Board Games
Spelling Bee - Level 1
Buzz around the bases and head to the honey hive with this ultimate vocabulary game
Vocabulary Builder
Words are the "weights" to this workout! A refreshing and truly enjoyable way to build vocabulary, this full-color board game takes learners on a "defining" mission. Players advance along the path by spinning the spinner and correctly defining words
Traverse
Chinese checkers gone wild! Either level of play - simple or advanced - strengthens students' observation and thinking skills. The first player to move all of their pieces from their starting row on one side of the board to their destination row on the other side is the winner! For 2-4 players.
Mensa Mind Games(SM) Hall of Fame
Obscurity
A board game for word lovers of all ages. It's part word search, part vocabulary challenge. Place a word search card on the game board, and ready, set, GO! Everyone races to find words, four letters minimum. Words may be formed in any direction as long as letters are touching. The first person to write down 10 words shouts, "Obscurity!" But be careful -- you must think fast and be smart or victory can slip away if other players have matching words. Players then use the word list on the back of the card to score their words. The first player to earn 60 points wins.
Zookeeper Nightmare
The ZANY ZOO puzzle game
It's a zookeeper's worst nightmare! One of the animals is loose! Your challenge in this puzzle activity game is to round up the runaway and "slide and guide" it back home. But that's no easy task in this zany zoo, where you can get tangled in a tail or stopped by a snout.
Zookeeper's Nightmare comes with a sturdy plastic Zoo Zone puzzle board, 12 realistic wild animal puzzle pieces, and a full-color Zookeeper's Manual with 18 mind-bending puzzles (beginner to advanced) PLUS instructions for making hundreds of your own puzzles! Round up your logical-thinking skills and get ready for hours of puzzle fun.
For 1 player.
HaChoo!
HaChoo! The Feel Better game!
HaChoo is an exciting new board game, designed to be both educational
and fun, with the emphasis on fun!
All players start out with fevers.The first one to reduce their fever back to normal
with the proper ingredients is the winner.
The excitement is generated in three ways:
- Players collect playing cards
- Players reduce their fevers on their own thermometer by discarding cards
- Players participate vocally when they land on special spaces!
HaChoo! will teach the basic principles of good health and can reduce the worry and questions about those first doctor's office visits.
Contains:
- 1 Game board
- 8 Game pieces
- Stack of HaChoo! game cards
Escapades
Escapades contains over 300 indoor and outdoor games, activities and adventures. Divided by category in a recipe-like box of fun, Escapades is full of imaginative ideas for everything from juvenile birthday parties, classrooms, retreats, picnics, vacations and evenings at home. All that is needed are the cards and a few simple props.
Monopoly: The Mega Edition
Bigger, Faster, Own It All and More! The same classic board we all know and love PLUS 9 new properties including 7 new states! In Monopoly: The Mega Edition, you'll be able to build skyscrapers after you've built your hotels AND the game will play faster thanks to the all new Speed Die!
Contents:
- Big quad-fold game board
- 32 houses, 12 hotels, 8 skyscrapers, 4 depots, tokens, 37 title deed cards, 16 chance cards, 16 community chest cards, 16 bus tickets, 2 dice, 1 speed die
- Pad of money (including new $1,000 bills)
- Banker's tray
- Full-color, illustrated rules/instructions
Jumble Board Game
You've played it in the newspaper for years...now compete against your friends and family with an added time twist. Let's see how well you can sucranablem under pressure!
Jumble is featured in over 600 papers daily, reaching over 30 million people. Jumble Word Spin has three difficulty levels. Each level is worth a different number of tokens and, in the end, the one with the most tokens wins! You can buy hints and extra time on the clock...but you'd better unscramble the puzzle in order to earn more tokens. Ready, Set, mjbelu!
Ages 8+
2-4 players
Parts of Speech Challenge
Parts of Speech Challenge by Remedia Publications helps players master the eight basic parts of speech plus verb phrases, prepositional phrases, articles and proper nouns. Players learn how the same word can represent different parts of speech based on how it is used in a sentence.
For example, if a player draws a card "1&" and reads sentence "B," "The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the world's longest suspension bridges totaling 8,981 feet.", that player would be required to identify "longest" as an adjective before completing the turn by placing a marker on any available "adjective" space on the game board grid. Answer keys are included.
As they move around the board, drawing cards and reading sentences, players identify the parts of speech of selected words. All words are used in sentence context for meaningful learning.
The Reference Sheet, included, allows players to familiarize themselves with the parts of speech. Younger players can use the reference sheet while playing the game.
The object of Parts of Speech Challenge is to cover the most spaces on the board before one player runs out of markers. The player with the highest score wins!
For 2 to 4 players or teams. Grade levels 4 through 8.
Contents:
Game Board
Game Cards
Transparent Markers
Instructions
Pawns and Die
Spelling Bee - Level 2
Buzz around the bases and head to the honey hive with this ultimate vocabulary game
Word Usage Speedway
The excitement of car racing enlivens this game as players whiz around the board gaining practice in word usage combinations! Players must complete a Qualify sentence and one or more Race Day sentences in order to place chips on the board. The first player to place 4 chips on the word grid in a row, column, diagonal, or square wins the game!
Example Race Day sentence: We built a doghouse ________ the tree in our backyard (by buy).
2-4 players.
Chameleon
The Towering Game of Stack Tactics
2-4 Players
It's the 3-D building game with a colorful twist. As players race to build towers using their Chameleon blocks, there's a surprise with every move-the Chameleon blocks magically change their colors! Place one block on a tower, and the block below changes color! You'll need skill and luck to correctly "predict" what colors will appear. Matching colors earns you another turn. If block colors don't match, dismantle the tower, block by block, and start from the ground up!
