Blokus Classic

From Mattel

Winner of several awards including Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum, Dr. Toy, and Parents’ Choice Gold Award, Blokus is a captivating game of strategy. Each player has a selection of differently shaped pieces. The objective is to put more of your pieces on the board than anyone else while making sure their corners touch. The game takes less than a minute to learn but provides hours of challenging fun (each game takes 20-30 mins.). Set includes game board with 400 recessed squares to hold pieces, 84 game pieces in 4 bright colors, and instruction guide. For 2 to 4 players, ages 5 years and up. Imported.

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Five Crowns

From SET Enterprises Inc.

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. The next hand has four cards and 4’s are wild, and so on. You’ll need luck and skill throughout the game because even in the last hand a worthy opponent can come from behind and win. Remember, “the game isn’t over ’til the Kings go wild!” Five Crowns is for up to 2 to 7 players.

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ThinkFun Zingo

From ThinkFun

A fast-paced, simple variant of Bingo. Players try to fill their image cards with matching tiles from the “Zingo Master”; first player to fill his/her card wins! Rules can be adjusted to favor more or less competition among players, and to vary length of time that each game takes to play. Zingo teaches shape and pattern recognition, as well as observation, and short-term memory. Ages 4 to adult Ages: 4 and Up

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IlluStory Make Your Own Story Kit

From Creations by You

Imagine your child’s face when she or he sees their own story and drawings made into a professionally typeset, hardbound book! With this multi – award winning kit, you simply have your child write and illustrate their story using the materials supplied in the kit, which are then mailed in (in the pre-paid envelope provided) for publication. You’ll soon receive a beautiful, professionally typset, 12 page, 7″ x 9″ hardcover book, complete with an “about the author page”, title and dedication pages and your little author’s name, title and drawing laminated on the cover. Extras books are optional and make great gifts for grandparents. Winner of Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award, Parents’ Choice Classic Award, Family Life’s Best Learning Toy Award and Dr. Toy Best Toy-Classic Award.

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SET Game

From SET Enterprises Inc.

This award winning card game is for one or more players. It is recommended for ages six and above. The object of the game is to identify “sets” of three cards. Each card is unique in its four features; color – red, green or purple, symbol – diamond, squiggle or oval, shading – solid, striped or open, and number – 1, 2 or 3. A “set” consists of three cards on which each feature is either the same on all of the cards, or different on all of the cards. This game contains complete instructions for play, 81 cards, and a durable plastic carrying case.

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