Leon MacNeal

Leon MacNeal is one of the six protagonists of The Puzzle Place. He is an African-American boy, as shown when he prefers to play an African thumb piano called a kalimba ("Mad Music Magic"), plays a djembe drum ("Different Drummer"), and celebrates Kwanzaa ("Deck the Halls"). He lives with his unnamed brother and parents in New York, but he speaks of having a paternal grandmother named Edna ("Big Boys Don't Cry") and an uncle Ray (“We Three Kings”).

He is portrayed by Noel MacNeal; they share a surname, and Leon is Noel spelled in reverse with Eric Jacobson puppeteering him to MacNeal's voice in season 3.