GREAT FAMILY GAMES (YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD OF)
K-1st grades Zingo Nominated TOTY 2009 Best Toy of the Year! This innovative game encourages pre-readers and early readers alike to match the pictures and words on game tiles to the pictures and words on the challenge cards. The first player with a full card wins the game by yelling "Zingo!" Improved image distribution, 2 levels of play, and several game variations keep the zaniness going for hours! Learning Skills: Reading, Word Recognition, Focus Visual Discrimination, Matching, Concentration Block Buddies Kids learn patterns while building their Block Buddies Take block building to a higher level Replicate the people, animals, and vehicles range in challenge from Level One to Level Four Cards with 76 full-color designs inspire wonderful creations, all made with the 21 well-crafted, colorful wood blocks Sequence for Kids Ages 3 & up. Play a card from your hand, place your chip on a corresponding character on the board. When you have 4 in a row, it's a SEQUENCE and you win! Use a UNICORN card to place your chip anywhere. Remove your opponent's chip with a DRAGON card. Have fun with your friends and family. Connect Four The rules are simple: try to build a row of four checkers while keeping your opponent from doing the same. Sounds easy, but it's not! The vertical strategy creates a unique challenge: you must think in a whole new way to block your opponent's moves! For 2 players. Game includes: grid, two end supports, 21 black checkers and 21 red checkers.
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GREAT FAMILY GAMES YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD OF
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4 Way Countdown Take the ultimate math challenge. Kids can practice their skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills by simply using the numbers on the dice. The first to flip over all 10 numbered keys wins the game. Game board includes sliding cover for easy storage. 2-4 players. Use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division Award winning math game 4 Way Spelldown Test your spelling skills against the luck of the roll. Simply combine the roll of the letter dice and your wooden keys to make words. The first to flip over all 10 keys wins the game. Perfect for practicing spelling skills. Game board includes sliding cover for easy storage. 2-4 players. SMATH Smath is the game that makes math fun. Now you can sharpen your math skills the fun way. This game makes addition, subtraction, multiplication and division more exciting than ever. Players use number and symbol tiles to make math equations crossword puzzlestyle. Use the tiles in your hand and the ones already on the board to build your own new equations.
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4 Way Countdown Take the ultimate math challenge. Kids can practice their skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills by simply using the numbers on the dice. The first to flip over all 10 numbered keys wins the game. Game board includes sliding cover for easy storage. 2-4 players. Use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division Award winning math game 4 Way Spelldown Test your spelling skills against the luck of the roll. Simply combine the roll of the letter dice and your wooden keys to make words. The first to flip over all 10 keys wins the game. Perfect for practicing spelling skills. Game board includes sliding cover for easy storage. 2-4 players. SMATH Smath is the game that makes math fun. Now you can sharpen your math skills the fun way. This game makes addition, subtraction, multiplication and division more exciting than ever. Players use number and symbol tiles to make math equations crossword puzzle-style. Use the tiles in your hand and the ones already on the board to build your own new equations. Sudoku The objective of a Sudoku game is to fill a 9x9 grid so that the numbers 1 through 9 occur exactly once in each row, column, and 3x3 box http://www.websudoku.com/ Battleship You’re the commander of your fleet, so prepare your strategy and lead your troops to victory. Call out your coordinates and mark your hits and misses. D-6. It s a hit. Try to destroy your opponent s fleet before they destroy yours then remove the mission sheet from the command unit to reveal the battlefield. The new double-sided battle grid brings even more excitement to Battleship.
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Blik Blok Simply put... A building game created by an architect has our attention. Challenge YOUR inner architectural brilliance with Blik Blok. A spatial game designed to challenge even those with the highest skill levels in visual thinking! Is it a game? Is a puzzle? Whatever it is, all ages are drawn to it! Brain Box BrainBox This clever new memory recall game challenges players to memorize as many details as they can in just 10 short seconds! Turn the timer over, concentrate on the card and try to memorize as many details of the picture as you can. Players then roll the die to determine which question will be asked and quiz each other on what they remember. How many stripes on the shirt? What's the capital city? What is the name of the famous person shown? Criss Cross Puzzles The unique x-shaped wooden frame is what makes ChrissCross Puzzles stand out from the crowd. The challenge is to not only match the puzzles pieces to each other, but also to the art around the edges. Blokus Blokus encourages creative thinking and has received a Mensa awar d for promoting healthy brain activity. The goal of this game is for players to fit all of their pieces onto the board. When placing a piece it may not lie adjacent to the player's other pieces, but must be placed touching at least one corner of their pieces already on the board. Othello An internationally acclaimed strategy game, Othello takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master. Simple enough for children, yet challenging for adults, it's great, fast-moving fun for the entire family. Choose to be black or white and strive to get the most discs flipped with your color face-up at the end of the game. White can turn to black and black can turn to white again and again in this constantly changing game.
