 · free shipping
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Tee
The Headless Horseman chases Ichabod Crane across the front, in the art from our Gothic Classics cover.
$27.99 · free shipping
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Word Search Collections
100 puzzles · 1,500 words · answer keys included
Large Print Bible Word Search
People, Places and Things · spacious, relaxing grids
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Bible Word Search
People, Places and Things · compact 6 x 9 edition
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Large Print America Word Search
People, Places and Things in the U.S.A. · relaxing grids
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America Word Search
People, Places and Things in the U.S.A. · compact 6 x 9 edition
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Town of Simsbury Word Search
Roads, Drives and Lanes · the book that started Hometown Maven
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Playful. Thoughtful. Faithful.
Maven Forge makes puzzles and keepsakes that reward curiosity. Our Thought Maven imprint creates connected literary puzzle experiences that encourage curiosity, wisdom and timeless values for readers of all ages.
Hometown Maven began with a word search of the roads, drives and lanes of Simsbury, Connecticut. Today the same idea works for any of 12,573 towns across the country, built from each town's own streets, so every gift is as personal as the place it comes from.
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