Games and Puzzles

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.

SG021

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

Excellent little 3D brain game from Smart Games for children 6 years upwards.

Choose one of the 48 puzzles from the booklet and build the little car putting the four coloured pieces in the correct positions.  This is something we keep on the counter in the shop and we like to challenge children to do it. Normally they can do the easier ones quite quickly but the harder ones towards the back of the book cause a bit of head-scratching.

SG501

 

Magnetic travel game in a book format, held closed with a popper.

Choose one of the 48 challenges and then work out where to put the magnetic pieces.

In this game you have to place the three duck families in such a way that the ducklings follow their mothers.

Age Suitability: 6+ years old.

 

Shake up the letters.  Turn over the timer.  Try and find as many words as you can in 90 seconds.  Complicate it by only allowing words whose letter dice touch each other in the grid.

For one or more players.

Ages: 8 upwards if using the complicated rules.

Video explaining the complicated version of the instructions:

Yahtzee sounds like a traditional Chinese game but, in fact, it was first sold in 1956.  It is a dice game, in which you are allowed to throw five dice three times. You aim to achieve various combinations such as a full house or four of a kind.  You score each round and add up the scores at the end of the game to determine the winner.

2+ players.

Age suitability: 8+

Here is a useful video by 'Gather Together Games' from Youtube explaining the game: