Puzzle Games
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.
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+
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.
Florina Arranging Game
Big, colorful wooden pieces await a toddler's imagination. Each of the pieces are painted with the green, red, pink and orange hues of a spring time garden. The design possibilities are endless! Use with or without the included wooden tray. Ages 2 years and up.
Contents:
- 32 beech wood blocks
- 1 wooden tray
- 1 sturdy cardboard box for storage
Dimensions:
- Wooden tray is approximately 10" x 10"
- Smallest wooden piece is approximately 1.5" x 2"
Made in Germany.
1001 Nights Magnetic Arranging Game
HABA's children's games are fun and educational!
Hop onto your magic carpet and get ready to be transported back to the 1001 Arabian nights! Designed after classic Arabic architecture, this beautiful magnetic mosaic set is sure to charm your little one into designing his or her own sultan's castle. The painted and bejeweled tiles can be arranged to create as many designs as your child can imagine! Set on a magnetic backdrop of a mystical desert night, 1001 Nights is sure to provide your child with hours of creative fun. Ages 3 and up.
Contents:
- 80 Wooden tiles
- Self-adhesive magnetic backing
- Magnetic frame
Dimensions:
- Board 13" x 10"
- Smallest Tile 1.5" x 0.5"
- Largest Tile 1.5" x 1.5"
Made in Germany.
A Great Day on the Farm Children's Book
HABA's children's books are fun and educational!
"A Great Day on the Farm" is a child's first picture and story book with puzzles and a dice game. There is so much to do on the farm! Today, Benny is going to be woken up very early in the morning by a crowing rooster. Then, he helps Aunt Ellie in the garden, goes to visit Uncle Willie in the field, and then he feeds the chickens with Adam. In the evening he is so tired that he falls into his bed! Wow, what a great day on the farm! Ages 3 years and up.
- For 2 to 4 players
Contents:
- 4 Wooden game pieces
- Cardboard book with 6 puzzles and 1 dice game
- Each page contains a part of the jigsaw. The 6 small jigsaw pieces together make a large picture with lots to see and discover!
Dimensions:
- 13" x 8"
Book made in China. Wooden game pieces made in Germany.
Tetris Game - Mini
Completely addictive, remarkably difficult, and deceptively simple...it's Tetris. The world's most popular video game is now a 3D cube with 9,839 solutions. We dare you to find just one! Almost doesn't count.
Tetris provides hours, days, and even weeks of non-stop fun and is the "granddaddy" of brain teasers! Available in Large and Mini, Tetris is sure to drive you wild! Great for promoting problem solving and spatial awareness, making learning fun and rewarding.
Ages 8+
1+ players
Trapture
The twisting, turning game of trap and capture!
Zigzag your way around the game board, making squiggly paths as you trap and capture ("trapture") little purple pegs. Surround a peg on four sides and it's yours - but all the while, you must prevent your opponent from doing the same. Choose carefully - don't get stuck with pieces you can't fit! Squiggle, strategize, and scheme to capture the most pegs. Includes Trapture game board, 24 vibrant, translucent "squiggles" pieces, and 13 translucent purple pegs. Great for all ages! For 2 players.
Grades 1 and up.
Color Scheme
Make Secondary Colors Your Primary Strategy! Color Scheme is a dazzling game of color-blending strategy. Players scheme and strategize as they slip primary-colored tiles into the swiveling tower, attempting to create a row of three secondary colors. But, watch out! Every tile drop presents new opportunities for success
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.
E-Z as ABC
Children love discovering the connection between letters and beginning sounds - a critical skill in learning to read!
Connect clever picture puzzles, flip them over, and match the upper and lower case letters. Next, become a "Sound Detective" and try to guess the secret object when players give beginning sound clues. Try scrambling the picture puzzles and use the engaging puzzle cut alphabet strip to sequence them in alphabetical order. Activities include completing the picture puzzles, matching initial sounds with photographs, sorting and matching upper and lower case letters, picture/word matching, alphabet sequencing, and more.
Features:
- 7 ways to play and learn!
- Games are sequenced developmentally so a 3 year old and a 7 year old can have fun playing.
- No reading required.
Contains:
- 52 puzzle pieces
- 26 word cards
- 26-word vocabulary list
- puzzle-cut alphabet strip
Grades Pre-K-2.
1-4 players.
Rumis
Grades 1 and up. There’ll be no stone left unturned in this challenging strategy game. Inspired by Incan architecture, RUMIS (meaning “stones”) sharpens spatial awareness and critical thinking skills as players strategize to outwit their opponents while reconstructing historical Incan structures (pyramid, tower, stairs, and wall). Each player receives eleven Rumis stones of one color. Players begin, one stone at a time, strategically placing their stones to prevent opponents from having the most visible colored stones. The player with the most stones visible from above wins! Rumis comes with four beautifully designed game boards, a unique custom turntable, 44 wooden Rumis “stones,” and instructions for variations on the game, including a habit-forming version of solitaire.
Come with Us! Learning Colors Children's Book
HABA's children's books are fun and educational!
The children and Tick, the big, floppy-eared bunny, look for the blue pony, the yellow cow, and more . . . Place the magnetic wooden figure on the matching picture. The figure will only stick to the correct spot on the page. Ages 2.5 years and up.
Features:
- Children learn colors and animals
- Cardboard book with 1 wooden game piece
Dimensions:
- Book is 5" x 5"
- Wooden game piece is approximately 2"
Book made in China, wooden game piece made in Germany.
At the Zoo with Alex Children's Book
HABA's children's books are fun and educational!
There's lots and lots to see at the zoo! Let's go on an adventure with Alex the Zookeeper to check on all the animals. Children learn facts about lions, elephants, monkeys, giraffes, and polar bears. This is a 3-in-1 book; non fiction picture-book to read and discover; 5 jigsaw puzzles; 1 dice game. Ages 2.5 years and up.
- For 2 to 4 players
Contents:
- 1 Cardboard book includes 5 puzzles and 1 dice game
- 2 Wooden game pieces
Dimensions:
- 8" x 6"
Book printed in China. Wooden game pieces made in Germany.
A Great Day at the Castle Children's Book
HABA's children's books are fun and educational!
"A Great Day at the Castle" is a child's first picture and story book with 6 puzzles and a dice game. Kevin and Nelly enjoy a great day at Ravenspot Castle where they visit the large Knights' Festival with their grandpa. The children see knights' armor, wells and even a fire eater! Can Kevin and Nelly also discover the ghost of Ravenspot? Ages 3 years and up.
- For 2 to 4 players
Contents:
- 4 Wooden game pieces
- 1 Cardboard book with 6 puzzles and 1 dice game
- Each page contains a part of the jigsaw. The 6 small jigsaw pieces together make a large picture with lots to see and discover!
Dimensions:
- 13" x 8"
Book printed in China. Wooden game pieces made in Germany.
Poppin' Puzzlers
Push the game boards down, set the time and you're off! Hurry to place the shape pieces correctly onto the board, one at a time. The first challenge is beating the timer. The ultimate challenge is beating your opponent, too!
- 40 shape playing pieces (built-in compartent holds all pieces)
- Game unit with built-in timer
- 2 storage cases
- Games rules
For 2 players
Ages 5 & up
Magnetic Pirate Puzzle
Contents:
- 12" x 12" double sided play surface
- 15 thick magnetic pieces
- large information poster
Come with Us! Learning Prepositions Children's Book
HABA's children's books are fun and educational!
Where is the hidden treasure? The children search for the treasure with the help of Pirate Joe and the magnetic monkey, Jack. When Jack sticks to the page, the children know they have found the spot described by Pirate Joe.
Children learn prepositions such as between, next to, behind, and more. A task is to be completed on every page. Place the magnetic wooden figure on the correct picture. The figure will stick only to the correct spot on the page. Ages 2.5 years and up.
Contents:
- 1 Cardboard book with 1 wooden game piece
Dimensions:
- Book is 5" x 5"
- Wooden game piece is approximately 2"
Book made in China, wooden game piece made in Germany.
Max and Mia Above the Clouds
HABA's children's books are fun and educational!
A perfect first fact book featuring five 6-piece animal jigsaw puzzles and a dice game. They'll soar above the clouds with Max in his airplane and Mia in her helicopter. What do they see from high above the clouds?
The pages have rounded corners and the pieces are just the right size for tiny hands. Ages 4 and up.
Features:
- 1 cardboard book containing 5 jigsaw puzzles
- 1 wooden die, 1 wooden airplane
Dimensions:
- 6" x 8"
Book made in China. Wooden game pieces made in Germany.
Alphabet Fun-to-Know Puzzle
Help your child learn early childhood subjects with Trend Enterprises Fun-to-Know Puzzles! Puzzles are a simple educational toy, but the benefits are that they are hands-on, self-checking activities that challenge young minds to figure things out on their own.
Now your child can learn their ABC's with the help of the Alphabet Fun-to-Know Puzzle! They will expand their vocabulary and learn uppercase and lowercase letters with the fun of a puzzle.
Features:
Early learning topics builds basic skills.
Photos on the cards connect to real life images!
Only the correct pieces fit together for independent learning.
Words underneath the pictures encourage beginning reading!
These puzzle pieces are sturdy and made to pass down to little bro or sis.
Puzzle pieces measure approximately 3" x 3".
There are 26 puzzles for a total of 52 sturdy, durable puzzle pieces.
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.
