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Games & Puzzles

Games & Puzzles
Mind Challenging Fun!

Great for game night or a break from textbooks!
Learning made fun for all ages and abilities...

Educational toys and games, carefully selected by our educational experts, that make a difference in a child’s academic development, and that encourage families to spend quality time together. These high-quality educational games and toys are also great in a classroom environment.

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
~ Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

We sell toys and games that enable young people in elementary, middle, and high school to learn through creative, hands-on play. The goal is to make learning fun and to encourage families to play together. When kids have fun learning with their families, the benefits spill over into many areas of a family’s relationship while also promoting enjoyment, and thus retention, of academics.

Learning is Fun with our Brain Building and Mind Challenging Games & Toys!

Encourage higher level thinking and reasoning in a fun, family friendly atmosphere with educational games and toys that make Brain Building Fun! Children of all ages and abilities learn more when having fun, so have fun learning together as a family or in a classroom.

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Alphabet and Number Puzzles with Lessons
with Lesson Guide
Ages: 2 - 4
Teaches children letter names, shape recognition, and letter sounds. This durable puzzle set consitsts of three wooden puzzle boards (lower case letters, uppercase letters, and numbers 0-9) as well as lesson guide. Perfect for any toddler or preschool child!
$34.99
01901UJO
Animal Magnetic Tic Tac Twice
Ages 7 and Up, 2 Players
This Animal Magnetic version includes fun animal graphics and facts. Great for travel!
$7.99
TL805062
Blokus
Blokus is a strategy board game that challenges spatial thinking.
The original game, for 2 to 4 players, which has become a classic board game throughout the world. It is comprised of a square board containing 400 squares, and 84 pieces made up of small squares. Play it with your family or among friends: with Blokus® Classic you are guaranteed to have fun moments that challenge you and make you think. When it is played by four people, the game is very animated and the outcome is never certain! Played by two people (where each player has two colours), the game provides the opportunity for more strategic and careful thinking. The game is very simple to understand and to master and is the best product for beginners and for young players. It is also an ideal Christmas present.
$24.99
EI500
Blokus Travel Game
Blokus is a strategy board game that challenges spatial thinking.
The two-player Blokus - Travel Edition allows you take the award-winning Blokus game on the road! Players take turns laying their pieces on the grid board, with two simple rules: two pieces of the same color cannot touch along their sides, but they must must touch at the corners.
$19.95
EI086002029881
Blockus Trigon
Ages 5-99, 2-4 Players
Blokus is a strategy board game that challenges spatial thinking.
The Bermuda Triangle of strategy games! Players choose a color, then take turns placing Trigon pieces on the board. Pieces of the same color may touch only at the corners. Players can block each other ’s moves —or be blocked —at any moment! Place the most Trigon pieces on the board to win.
Regular price: $34.99
Sale price: $29.99
LR2970
Buzz Off !
Ages 4 and Up, 2 to 4 Players
A frolicking game of matching with a twist! Players roll the over-sized Fly Dice and then must be the first to swat a matching Fly Card. The player with the most Fly Cards at the end of the game wins. A fun way to learn and match colors with the use of Fly Swatter.
$16.00
TL308
Chocolate Fix - A Logical Deduction Game - Think Fun
Ages 8+ to Adult
You'll be tempted to take a bite out of these life-like candy play pieces in this delightful game of pure deductive reasoning. Similar to Sudoku, players examine all the clues on a challenge card before making a move. Once they discover where to put a piece, they combine this knowledge with additional clues to find out more information. Feel your confidence build as you narrow down the possibilities to fill each candy assortment. Challenges ranging from beginner to expert will feed your chocolate cravings for hours.
Awards: Learning® Magazine 2009 Teachers' Choice Award for the Family, Parents' Choice Gold Award, iParenting Media Greatest Products Award, TDmonthly Top Toy Award, NAPPA Honors Award, ASTRA Best Toys for Kids List, Kaboose.com Amazing Toy Award: Toys for Grade-schoolers
$17.99
TF-1530
Cover Your Tracks - Think Fun
Spatial Reasoning, Problem Solving, and Creative Thinking
Ages: 8 to Adult
Cover your tracks to avoid being followed! In this high stakes spatial development game, kids must cover their tracks on a journey through mud, sand, snow and cement. First, kids select one of challenge cards. Then they place all four pieces on the game tray to cover their tracks. As the game play gets more challenging, players will put their spatial development skills to the test on a journey across different terrains.
Awards: Parents’ Choice Silver Honor, iParenting Media’s Excellent Products Award, The National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval, Dr. Toy’s Best Products Resource Program Award
$16.99
TF3200
Ducks in a Row - The Quacky Strategy Game
Ages: 5 to 7, Two Players
This competitive board game is like a wacky version of checkers. Kids will giggle at the colorful beach board and plucky duck characters. After deciding whether they want to be the duck that surfs or the one that water skis, the two opponents face off, and try to be the first to line up four ducks in a row. Players can move up and down, side to side, and diagonally, but they can't jump themselves or their opponent. A fun strategy game, players have to pay attention to their opponent's moves, as well as their own.
