Passport To Culture Game

Passport To Culture Game Review

Passport To Culture Game Feature

• Unique travel game where players circle the globe while testing their knowledge of world cultures
• Entertaining questions are of people, places, food and drink, gestures, customs and traditions
• Test your knowledge and learn fun new cultural facts
• 2-6 Players, 740 Questions, 60 Cultural scenarios
• Recommended for children 10 years and older.

Yes, this game tests your cultural IQ, but it's not just for anthropologists and world travelers! Try this question: What should you do before entering a home in Mali: a) whistle, b) knock on the door or c) clap your hands? Or this one: How many seasons are there in Bangladesh: 2, 4 or 6? You'll answer questions like these as you travel the continents, collecting passports as you go. First one around the world wins! It's a whole new way to take a globe-trotting adventure. The answers? c) Clap twice and c) 6. Game comes with game board, 370 question cards (with 740 questions), 30 culture cards, 6 play cards, 60 passport stamps, 18 answer cards, 6 playing pieces, a die, a score pad and instructions. For 2 to 6 players. Recommended for 10 years and older.

Scene It? Twilight Saga Deluxe

Scene It? Twilight Saga Deluxe Review

Scene It? Twilight Saga Deluxe Feature

• Exciting new game features content from all 3 films, including the summer 2010 release, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
• Experience the ultimate trivia game that features all new clips, trivia and on-screen puzzles from this blockbuster franchise
• Includes: Game DVD, Flextime Game Board, Shuffle Play feature, 4 Collectible Metal Tokens, 160 Trivia cards
• Also includes: 20 Buzz cards, 1 Six-Sided die, 1 Eight-Sided Die, Instruction Sheet, New Enhance Gameplay

Quench your thirst for trivia with Twilight Saga Scene It? Deluxe Edition. Recommended for ages 13 and older, this DVD trivia game features hundreds of questions about your favorite moments from all three Twilight movies. Scene It? also challenges you to use observation, memory, wordplay, and problem solving to decode special DVD puzzles. Designed for two or more players, this trivia game is ideal for both die-hard and casual Twilight fans.

Scene It? Twilight Saga Deluxe Edition Ages: 13 years and up Players: 2 or more Requires: DVD player; TV or Computer; Remote Control What We Think Fun factor: Durability: Ease of assembly: Novelty factor: The Good: Unique DVD puzzles and trivia appeal to Twilight fans of all levels. The Challenging: Limited target audience. In a Nutshell: An interactive DVD/board game made especially for Twilight fans.

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Test Your Knowledge of Twilight Trivia
From the game pieces to the trivia cards, every aspect of Twilight Saga Scene It? has been infused with Twilight passion. The game begins with players choosing one of four collectible tokens to represent their team. These sculpted-metal tokens represent some of the Twilight series' most iconic items: Bella's graduation cap, a sleek werewolf, the Volturi clock tower, and the Cullen family crest.

Teams advance around the board by completing two types of challenges: traditional trivia questions and DVD-based puzzles. The trivia cards ask questions with a wide range of difficulties. Some of the tougher questions are challenging enough to stump even the most devoted Twilight fans.

Players can also strategically use special Fate Cards to throw their opponents off course. A new game feature, Sketch It, Act It!, and Say It!, lets you relive key moments as you draw, act, and describe clues from all the Twilight movies. Be the first to complete the Twilightning Round, and you win.

Dazzling DVD Features Video Clips, Sound Bites, and Images
Twilight Saga Scene It? Deluxe Edition's main attraction, however, is the interactive DVD. Hosted by Dr. Carlisle Cullen (played by Peter Facinelli), this DVD is filled with hundreds of video clips, sound bites, and images from the three movies. When players draw a DVD challenge card, they must solve a video puzzle. Ranging from memory games to message decryptions, these puzzles will put your knowledge of Twilight to the test.

As a bonus feature, Twilight Saga Scene It? comes with a unique flextime game board that can be extended for a full-length game or folded into a circle for short play.

Fun for Every Level of Twilight Fan
Everything about the game has been adapted from the films, right down to the gothic font used for the menus. You'll see cameos of your favorite characters and relive classic moments from the films. Also included are several mini games, as well as a What Cullen Are You? quiz, so you can get a quick Twilight fix even when you're not playing the board game.

With hundreds of questions, Twilight Saga Scene It? has something for every type of Twilight fan. The difficulty is varied enough to keep everyone engaged--from diehard fanatics to casual viewers. Also, some of the video puzzles are completely self-contained, so even non-fans can participate in the game.

What's in the Box
DVD, game board, four collectible metal tokens, 160 trivia cards, 20 Fate cards, six-sided numbered die, eight-sided category die, four category reference cards, one reference card, and instruction sheet.

Whether you are with Team Edward or Team Jacob, you will love Scene It? - The Twilight Saga Deluxe Edition! Hosted by Twilight's Dr. Carlisle Cullen, Scene It? - The Twilight Saga Deluxe Edition features tons of clips, trivia questions, and on-screen puzzles from Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. You'll act, draw, and describe iconic Twilight Saga movie clues for even more ways to get into the action. With new mini-games and engaging group activities, you'll go beyond simple trivia and immerse yourself in the Twilight Saga!Contents Include: 1 Gameboard, 1 DVD, 160 Trivia Cards, 20 Fate Cards, 1 Category Die, 1 Numbered Die, 4 Collectible Tokens, 1 Reference Card and Instructions.Note: DVD player and TV required to play.Note: DVD player and TV required to play.

Rat-A-Tat-Cat

Rat-A-Tat-Cat Review

Rat-A-Tat-Cat Feature

• Children's card game that helps develop timing and basic mathematical concepts
• Teaches strategy, memory building, and addition
• Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Best Toy Award; Mensa 1996 Best New Mind Game Award
• Includes 54 rat, cat, and power cards
• For 2 to 6 players

It's never too early to develop a good poker face. With Rat-a-Tat Cat, a poker face is just one of the skills players need to perfect. As in poker, luck, skill, strategy, and intuition each play a part. Players are dealt four cards, which are kept face- down, except for a quick peek at two of them. Each player in turn pulls a card from the draw pile to replace one of the four. Memory is important, as the object is to end with the lowest score, and players must keep track of the values on their four cards. "Peek," "Swap," and "Draw Two" Power cards turn up occasionally, allowing players to maneuver and strategize further. Delightfully witty pictures of cats (the good guys--low points) and rats (bad guys--high points) illustrate each of the 54 cards. Young card sharks will develop a sense of timing and greater ease with numbers, and can begin to grasp the concept of probability. Winner of Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Best Toy Award and the 1996 Mensa Best New Mind Game. For 2 to 6 players. --Emilie Coulter A game of suspense, strategy, and anticipation. Get rid of the high cards (rats) and go for the low cards (cats). Sneak a peek, draw two, or swap cards for an added twist. Low score wins the game. (A poker face helps!) As children play Rat-a-tat Cat, they develop a sense of timing and an understanding of basic, but essential, mathematical concepts. They learn ways to remember their cards and strategies to figure out what cards other players might have. They also begin to develop an intuitive sense of probability. Rat-a-tat Cat requires skill, strategy, and awareness, challenging both young children and adults. enhances the following skills: * Math * Memory * 2 to 6 players * Playing time: about 20 minutes

Rory's Story Cubes - Actions

Rory's Story Cubes - Actions Review

Rory's Story Cubes - Actions Feature

• Let your imagination roll wild
• 9 cubes
• 54 images
• Over 10,000,000 different combinations
• Infinite stories!

Rory's Action Cubes! 54 dynamic action images - "picto-verbs" get minds in motion! Roll the dice & the creative problem solving, language learning, and story telling begins! "Once upon a time, a giant LAUGHED..." Rory's Action Cubes Dice featuring dynamic Action Verb images Creativity, problem solving, language learning & storytelling fun! Use Action Cubes alone or - with the creativity game - Rory's Story Cubes Includes 9 dice with 54 action images or "picto-verbs" Dice are precisely printed using dark blue, non-transferable ink

Totally Gross The Game

Totally Gross The Game Review

Totally Gross The Game Feature

• Winner of iParenting Media Award
• Engages kids to learn about the world of science
• Over 220 Science Questions and Activities
• 2 to 4 Players
• Ages 8 & Up

Want to help kids understand chemistry, biology and more?

