Brainteasers

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.

North Pole Camouflage

Can you help these Arctic dwellers "hide in plain sight?" Use snow and ice to camouflage the polar bear and blue water to conceal the whale and fish! Arrange the six transparent puzzle pieces so that the animals are camouflaged in their correct environments, but watch out that the animals don't overlap the people! Game includes game board (with pull out drawer to store puzzle pieces and cards), 48 puzzle cards (with 4 levels of difficulty), 6 transparent puzzle pieces, and solution booklet. Game is for one player.

Maze Ways Cat and Mouse

Furry critters need help finding their way through a maze of possible paths in these brain-teasing, logical thinking puzzles. Solve each challenge by rearranging the 9 tiles to build connecting paths between the icons pictured on the challenge. There are 48 unique multi-level challenges and hundreds of puzzling possibilities. Includes game board with built-in storage compartment, maze booklet with puzzles and solutions.

Subtrax

It's a whole new twist on the classic favorite "peg solitaire" that challenges players in a whole new way. Patience, problem solving and puzzling skills are put to the test as players jump over a field of blue pegs, one-by-one, until only the orange peg is left.

Sound easy? Think again!

New diabolical solitaire game pattern defines which way a player can jump, increasing the level of difficulty. Challenges start simple then build in complexity as players develop their strategies. Guaranteed to keep players entertained for hours and improve sequential thinking skills.

Features:

• Game tray opens for handy storage of challenge cards and pegs
• 40 Beginner-to-Expert Challenge Cards
• 15 translucent pegs
• 14 blue pegs
• 1 orange peg
• New diabolical solitaire game pattern!

Ages 8 to adult.

Raging Rapids

Two Games in One and a Boatload of Fun!

Anyone who loves action-packed, mind-boggling challenges will go bonkers for the whitewater rafting adventure of a lifetime - the latest in a line of must-have brainteasing puzzles! Nonstop fun and games and serious suspense await players as they try to figure out how to get the 12 crew members back into their capsized raft - all facing the same direction. What's the catch? Crew can face bow or stern, but there is only one correct solution for each direction. Filled with unexpected twists and turns, this brand new brainteaser is sure to make a big splash thanks to its brain-twisting moves. Hours of fun are sure to be had by all who come aboard this exciting new rafting adventure. Two games in one; it's double the fun! Ages 8 to adult.

Safari UNDERCOVER

Get ready to embark on a jungle safari! In each brain-teasing logic game you must arrange the four jungle pieces on the animal-filled game board so that only specific animals remain "out in the open". Each challenge has hundreds of possible puzzle-piece combinations, but only one solution. Includes a game board that doubles as a storage case for the four puzzle pieces and a 48-page color game booklet with multi-level challenges, ranging from beginner to advanced. Game is for one player.

Tipover

You'll flip over TIPOVER, the three-dimensional mind challenging game that takes brainteasers to a colorful new level. The object of TIPOVER is to get your Tipper playing piece from Start to Finish by tipping crates to create paths. To start, set up crates of different colors and heights on the game grid to match any one of 40 Beginner-to-Expert card challenges. Next, tip over the crates to connect your Tipper to the red crate which is your final destination on the card. There's a catch; your Tipper can't jump over empty grid spaces. Only you control your fate by tipping over the right crate! TIPOVER, another fun, 40-challenge brainteaser from the makers of Rush Hour and River Crossing. Ages 8 to adult.

Cover Your Tracks

Cover the tracks to avoid being followed! In this high stakes, single player, spatial development game, kids must cover their tracks on a journey through mud, sand, snow and cement. As the game play progresses, it will get harder to cover all those tracks! Kids will have to step lightly if they hope to cover their trail.

Features:

• 20 Mind Challenge Cards with Solutions
• 4 Levels of Play, Beginner to Expert
• 4 Game Pieces (Red, Green, Orange, Blue)
• Game Tray
• Game-Go Bag
• Great travel toy

About ThinkFun

ThinkFun is the leading creator of mind challenging games. Since 1985, they have produced award-winners such as Rush Hour and River Crossing. Both kids and adults look to ThinkFun to make hands-on, thought-provoking games that provide hours of fun-filled challenges. ThinkFun is committed to high-quality, innovative products that help people of all ages exercise their thinking skills and learn through play.

Ages 8 to adult.

Rush Hour - Ultimate Collector's Edition

The Ultimate Traffic Jam Game

This coffee table version of the classic Rush Hour game is packed with 155 challenges spanning 5 levels: Beginner to Grand Master. Rush Hour Ultimate Collector's Edition comes complete with a raised game board, parking spaces for the cars and trucks, a billboard to hold the challenge being played, a storage drawer for all of the challenges and an exit ramp! The sleek, new look keeps players solving challenge after challenge in style.