Awards: Parents' Choice Silver Award, Canadian Toy Testing Council - 3-Star Rating, National Association for Gifted Children Holiday Educational Toy List
$11.99
TF-6000
Fraperdeck™ Original - Fraction/Decimal/Percent Math Card Game
Ages 7 and Up, 2 or more players
Fraperdeck Original is designed to encourage students to learn the relationship between fractions, decimals and percents. Fraperdeck has added a clever educational twist to commonly played games such as “War”, “Crazy 8” and more. This unique instructional format offers a FUN alternative to other methods. Conversion charts and instructions for 4 different games are included.
$6.95
TL6920
This item is currently out of stock!
Fraperdeck Multiplication
Ages 5 and Up, 2 or more players
This clever card game takes well-known games like War and Concentration to a whole new level with the simple addition of a multiplication table. Fraperdeck Multiplication reinforces multiplication facts from 0-12 with five exciting card games -instructions included. Students will sharpen their multiplication skills while having great FUN with this unique card game.
$6.95
TL6910
From The Gecko
Made in the U.S.A.
All Ages, For 2 to 6 players
If you love puzzles and games you will love From The Gecko™. From The Gecko™ is a unique speed math game that focuses the player on understanding numbers and making quick decisions. Fun for kids of all ages, even grown-ups! Kids will have a blast while learning and laughing. Will you be the first to build your gecko? Great for all ages.
$24.99
TL99990018
Fun With Colors (Bilingual)
Made in the U.S.A.
Ages 3 and up. 2 to 4 Players.
Parents and teachers created our products to be effective learning tools, which entertain and educate. The "Fun with™" series of products are designed to stimulate the language and learning skills in young children by introducing two languages seamlessly. Fun with Colors™ identifies primary and secondary colors, shapes and color association involving familiar objects. It is important to identify objects within each color and ask the child to repeat words and identify objects and colors. Bilingual: English - Spanish. Box set includes: DVD, workbook and game cards.
$24.99
TL99990012
Fun With Colors DVD
Fun With Colors identifies primary and secondary colors, shapes and objects associated with them. This builds learning intelligence and word usage in two languages. This DVD features English and Spanish.
$16.95
TL99990020
Fun with Numbers (Bilingual)
Bilingual: English - Spanish
Ages 4 and up, 2 to 4 players
Effective learning tool entertains and educates. Fun with Numbers helps a child learn to count from 1-20 in two languages. Teaches sequencing and associates a corresponding object with that number.
$24.99
Fun with Numbers (Bilingual) TL325
Fun With Numbers DVD
Fun With Numbers encourages development of multi-language, critical thinking, sequencing, verbalization, pronunciation and numberical understanding by identifying a familiar object in association with each number. This DVD features Spanish, French, Italian and English.
$16.95
TL99990021
GeoDerby USA
Ages 8 to Adult, 2 to 4 Players
A fun way for the whole family to learn the location of each of the states, their capital cities, and the location of mountains, rivers, seaports, etc. The game encourages players to look at the map in order to answer questions. Players do not have to be experts in geography to win. Everyone wins through better knowledge of our great country!
$24.95
TL-1500
The Great Word Race
Spelling Skills
Ages 6 and up, 2 to 4 players
Children of all ages will have fun challenging their spelling skills while playing The Great Word Race! You’ll never believe spelling can be such a blast.
Awards: National Parenting Center Seal of Approval, Parenting Magazine Top Toy of the Year
$24.99
The Great Word Race TL803
Green Alligators™: Rings & Things
Ages 4 and Up, 2 to 4 Players
Green Alligators is a wonderful little "I'm thinking of" card game, but this one has pictures so you can't change your mind part way through the game! Play with your little ones while doing other things around the house. Just take a look at your card and start giving clues. They will delight in trying to guess what your card is. Then it's your childs turn to give clues.
$9.99
TL306
Green Alligators: Zoo & Farm Animals (Bilingual)
Ages 4 and Up, 2 to 4 Players
The Giggly-Silly bilingual descriptive word game! No reading required! Pictures are identified to encourage early readers of both English and Spanish! Green Alligators is that wonderful little "I'm thinking of" kind of card game, but this one has pictures so you can't change your mind part way through the game!
$9.99
TL307
Hail to the Chief
Presidential Election Game
Ages 10 and Up, 2 to 4 Players
Players move around the outside of the board answering questions on presidents and the Constitution, as you become a candidate. Then travel from state to state on the campaign trail answering questions on US history and geography to win electoral votes. Learn how the election process works as well as fascinating historical and geographical facts.
Parents' Choice Awards, Media & Methods Excellence in Education Award
Regular price: $29.99
Sale price: $24.99
Hail to the Chief TL503
Herd Your Horses
Ages 8 and Up, 2 to 4 Players
Loaded with facts, adventures and beauty, our most popular award-winning game allows players to experience life as a ranch hand or as a member of a wild herd as they move along an adventure-filled game board. Included is a deck of beautifully designed horse cards each with the name, breed, color, markings and biography of a fictional horse. Includes a solitaire game for solo play.
$24.99
TL623
JabberJot
Improves creative writing and vocabulary, Encourages higher level thinking
Ages 10 to Adult