Grades K+ Ages 5+
GAMBIT Game
Gambit challenges you to turn nine rows of mixed-up tiles into single-color sets of five. Sounds easy, but if your opponent spots your strategy, he could slide you off track. Slide the last matching tile onto a row to complete the single color set and you score! Includes 1 game board, 2 sliding platforms, 14 score keepers, 35 playing tiles and instructions. For 2 players.
Hail to the Chief
An Aristoplay classic now updated! Hail to the Chief is a favorite of all afes. Questions are written on four levels of difficulty so kids and adults can match wits in the same game. 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 history and geography questions to win electoral votes and become President of the U.S. Includes over 600 questions.
Race for the White House
You don’t have to be a political junkie, consultant or pundit to love this game. You'll find yourself increasingly caught up in the excitement of a hard-fought presidential contest that goes down to the wire. Red states, blue states, swing states, they're all here. Find out what it feels like to be a politician forced to take positions that please and placate, but don't alienate the various constituencies necessary to reach the critical 270 electoral votes that win election. You'll be biting your nails until the final vote is counted.
Stock Market Tycoon
To become the Tycoon you need strategy, nerves of steel, and a bit of luck. The first player to win a million dollars is not always the winner. The surprise ending is what makes Stock Market Tycoon the most exciting and realistic stockmarket board game ever developed, not to mention a great investment.
The Whole Brain Game
It's not what you think, but how you think it. This fun, fast-paced interactive game challenges the mind, creates ourbursts of creativity and causes the player to "Think out of the Box". Plauers are challenged to take unlike words of situations and create similarities, as on playing example. It causes the players to spontaneously think and shout out responses to the questions rapidly to beat the clock. A mentally and intellectually stimulating, educational and fun game all at the same time! "Right brain" activity is stimulated as players generate ideas, use their imaginations, and work out patterns and relationships. At the same time, the "left brain" quickly structures responses using language, logic, sequences and details. Great for families, parties, schools and anyone that dares to think differently.
The Ungame
The leading family communications game. Players progress along the playing board as they answer questions such as, "What are the four most important things in your life?" and "What do you think life will be like in 100 years?" This non-competitive game can be a great ice-breaker or a serious exchange of thoughts, feelings and ideas.
Who What Where Jr.
Can you imagine Bill Gates sumo wrestling in a trailer park? How about Oprah Winfrey pole vaulting in the zoo or even Prince Charles performing ballet in Egypt? Who? What? Where? Is an outrageous new drawing game where everyone makes a scene... on paper that is. Players pull one card each from the Who? What? and Where? card decks and have approximately 5 minutes to draw their scene. Then players pass their drawings to the right and the other players attempt to guess who the drawing is about, what their doing and where they are. Each player gets to guess at every other players drawing by writing it down on their score sheet. And players don't need to guess the entire scene in order for the artist to score points. Identification of any one or two of the three components will give the artist a score. Not an artist? Not a problem! The worse your drawing is, the more fun the game can be! Game includes 120 Who Cards, 120 What cards, 120 Where cards, blank drawing pad, score sheets and instructions. For 3 or more players.
Ranked a Top 10 Coolest Game of 2003 from the Chicago Tribune and Best New Game of 2003 from the San Francisco Chronicle.
ABC Game
In Eric Carle's ABC Game, players spin the spinner and search for letter cards that match their space. The letters and corresponding animal cards are inspired by Eric Carle's ABC book.
This game introduces children to the alphabet by teaching them the difference between big and little (upper-case and lower-case) letters. Children also reinforce counting skills as they move around the board. It's easy to learn and fun to play for both children and adults.
Contains:
- Game Board
- 4 Playing PiecesSpinner
- 52 Animal Cards
- Instructions
For 2 to 4 players.
Ages 3 and up.
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Game
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed is a simple-to-learn game that introduces children to counting and strategy while developing fine motor skills. The object of the game is to get all of your monkeys onto the bed. Sounds easy? Well watch out, your monkeys may jump off the bed at any time. When they do, it's time to start over. Surprise, laughter and fun for kids and their parents. Comes with Game Board, Plastic Bed, 24 Monkeys, 20 Punch Out Tokens, Spinner Card and Game Instructions. For 2 or more players. Ages 3 & up.
Princess and the Pea
Princess & The Pea is an ideal game for any young princess!
Just like Hans Christian Anderson’s beloved fairy tale, this game allows players to add mattresses to
their bed as they move along the board. Build the highest bed and reach the "crown" space to be named the true
princess!
Contents:
- 32 stackable beds
- Sticker sheet
- Oversized purple die
- Game board and instructions
Based on the popular Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, "The Princess and the Pea."
Can't remember the whole story?
The Princess and the Pea story tells of a price who wants to marry a princess, but is having difficulty finding a suitable partner. Something is always wrong with those he meets, and he cannot be certain they are the real princess. One stormy night, a young woman drenched with rain seeks shelter in the prince's castle. She claims to be a princess, so the prince's mother decides to test their unexpected guest by placing a pea in the bed she is offered for the night, covered by 20 mattresses and 20 featherbeds. In the morning the guest tells her hosts that she endured a sleepless night, kept awake by something hard in the bed. The prince rejoices. Only a real princess would have the sensitivity to feel a pea through such a quantity of bedding. The two married, and the pea is placed in the Royal Museum.
Thank you to Wikipedia for reminding us of the story!
Dominoes
This favorite, classic game has been enhanced with a nostalgic flair. Each of these heirloom-quality, solid-wood games is painstakingly hand-crafted, self-stores all pieces, and is specially designed to hang on game-room walls or beautifully decorate any accent table! Detailed instructions included with each game.
Ages 6+
