Brain Games

Pocket-sized puzzle in which you have to work out where to put all the pieces.  Then you move the pegs to create a different playing field and a whole new challenge.

7cm across.  It comes in six different colours. We will pick one at random.  They are all the same.

Age suitability: 6 years plus.

Single person brain game in which you have to work out where to put each of the eight puzzle pieces. Teaches Concentration, Logic, Problem Solving, Spatial Insight, Visual perception.

1 compact game board with transparent lid, 8 puzzle pieces, 1 booklet with 120 challenges and solutions.

Age suitability: 6 years to adult.

Single player brain game for children age 6 upwards with a booklet of challenges that start easy and get harder and harder.

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Create a cube from the six interlocking pieces.

Comes as a flat piece of foam with six pre-cut pieces. Push the pieces out and then try to make a cube out of them.  Once you've done that, the next challenge is to make them fit back in the original flat frame.  You can also combine the sets to make other shapes.

Comes in four different difficulty levels and, within each level, in six different colours.  We will pick one colour at random.

Dimensions: 1 frame = 12 x 9 x 0,8 cm , 1 cube = 4 cm

Single player brain game for children age 8 upwards with a booklet of 120 challenges that start easy and get harder and harder.

Single player brain game for children age 6 upwards with a booklet of 120 challenges that start easy and get harder and harder.

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Single player brain game for children age 7 upwards with a booklet of 120 challenges that start easy and get harder and harder.

Every cat owner knows how cats can't resist climbing in boxes.  In this game though, you task is to move the puzzle pieces so that each cat is happily sitting in a box.

Single person brain teaser game for children age 7 and upwards (and shop-keepers when it's quiet in the shop).

Booklet with sixty challenges which start easy and get progressively hard and end up nigh impossible (for me at least).

Comes on a board about 15cm across with a lid, so makes a great travel game.

Age suitability: 7 years up to adult.

Small parts.

Test your brainpower by manoeuvring the squirrels around the board so that they drop the nuts in the holes.

Single player brain teaser game for children aged 6 onwards.  There is a booklet with 60 different challenges. The early ones are relatively straightforward but the harder ones will stretch many an adult.

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Fiendish brain game with an apple and five worms to fit inside.

Choose a challenge.  Place the first worms in the base of the apple where indicated and then work out where the remaining worms go so that the top of the apple fits on snugly. You need logic and lots of spatial insight.

Booklet with 80 challenges, starting easy then then getting harder.

Compact size so ideal as a travel game.  The apple is about 7 cm across.

Age suitability: 8+ years.

Single person brain teaser game for children age 7 and upwards (and shop-keepers when it's quiet in the shop).

Comes on a board about 15cm across with a lid, so makes a great travel game.

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Compact brain game with 120 challenges from easy to nearly impossible. In each challenge, you will be told where to put some of the bubble game pieces and then you have to work out where to put the rest.

You do get one clue though.  The bubbles come in two sizes as do the dimples in the game board, so you know you're wrong if you hope to place a big bubble into a small dimple.

Age suitability: 7 years to adult.

Magnetic travel game in which you use all your logic skills in which you place all the cards on the race course taking into account which cars will finish.

1 tin travel case that functions as a game board, 2 double-sided track cards, 8 magnetic puzzle pieces (6 with race cars, 2 with trees), challenge booklet with 48 challenges and solutions

Age suitability: 7 years plus.

Single person brain game in which you lay 5 pieces (sticks) horizontally and then the other five vertically but, of course, they only fit in certain ways.

Teaches problem-solving skills to children who can concentrate.

1 game board, 10 puzzle pieces (sticks), booklet with 120 challenges and solutions.

Age suitability: 7 years to adult.

Single person brain teaser game for children age 7 and upwards (and shop-keepers when it's quiet in the shop).

Get the rabbits back safely to their burrows by jumping over the mushrooms and foxes.

Comes on a board about 15cm across with a lid, so makes a great travel game.

Booklet with sixty challenges which start fairly easy but get harder and harder.  I have been unable to complete the book but it is still my favourite of all the excellent Smart Games.

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Single person brain teaser game for children age 5 and upwards (and shop-keepers when it's quiet in the shop).

Three hungry worms want to share an apple.

Choose one of the sixty challenges.  Twist the apple board so it matches the one shown in the challenge and then work out where to position the three bendy worms.

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Follow the clues to find the red diamond.

Single person brain game with 80 challenges.  You will be told where some of the gems lie and then, with the help of a clue or two from the challenge booklet, you have to work out where the remainder go.

Age suitability: 8 years upwards.

Everyone knows how to play the game mastermind. The Codemaker sets a four colour code and the Codebreaker has ten rows in which to crack it.

Age suitability: 8 years plus.

Challenging brain game for intelligent children aged ten years and up.

Our cube-shaped Viking hero is locked in a dungeon.  You have to roll him around the board, picking up the key and avoiding the obstacles before he can escape.

A 3-D magnetic travel game game in which you use your logic and deduction skills to place the ladybird families on the correct spots.

Metal box containing 12 magnetic ladybirds (5 red, 4 orange and 3 yellow), 48 challenges and solutions.

Age suitability: 6 years plus.

Single person brain teaser game for children age 7 and upwards (and shop-keepers when it's quiet in the shop).

Build an agility course by placing the obstacles around the board to enable the dog to get back to its trainer.

Comes on a board about 15cm across with a lid, so makes a great travel game.

60 challenges, start easy and get harder and harder.

Brain game for children age five and above in which you have to work out where to put which bird where.

There are 60 different challenges which get progressively harder and harder. In each challege you are given a few clues and then you have to work out where the remaining birds go.

Age suitability: 5 years and upwards.

Excellent logic game in which you build a marble run in such a way that the marbles end up exactly where the challenge says they should.

The booklet contains 80 challenges that get progressively harder as you move from Starter level through to Master level.

Age suitability: 8 years to adult.

Layer up the tiles so that the final result matches the picture in the challenge book

Single player brain teaser game for children aged 5 onwards.  There is a booklet with 100 different challenges.  The early ones are relatively straightforward but the harder ones will stretch many an adult.

Single person brain teaser game for children age 7 and upwards.

Choose one of the eighty challenges.  They start easy but get harder and harder as you work through the book.

You'll be told the outcome of the battle between the two pirate ships and the 4 navy ships, which side ends up being sunk and which victorious. Place the two rock pieces where indicated on the board and then work out where to place all the ships.  Each ship has canons on both sides, so if you place them side by side, both ships sink.  If you place them side on, just one will sink.

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A flipping good brain game for children aded four and up.

You have to arrange the beanstalk (and Jack and the giant) so that it looks like the picture in the challenge.  The problem is that you can only put the pieces in from the top and, as they fall, they flip over.  So you have to work out how to put the pieces in so that, when they land, they are facing the right direction.

Booklet with 60 different challenges which get progressively harder.

Age suitability: 4-7 years.