JabberJot is the hilarious word game where you create all kinds of wild tales. In each round, you race against the timer to jot out a wacky story using pictures and words that are different each time.
$29.99
JabberJot
Jelly Beans & Knock-Out Reversible Wooden Math Game
Reversible Wooden Math Board Game
Ages 4 - Adult
Side 1: JELLY BEANS
"A Child's First Math Game"
Ages 4 to 7, 1 to 2 Players
JELLY BEANS, our introductory game for young children, uses counting, number recognition, and very simple addition and subtraction in a progression of skills.
Side 2: Knock-Out
"Thinking Beyond the Obvious"
Ages 6 to Adult, 2 - 4 Players
Add three numbers together to make a total. Use your best critical thinking skills to break that total into smaller numbers. Use those numbers to knock your opponents off the board while capturing numbers for yourself!
$42.95
JBKO001
This item is currently out of stock!
Knock-Out  Wooden Math Board Game
"Thinking Beyond the Obvious"
Ages 6 to Adult
Add three numbers together to make a total. Use your best critical thinking skills to break that total into smaller numbers. Use those numbers to knock your opponents off the board while capturing numbers for yourself!
Regular price: $32.95
Sale price: $31.95
KOW001
This item is currently out of stock!
Math Animals
Ages 5 and Up, 2 to 4 Players
Teaches and reinforces addition, subtraction or multiplication skills for children for all ages. With the roll of a die, players race around the colorful game board trying to land their playing piece on the animal that represents the highest number and reach their "goal" total. With more than 6 variations of game play, MathAnimals will continue to stimulate learning and grow with your child for years to come.
Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products, Dr. Toy 10 Best Educational Products, iParenting Media Outstanding Products, National Association for Gifted Children Holiday Educational Toy List, Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award, The National Parenting Center Seal of Approval
$21.99
Math Animals TL801
Muggins Wooden Math Board Game
"Analytical Aerobics for the Mind"
Ages 8 to Adult
Add, subtract, multiply, and/or divide three numbers together in any combination. Select the answer that builds your marble color into a run OR blocks your opponent’s run. Use all your cunning, skill, and luck to out-wit & out-bluff your opponents. From the casual to the highly competitive game enthusiast, MUGGINS!, with its multi-leveled play, is the perfect game to challenge both the individual and the entire family!
Regular price: $32.95
Sale price: $31.95
MGW001
This item is currently out of stock!
OPPS! Pre-Algebra Wooden Math Game
"The Pre-Algebra Game of Opposites"
Ages 12 to Einstein
Although the method of playing the game is similar to our most popular game, MUGGINS!, the skill level jumps even higher as players must add, subtract, multiply, and/or divide positive and negative numbers to build runs on the board. OPPS! may be played on four different levels from pre-algebra to Einstein!
Regular price: $32.95
Sale price: $31.95
OPP001
Pet Detectives
Encourages Higher Level Thinking and Math Skills
Ages 7 to Adult