Rory's Story Cubes

Rory's Story Cubes Review

Rory's Story Cubes Feature

• Rory's Story Cubes is a pocket-sized creative story generator, providing hours of imaginative play for all ages
• 1 or more players
• Reinforces artistic expression
• Ages 8 and up
• Playing time: 15 minutes

Rory's Story Cubes is a pocket-sized creative story generator, providing hours of imaginative play for all ages. There are infinite ways to play with Rory's Story Cubes - Try them as a party game or ice-breaker, for literacy development, speaking and listening skills, creative inspiration, a mental workout or problem solving. Anyone can become a great storyteller and there are no wrong answers. Simply roll the cubes and let the pictures spark your imagination.

Features:

• 1 or more players
• Reinforces artistic expression
• Ages 8 and up
• Playing time: 15 minutes

 

Monopoly Junior Edition

Monopoly Junior Edition Review

Monopoly Junior Edition Feature

• A child's first introduction to the world's most popular board game
• Kids set up ticket booths at boardwalk amusements to earn revenue
• Helps kids practice math skills -- add, subtract, multiply, and divide
• Whoever has the most money at the end of the game wins
• For 2 to 4 players

Just like its big brother, Monopoly Jr. is big-time fun for everyone! Spend a day at the amusement park. Ride the roller coaster, bumper cars, or Ferris wheel. How about a game of miniature golf or a visit to the haunted house? It's simple--set up ticket booths on as many boardwalk amusements as possible, then build your fortune collecting the entrance fees as other players land on your properties. If someone else already owns an amusement, you pay up. Watch out--if one player owns both amusements of the same color, you must pay them double! So have some fun. And don't forget--pass GO, collect . --Alison Golder Join Rich Uncle Pennybags for a day at the Boardwalk amusements. Set up ticket booths, then add, subtract and even multiply as you collect fees when other players land on your booths. Chance cards send you around the colorful carnival board: maybe you'll go to the fireworks - or pay to take the tramway to the restroom! Sooner or later, somebody will run out of money and the game ends. Count up your cash: if you've got the most, you win this junior game that's big fun! For 2 to 4 players. Game includes: game board, deck of 24 chance cards, 48 ticket booths, play money, die and four car movers. Packaging art may vary.

Quelf Board Game

Quelf Board Game Review

Quelf Board Game Feature

• 440 Cards (in 5 categories) *1 Pad of Paper *1 Die *1 Sand Timer *8 Character Game Pieces *1 Awesome Quelf Game Board *1 Player Guide
• Great Party Game
• Different Game Play Everytime!
• 3-8 Players
• Easy, Out of the Box Play

Quelf is the game that gives random a new name! Use your creativity and imagination to answer crazy questions and perform ridiculous stunts. There’s only one rule – OBEY THE CARD! If a player obeys their card they get to move ahead! You’ll laugh until you cry with this outrageous, unpredictable, and fun filled party game. Be the first person to cross the finish line and you win! Enjoy a non-stop hilarious adventure with Quelf!

Game of Life

Game of Life Review

Game of Life Feature

• Classic board game breaks down an entire lifespan into a series of choices and chance
• Earn valuable Life Tiles by doing good deeds
• Retire with the biggest fortune
• Winner of the CLASSIC Award by Parent's Choice Awards
• One of the most popular games in the Family game night category

Practice makes perfect in the game of Life. Try marriage, kids, and more. Will you go to college and take out student loans? Or join the working force and collect on payday? Will you go bankrupt, or earn millions in stock and real estate? Anything's possible with a spin of the Life wheel! A classic family game that can be a reality check--or just a fun time. --Margaret Quinn In this classic game of fortune, your goal is to dodge bad luck and make a buck. Along the way, you'll also earn valuable Life Tiles by doing good deeds, helping your community, or just taking a break from the rat race! Retire with the biggest fortune, and you'll win! Each space is a different adventure, so you'll get a whole new Life every time you play. What does Life have in store for you' Take a spin and find out! For 2 to 6 players. Game includes: game board, six plastic car pawns, plastic "people pegs", plastic mountains, spinner and bridge, MB money, 25 Life Tiles, deck of 36 cards, insurance policies, bank loans, label sheet and instruction sheet. Color of parts my vary.

