Games and Puzzles

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

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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Single player brain game for children age 6 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.

Claims to be the ultimate wood game - not sure if Scrabble would agree.

You have to race your opponents to make a word grid and be the first to use up all the letters.

1-7 players

7+ years  age suitability

Beautifully made brain teaser game for children aged 8 and upwards. This one's a favourite with the boys.

Place the knights on the board and then position the walls to protect the nice blue knights from the nasty red ones.  There are 80 challenges with the later ones being really quite hard.

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Single player brain game for children from 7 up.

Choose a challenge.  Place the walls and the explorer where indicated.  Escape the temple by sliding the walls around to find a way out.

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Single person brain teaser for anyone aged between 7 and 99.

Described as the ultimate solitaire; place the four magnetic base plates together to form your playing board and then try to position the twelve coloured pieces.  It's not always too easy.  There is a booklet with 60 challenges to get you going but any number of different challeges are possible.  Good luck.

Please have a look at the video for more details.

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Single person brain teaser game from Smart Games for children age 6 and upwards.

There are 60 challenges, ranging from easy to expert.  Place the cars where indicated and then work out where the other ones should be.  As you go through the booklet, you get less and less help. Unlike with many of the other Smart Games, I am proud to say that I have managed to complete the harder challenges.

The board is about 15cm across and comes with a lid, making it a great travel game.

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Single person brain game for children aged 4 to 7 with 48 challenges of varying difficulty.

Put Little Red Riding Hood, Grandma's House and the three trees on the board and then place the path pieces so that Little Red Riding Hood can get to the house.  In the harder puzzles, the wolf comes in and needs his own path to the house.

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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.

My favourite of all the excellent Smart Games.

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Test your logic by arranging the pieces so that the vegetarian dinosaurs are on different islands to the greedy meat-eating ones.

Single person puzzle game.

The booklet contains 80 challenges, each one showing a layout of islands that you have to recreate on the board.  As you go through the book, you get less and less help.  It is suitable for children from 6 up although younger ones may need a little help initially getting the hang of the concept.  I highly recommend it, not least because, in quiet moments in the shop, I have managed to complete all the puzzles which isn't the case for many of the other Smart Games.

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