Dozens of pets have been lost. Race against other pet detectives to find them! When you match a Lost Pet Card to a Found Pet Card, you have found the pet and win the reward money. Be the detective to find the most lost pets by the end of the game and you win!
$14.99
PetDetBx
Picture This
Hilarious, Habit-Forming Picture-Word Game!
Ages 12 and Up, 2 teams of 2 or more
Teams of 2 players or more compete to gain points in 3 fun-filled rounds by guessing Picture Words. Think quick because your team only has 45 seconds to get the answer! The first team to gain the most points and advance to the end of the game board is the winner!
$24.99
Picture This TL1535
Pirate's Gold
Sequential Reasoning, Multi-Challenge Strategy Game
Ages: 8 to Adult, Single Player
This sequential reasoning game requires you to think and plan several steps ahead, like an expert chess player. The red-cloaked, wooden-legged pirate confronts a variety of obstacles on his quest for the lost treasure. He can't jump, but must move up and down the black game grid, negotiating fixed pieces and mobile directional chips to reach the exit gate with his treasure intact.
$19.99
Pirate's Gold TF-PIR
PIRATES 'n PLUNDER & SINK the SHIP - REVERSIBLE Muggins Math Wooden Game Board
Ages 11 to Adult
Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying and Dividing Fractions for Fun!
Reversible Wooden Game Board - Two Great Games at one Great Price
Pirates 'n Plunder "Adding & Subtracting Fractions for Fun!" on one side and Sink the Ship "Multiplying & Dividing Fractions for Fun!" on the other side.
$42.95
OFG-PPSS
The Play's the Thing
Dramatic Introduction to Shakespeare
Ages 8 and Up, 2 to 6 Players
Don't just play this game...perform it. Besides learning the characters, plots and quotations from Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar, players will experience the stage mishaps and the much anticipated reviews!
$34.99
The Play's the Thing TL413
This item is currently out of stock!
The Play's the Thing Comedy Set
Companion Card Set for The Play's the Thing
Ages: 8 and up
As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and A Midsummers Night’s Dream. These were three of Shakespeare’s most lively comedies and are the featured works in this companion card set to The Play’s The Thing. Each set allow you to dash and duel around the Globe Theater board, while bringing the characters, the words and the plots of Shakespeare to life in a fun, engaging way.
$11.99
The Play's the Thing Comedy Set TL413-2
River Crossing
Multi-Challenge Strategy Game
Ages: 8 to Adult, Single Player
The journey home is a perilous one in this best selling strategy game. The object is to get the fearless backpacker safely across the alligator and piranha infested lagoon by moving the planks between stumps. With an imaginative game design and varying levels of difficulty, River Crossing offers hours of adventure.
Awards: Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award, Dr. Toy’s Best Children’s Vacation Product, Games Magazine, Parents' Choice Holiday Guide, National Parenting Center Seal of Approval, Parenting for High Potential Holiday Toy List, Parents' Choice Gold Award, and more.
$17.99
River Crossing TF7020
River Crossing Jr. - The Perilous Plank Puzzle
Multi-Challenge Strategy Game
Ages 6-8
Now players as young as six can join in River Crossing fun. In this lagoon adventure version players must make it across the lagoon by moving planks to form a bridge to the other side. But be careful, there are mysterious sea creatures lurking underneath!
Awards: The National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval, The National Parenting Publications -Honors Award, iParenting Media’s Excellent Products Award
$17.99
TF-7040
Rush Hour
Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Strategy Development
Ages: 8 to Adult, Single Player