Ages 8 years and up / Single Player
Learning Skills: Critical Thinking, Strategy Development, Sequential Reasoning

Features

• 5 Levels of Play, including Grand Master
• 155 Challenge Cards with Solutions
• 15 Metallic Cars and Trucks, 2 Escape Vehicles (Limo and Red Car)
• 1 Traffic Grid Game Board, Collector's Storage Box

Hopper Heroes

Improve your critical thinking, problem solving and strategy development skills!

Captain America Saves the Day!

In this riveting version of peg-solitaire, Captain America - the famous patriotic superhero, puts himself against the forces of evil. Players set up the game board according to pictures depicted on one of 40 challenge cards. Taking on the persona of the shield-bearing Captain America, they jump over various obstacles to become the last one standing. An attractive stars-and-stripes game board will appeal to Marvel Comics fans, and various levels of challenge will keep players engaged and entertained for hours.

Features:

• 4 Levels of Play
• 40 Challenge Cards with Solutions
• Captain America Game Piece
• 3 Different Obstacles
• Self-Contained Game Board with Storage Drawer
• Learning Skills: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Strategy Development

Measures 5.25" x 8" x 2.5"

Ages 8 to adult.

About ThinkFun

ThinkFun is the leading creator of mind challenging games. Since 1985, they have produced award-winners such as Rush Hour and River Crossing. Both kids and adults look to ThinkFun to make hands-on, thought-provoking games that provide hours of fun-filled challenges. ThinkFun is committed to high-quality, innovative products that help people of all ages exercise their thinking skills and learn through play.

Castle Logix

48 castle-building logic puzzles!
Construct castles, block by block and tower by tower, as you flex your logic muscles with this beautifully crafted 3-D wooden puzzle. The challenge is to assemble the wooden blocks and towers to build one of the castles in the puzzle booklet. With simple puzzles for inexperienced builders to complex puzzles that will challenge skilled architects, Castle Logix is designed to stretch a player's logical thinking skills and to develop spatial reasoning abilities.

Features:

• 48 logic puzzles
• Instructions, activity and solutions booklet
• Also includes simpler puzzles for inexperienced builders

Ages 6 to adult.

Rush Hour 4 Cards

This game pack features a new escape car — a bright yellow Taxi and 40 original traffic nightmares, including challenges at the GrandMaster level. Solutions are on the back of each card.

Brick by Brick

Brick by Brick puts players to the test by challenging their building skills as they create brick walls that match each challenge card. Sixty puzzle challenges help kids build confidence with each successful structure!

Features:

• 60 Mind Challenge Cards with Hints and Solutions
• 5 Brick Pieces
• Game-Go Bag
• Great travel toy

About ThinkFun

ThinkFun is the leading creator of mind challenging games. Since 1985, they have produced award-winners such as Rush Hour and River Crossing. Both kids and adults look to ThinkFun to make hands-on, thought-provoking games that provide hours of fun-filled challenges. ThinkFun is committed to high-quality, innovative products that help people of all ages exercise their thinking skills and learn through play.

Picture Play Puzzle

Toddlers will love this picture-perfect puzzler! Fun-to-flip pieces make the challenge of solving a puzzle an exciting experience.

WonderBrains currently has 2 varieties of this puzzle in stock. Both are pictured here. One puzzle makes three cute animal pictures; the other makes a fun family portrait. If you have a preference, then indicate your choice in the "special notes" area at checkout, or call us to place your order over the phone. Otherwise, please allow us to choose for you.

Rush Hour Traffic Jam Game

Challenge your sequential-thinking skills with Rush Hour!

Escape! That's the goal. Rush Hour is a premier sliding block game designed to challenge your sequential-thinking skills (and perhaps your traffic-officer aspirations as well).
THere are 40 challenge cards and four levels of play: beginner, intermediate, advanced, and expert.

There is only one exit. You must shift the blocking cars and trucks out of your way until the path is cleared to make good your escape. Once you begin to play, you can not pick up a blocking car or truck. Only sliding is allowed.

Start with Beginner challenges, and move up from there. By the time you hit Expert challenges you'll be ready for some of the meanest traffic unsnarling challenges ever imagined. If you find yourself hopelessly gridlocked, just dump the pieces out of the frame and start over. Ages 8 years and up.

Contents:

• 40 Beginner-to-Expert Challenge Cards
• Instructions and solutions booklet
• Travel Bag
• 4 Blocking Trucks
• 11 Blocking Cars
• 1 Fancy Car (that's YOU)
• 1 Traffic Grid

Ages 8 and up.

Rush Hour Junior

Help your child improve their sequential-thinking skills
with Rush Hour games!

Beep, beep! The traffic is terrible and the ice cream truck is stuck between the school bus, the jeep, the police car, and other vehicles. Can you help the driver break out of the gridlock before the ice cream starts to melt?

All new Rush Hour Jr. is the ideal game for kids ages 6-8, with all the delight of the original Rush Hour. Playful vehicles and simpler, age-appropriate challenges will amuse kids for hours.

Includes:

• 1 6" x 6" gameboard grid
• 16 playing pieces
• 40 challenge cards for littler kids

Ages 6 to 8 years.

