About Us

Solve It! Think Out of the Box is a small, privately owned family business on Pier 39 in San Francisco, CA.  Our current owner Yelena Martynenko, has been an educator for over thirty years, and is passionate about helping the young and the young-at-heart challenge their minds and grow. She has always pursued ways to grow minds through puzzles and critical thinking, and offering high quality specialty puzzles are a fantastic way to do just that.

Here at Solve It!, we specialize in thinking, learning, and above all playing and having fun! We offer a variety of games for developing young children as well as games that help to keep mature minds sharp in the later years of life, and everyone in between. We believe that you can do anything that you set your mind to, and that challenging yourself daily is the key to this. Overcoming the small, daily challenges that hinder us in life is essential in life to happiness and personal fulfillment. What better way to do that than through the fun challenge of solving puzzles? Our puzzles encourage that can-do-anything potential, which we all possess!

With our handcrafted wooden games, you can enjoy the simplicity of returning to your naturally-inquisitive self in order to expand your logical and spatial reasoning skills. By “thinking out of the box,” you can learn to see what is possible and what you can create! 

Solve It truly is the first store of its kind!