Escape the gridlock with this world renowned sequential movement game. Players set up the game board according to pictures of traffic jams displayed on different challenge cards, then slide blocking cars and trucks out of the way to create a path of escape through the congestion. A multi award winner, Rush Hour provides hours of fun, as players progress at their own pace, tackling higher and higher levels of difficulty.
Rush Hour was voted one of the "TOP 25 TOYS OF THE PAST 25 YEARS" by Parent's Choice Magazine.
Other Awards: ASTRA Best Toy for Kids List, T.O.T.Y. Nominee - Game of the Year Category, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio’s Gold Seal AwardDr. Toy's Best Classic Products, Grandparents Magazine Top Games, PlayDate Best Selling Games List, Consumer Reports Gift Guide - Named A Top 3 Game, Child Magazine Child’s Choice, Learning Magazine Teachers’ Choice Award, and many more...
$19.99
TF5000
Rush Hour Jr. - Traffic Jam Strategy Game
Ages: 6 to 8, Single Player
With Rush Hour Junior, younger players can experience the fun and challenge of Rush Hour in this exciting junior version. After setting up their game board according to pictures on various challenge cards, players steer their ice cream truck through a jumble of blocking cars, trucks and buses. A playful theme and 40 age-appropriate challenges will keep even the most restless child captivated for hours.
Parents Choice Gold Award Winner, National Parenting Publications Honors Award
$17.99
TF-5040
Safari Rush Hour
Problem Solving and Strategy Skills
Ages: 6 to Adult, Single Player
Feel the rumble of the herd in this exciting safari adventure. Players try to maneuver their Rover through a safari of wild animals, including zebras, lions, and rhinos. Fifty different challenges offer hours of engaging play, problem-solving, and strategy skills.
Awards: The Lion & the Lamb Project, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award, Parent's Choice Approved Winner, National Parenting Publications Honors Award, Child Magazine's Toys 2000 The Best and the Brightest
$19.99
Safari Rush Hour TF4100
Serpentiles
Ages: 8 to Adult, Single Player
The winding path in this spatial visualization game must begin and end at the same place, creating a continuous, unbroken path. Using the challenge cards, players select the appropriate tiles, then begin to line them up, green against green and blue against blue. Simple enough, right? Not so fast! This game has some major twists and turns.
$14.99
TF5960
Take Four™ Word Game
$27.95
LR0332
TipOver
Multi-Challenge Strategy Game, Spatial Relationships, Cause and Effect
Ages: 8 to Adult, Single Player
Fans of Rush Hour will enjoy the leap from linear to 3-dimensional in this dramatic crate game. Conceptual and strategic, TIPOVER introduces players to spatial relationships and the laws of cause and effect.
Awards: Games Magazine Best in Puzzle Category, Toy of the Year Nominee Specialty Toy of the Year Category, Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/Smart Toy Children’s Products
$16.99
TipOver TF-TIP
Top This!
Ages 8 to Adult