Sequence Game

Sequence Game Review

Sequence Game Feature

• Easy enough for children, challenging for adults!
• Contents: Folding Game Board, Sequence Playing Cards, 135 Sequence Playing Chips, Game Instructions

With touches of canasta, rummy, and poker, this game could easily become a Friday-night favorite. The object is to get a "sequence," meaning a row of five poker-like chips on the game board. The board itself depicts lines of face-up playing cards. Players place their "crowning" chips on top of the card pictures, and can form sequences by using strategy and knowing which Sequence cards to keep or discard. Since forethought, luck, and backup plans are the keys to winning, this game is probably too sophisticated for children under 7 years old. (But young ones can team up with adults.) Included are 104 playing cards and 50 crowning chips in each color: red, blue, and green. --Gail Hudson It's fun, it's challenging, it's exciting, it's Sequence. Play a card from your hand, place a chip on a corresponding space on the game board when you have five in a row, it's a Sequence. Learn to block your opponents - remove their chips. Watch out for the Jacks, they are wild. With a little strategy and luck, you'll be a winner. Contents: Folding Game Board, 2 Decks of Sequence Cards, 135 Playing Chips and Instructions. For 2 or more players, ages 7 and up. Country of Origin: USA or Hong Kong or China.

Set

Set Review

Set Feature

• Easy to learn
• Tons of replay value
• Great family game, kids can compete with adults
• A classic game
• SET has become a classic game

SET is a card game of quick recognition and deduction. Each card contains one of three symbols (squiggles, diamonds, ovals) in varying numbers (up to three), colors (purple, green, red), and degrees of shading. A dealer arranges 12 cards, face up, and the players--without taking turns--hastily scrutinize the images for logical "sets" of three cards linked by combinations of sameness or difference. It's not as complicated as it sounds: examples include a trio of paired ovals with increasing levels of shading between cards, or disparate symbols in different colors which increase in number on each card (card one has a green squiggle, card two a pair of purple ovals, card three a trio of diamonds). The trick is to keep calm while trying to make the rapid connections. The Darwinian nature of the game (remember: everyone plays simultaneously) is certain to cause some feistiness among more competitive players. --Tom Keogh 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.

iMAgiNiff Game

iMAgiNiff Game Review

iMAgiNiff Game Feature

• More than 1 million sold
• Making people laugh for 10 years
• All new questions and new pick-a-player cards
• Colorful cards and dry-erase board
• A sure hit for any party or family gathering

That iMAgiNiff was developed by two brothers (in Australia) makes perfect sense, because this is a board game you'll want to share with family and friends. It's simple to play. A set of names is chosen, usually the name of every player plus those of several absent friends. When it's your turn, one name is selected as the subject of the question. You pick a card--one of hundreds--that poses a question and six possible answers (for example, "Imaginiff _____ were a crime. Which would he/she be?"). Read the question aloud, plugging in the subject's name. Then read out the six answers (in this case, they range from "homicide" to "indecent exposure"). Each player picks an answer to fit the subject; those who have picked the most popular answer move forward. But though you win by advancing, winning is obviously not the point: laughter and arguments are. The questions on the cards range from the ridiculous ("Imaginiff _____ were a body part.") to the provocative ("Imaginiff _____ had to decide which of the following values is most important."). The game is a fun cross between Scruples and True Colors. --Elisa Murray How well do you really know your family and friends? Imaginiff's questions ask what players think they know about each other, such as where a certain player would most like to go on a first date. The most popular answer becomes the winning one! This edition of Imaginiff contains all-new questions to maximize the fun. Buffalo Games. Ages: 12+