Flinch Generation upon generation have enjoyed Flinch since it was first introduced in 1905. Now it's back, and better than ever, bringing with it fond memories of great fun. All you have to do to win is get rid of the 10 cards in your stockpile. You'll do this by playing them in numerical sequence--whenever possible--onto the play piles in the center of the table. Sounds simple, doesn't it'
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Sudoku The objective of a Sudoku game is to fill a 9x9 grid so that the numbers 1 through 9 occur exactly once in each row, column, and 3x3 box. http://www.websudoku.com/ Blik Blok Simply put... A building game created by an architect has our attention. Challenge YOUR inner architectural brilliance with Blik Blok. A spatial game designed to challenge even those with the highest skill levels in visual thinking! Is it a game? Is a puzzle? Whatever it is, all ages are drawn to it! Brain Box BrainBox This clever new memory recall game challenges players to memorize as many details as they can in just 10 short seconds! Turn the timer over, concentrate on the card and try to memorize as many details of the picture as you can. Players then roll the die to determine which question will be asked and quiz each other on what they remember. How many stripes on the shirt? What's the capital city? What is the name of the famous person shown? Criss Cross Puzzles The unique x-shaped wooden frame is what makes ChrissCross Puzzles stand out from the crowd. The challenge is to not only match the puzzles pieces to each other, but also to the art around the edges. Blokus Blokus encourages creative thinking and has received a Mensa awar d for promoting healthy brain activity. The goal of this game is for players to fit all of their pieces onto the board. When placing a piece it may not lie adjacent to the player's other pieces, but must be placed touching at least one corner of their pieces already on the board. Othello An internationally acclaimed strategy game, Othello takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master. Simple enough for children, yet challenging for adults, it's great, fast-moving fun for the entire family. Choose to be black or white and strive to get the most discs flipped with your color face-up at the end of the game. White can turn to black and black can turn to white again and again in this constantly changing game.
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Flinch Generation upon generation have enjoyed Flinch since it was first introduced in 1905. Now it's back, and better than ever, bringing with it fond memories of great fun. All you have to do to win is get rid of the 10 cards in your stockpile. You'll do this by playing them in numerical sequence--whenever possible--onto the play piles in the center of the table. Sounds simple, doesn't it'
Gobblet Multiple Award-Winning, Fun Game of Strategy. As easy as Tic-Tac-Toe, Gobblet can be learned in a few seconds and is fun to play again and again. Beautifully crafted, Gobblet is entirely made of wood and includes a great box with self-storage for all pieces. With irresistible fast moving play and astonishingly simple rules, Banana Grams Bananagrams is a fast and fun word game that requires no pencil, paper or board. All you need is a table. One hand can be played in as little as five minutes. It is a great for family fun as well as being educational. Bananagrams portability makes it perfect for travel. Just grab the pouch and go.
Apples to Apples Jr Apples to Apples Junior is the game of hilarious comparisons! Players will delight in the crazy comparisons while expanding their vocabulary and thinking skills. The 576 cards provide hours and hours of fun! The kids and junior card sets contain no duplicate cards. The sets may be combined for thousands of new comparisons.
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Sequence Play a card from your hand, place a chip on the corresponding space on the game board...when you have 5 in a row, it's a Sequence. Learn to block your opponents remove their chips. Watch out for the Jacks - THEY'RE WILD! With a little strategy and a little luck - you're a winner! Five Crowns Five Crowns is a fast paced ingenious rummy-like card game. Its double deck contains five suits (the stars are new), but it has no aces or twos. This unique deck gives you many more options for arranging your hand into sets and sequences. The challenge is to see them make the right combinations, be the first to go out, then watch the others scramble as they get one last chance to cut their losses. Five Crowns, with its beautiful cards, is easy to learn. It starts with three cards and 3's are wild. Rummikub Rummikub is played with a set of 106 elegant tiles that are as durable as they are easy to handle. Like Rummy, players build melds of run of the same colors - Red 7, Red 8 and Red 9 - or sets of the same numbers - Blue 8, Red 8 and Black 8. Quidler The challenge of Quiddler is to arrange your entire hand into words. Draw and discard in turn. Try to use those high point letters, but don't get caught with them uncombined! Quiddler is fast paced because you can play using everyday words. A bonus is given for the most words in each round (so little words can help you win), as well as for the longest word. Quiddler is a delightful challenge for both rookies and word game lovers. Quiddler is for up to eight players.
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