You'll be challenged and delighted in this game that confounds your ability to visualize and match patterns. Game cards specify different orange and blue puzzle shapes. You must create are excellent for helping kids develop spatial identical shapes by stacking orange pieces on top of blue pieces, or vice versa. How difficult can it be? This surprisingly tricky game will have you slapping your forehead in happy exasperation. Intermediate and expert levels offer more challenging fun with greater numbers of game pieces.
$14.99
TF5970
Trailblazer
Ages 8 and Up, 2 to 6 Players
Trailblazer is a rich U.S. history game that challenges your understanding of the American past while you blaze a trail across the country. By correctly answering questions about our diverse history from the pre-colonial period to the present, players advance across the map, accumulate Treasure Cards and risk their fortunes in a variety of adventures.
Awards: Creative Child Magazine Preferred Seal of Excellence
$29.99
Trailblazer TL505
Learning Wrap Ups Science Intro Set: Chemistry, Physics, Geology, Astronomy, and Life Science
Science wrap ups kit contains 5 sets and covers 600 key pieces of information for chemistry, astronomy, life science, geology, and physics to help students master the basic concepts of science. Specific information covered includes: chemical names, components, and properties, planets, constellations, and historical firsts, life cycles, circulatory, digestive and nervous systems, fossils, land forms, volcanoes, physical laws and symbols, and related units of measurement. Learning Wrap-Ups are a Fun, Hands-On, Multi-Sensory Approach to Science.
Regular price: $49.99
Sale price: $44.99
LWU-K861
Noah's Ark Go Fish Card Game
Noah's Ark Go Fish Card Game
$5.99
AA8001
Christmas Go Fish Card Game
Christmas Go Fish Card Game
$5.99
AA8004
Bible ABC Matching Game (30 pairs)
Bible ABC Matching Game (30 pairs)
$14.99
AA3107
In a Manger Matching Game (12 pairs)
In a Manger Matching Game (12 pairs)
$10.99
AA3307
Two by Two Matching Game <br>(12 pairs)
Two by Two Matching Game
(12 pairs)
$10.99
AA3207
Noah's ABC Stacking Blocks - 10 Nesting Blocks
Noah's ABC Stacking Blocks - 10 Nesting Blocks
Regular price: $19.99
Sale price: $16.99
AA61507
Blocks, Cubes, Tangrams, Pattern & Shapes Attribute Blocks
Linking Cubes
Pattern Blocks
Math Activity Sets & ManipulativesKindergarten Math Activity Set
Learning Wrap Ups Math
Magnetic Fun™ 1-2-3 Number Fun
Meteor Math® Bingo Game: Addition & Subtraction Classroom Set
Basic Fraction Activity Flashcards
Connecting Cuisenaire® Rods Fractions & Decimals Classroom Kit
Fraction Tower® Activity Cards for Equivalency Cubes
Exploring with Power Polygons™
Cuisenaire® Rod Multiplication & Division Activity Cards
Cuisenaire® Rod Fractions & Decimals Activity Cards
Fractions in Action™ Activity Book
Magnetic Math Tiles: Kindergarten Math
Tabletop Pocket Chart Card Set: Addition & Subtraction Cards
Mathematics
Clockwise Activity Book
Time & Money Activity Set
Magnetic Time Teacher
Tabletop Pocket Chart Card Set: Time Cards
Backyard Bugs™ Pattern Cards
Fold-Up Flash Cards: Verb Tense
Table Top Pocket Chart with Beginning Sounds
Tabletop Pocket Chart
Tabletop Pocket Chart Card Set: Time Cards
Tabletop Pocket Chart Card Set: Addition & Subtraction Cards
Table Top Pocket Chart with Beginning Sounds
Learning Wrap Ups Science Intro Set: Chemistry, Physics, Geology, Astronomy, and Life Science

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