Chocolate Fix

A Mouth-Watering Game of Logic

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 the cares before making a move. Once they discover where to put a chocolate piece, they combine this knowledge with the clues to learn more information. Some clues give exact possible locations, while others just give you the token color or shape. 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.

Learning Skills: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Deductive Reasoning

Features

• 4 Levels of Play, Beginner to Expert
• 40 Mind Challenge Cards with Solutions
• 9 Chocolate Pieces (Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate, and Raspberry)
• Ages 8 years and up
• Single Player
• Great travel toy

About ThinkFun

ThinkFun is the leading creator of mind challenging games. Since 1985, they have produced award-winners such as Rush Hour and River Crossing. Both kids and adults look to ThinkFun to make hands-on, thought-provoking games that provide hours of fun-filled challenges. ThinkFun is committed to high-quality, innovative products that help people of all ages exercise their thinking skills and learn through play.

Izzi

Challenging and beautiful, IZZI is never the same puzzle twice. Players try to match 64 black and white tiles side-to-side to build a square. An endless number of solutions; suggestions for harder games are included. An excellent addition to a math curriculum or a child's puzzle collection.

Helps children learn pattern-matching, fractions, and probabilities; play it solo or in teams.

Rush Hour Deluxe Edition

Get ready for bumper-to-bumper fun in this extreme Rush Hour adventure! Rush Hour Deluxe Edition was created for maximum performance -- with 60 challenges, including exciting levels of play from Beginner to Grand Master.

The flashy new design will help kids race out of gridlock in style, as they shift their fiery red car in overdrive to reach the finish line. Complete with a collector's storage box and built-in instructions for easy travel, this ultimate game of fun and strategy is guaranteed to satisfy the biggest Rush Hour fans. Rush Hour Deluxe Edition is a great way to help kids build essential learning skills through play. Start your engines and get behind the wheel!

Contents

• 15 cars and trucks
• 1 escape car
• 60 challenge cards
• game board
• collector's box

Ages 8 and up.

River Crossing

The Perilous Plank Puzzle by ThinkFun!

Can the Hiker cross the river without getting up close and personal with gators, snakes and piranha? Move the planks among the tree stumps to help our hero across! This innovative new brainteaser is as challenging as they come, and the jungle adventure theme makes it compelling to play. 40 Beginner-to-Expert challenge cards show where to place stumps and planks to start each game, and a magnet in our hiker's feet makes moving the planks a snap. Getting all the way across...that won't be so easy!

Features:

• 1 Peg board game frame, 1 magnetic hiker
• 40 Beginner-to-Expert challenge cards
• 20 tree stumps, 5 magnetic planks (2 short, 2 medium and 1 long)
• Instructions and solutions booklet, and a carry-all travel bag for easy storage and portability

Ages 8 to adult.

Railroad Rush Hour

Help your child improve their sequential-thinking skills with Rush Hour games!

A new "track" for the Rush Hour games! With a bigger game board, beautiful train cars, a striped travel bag, and 50 original challenges-including 10 Junior challenges for younger players, Railroad Rush Hour is a wonderful family gift or holiday game.

Includes:

• 1 7" x 7" gameboard grid
• 19 playing pieces, including 1 Speedy Red Locomotive (that's you!)
• 50 challenge cards, including 10 Junior challenges for younger players
• Instructions and solutions booklet
• Striped travel and storage bag

Ages 6 to adult.

Safari Rush Hour

Help your child improve their sequential-thinking skills
with Rush Hour games!

You re-crossing the African savannah on safari when suddenly, you're surrounded by wild animals. Can you navigate through the wilderness and make it safely back to camp?

In this exciting African adventure, your exit vehicle is a Safari Rover that can move side to side as well as forward and back, letting you navigate the entire playing grid to get out of danger. Richly detailed animals and game-within-a-game multiple levels of challenge make Safari Rush Hour an outstanding family play value.

Includes:

• 1 7" x 7" grid
• 19 playing pieces
• 50 challenge cards with solutions, from Beginner to Expert, including 10 junior challenges for kids ages 6-8
• Storage bag that holds the entire game and is great for when travelling!

Ages 6 years to adult.

River Crossing Junior

Challenge your sequential-thinking skills with ThinkFun games!

Now the junior version of River Crossing is here, and like the adult version, it's sure to be a hit. Youngsters will have a ball moving from plank to plank and rearranging their woodsy walkways between stumps to safely cross the lagoon without falling in...all while developing critical cognitive skills. Rescuing a cat that's stranded on a deserted island or securing a safe passageway across the water to meet up with a friend is a lot trickier than it sounds.

Hours of fun await young minds that love a challenge in this all-new Lagoon Adventure where sea turtles, manga rays, and octopi dart and dodge under goot. Makes a great came for car trips, too.

Contents

• 40 challenge cards, beginner to expert
• 2 hikers (boy and girl), 1 cat, 12 solid tree stumps, 2 hollow tree stumps, 5 planks
• Game grid
• Travel bag

Ages 6-8