Perplexus Maze Game by PlaSmart, Inc.

Perplexus Maze Game by PlaSmart, Inc. Review

Perplexus Maze Game by PlaSmart, Inc. Feature

• A maze game where players must maneuver a small marble around challenging barriers inside a transparent sphere
• Provides a three dimensional experience
• Shift, flip, and twist the sphere to guide the marble
• Entertaining, educational, and great for fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination
• No set-up, clean-up or batteries

Flip, twist, and spin your way through the Perplexus Maze Game from PlaSmart. This Perplexus Original is a bendy, trendy, can't-put-it-down challenge! With plenty of twists, turns, and barriers between start and finish, it will leave you perplexed. Once you try it, you won't be able to put it down!

Perplexus Maze Game

• Ages: Six years and up
• Requires: Ready to play

At a Glance:

• Flip, twist, and spin your way through the Perplexus Original Maze
• The maze and its obstacles are easy to play, but hard to master
• Race against yourself, your friends, and the clock
• Includes a super spiral, a tightrope, and a swing arm
• Features 3 different puzzles and 100 challenging barriers

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Easy to Play, Hard to Master

The Perplexus Original Maze Game is a clear sphere filled with multicolored pathways covering different areas of the sphere's interior. A small metal ball rolls around on the inside, and it's your job to guide that ball through the maze to its end. Once the ball is balanced in its starting position, it's easy to start rolling it around the tracks. By the time you've learned the different passageways, you'll realize that even though it's easy to play, all the different ways of moving around are hard to master!

Flip, Twist, and Spin Your Way through the Maze

Moving through the different pathways is a wacky exercise in spatial reasoning and stimulates your cognitive reasoning. As you move the ball along one track, you find that it's never long before you reach a different colored track that requires you to flip, twist, and spin the sphere 90 degrees one way or another to keep the ball rolling. Twist around corners, flip from the yellow to the orange ramp, spin around the various curves--if you fall off the track, just get back on and try again!

Race Yourself, Your Friends, and the Clock

If you work hard enough and make it to the end of the maze, congratulate yourself, and then turn it into a racetrack! Keep track of your personal best times and race against the clock. You can also race against your friends' times, or stage races with multiple Perplexus Mazes!

3 Races and 100 Challenging Barriers to Master

The Perplexus Maze Game includes a super spiral, a tightrope, and a swing arm to form 3 different puzzles and 100 challenging barriers to discover and overcome. Share it with your friends and family as you try to uncover all the patterns and obstacles, but be careful--Perplexus Original is so addicting that once you let it go, you might not get it back!

What's in the Box

Perplexus maze and stand.

The 3-D puzzle maze you can't put down! -- It may look like a transparent sphere amusement park for marbles, but this self-contained puzzle ball is a challenging maze for all ages. -- Flip, twist, and spin the Perplexus, attempting to move a ball along the numbered paths, while you work with and against the forces of gravity. -- There's 100 barriers for you to conquer with this game that's easy to play, but hard to master! If your ball falls off the track, just try again. -- Recommended Ages 6-106.

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.

Forbidden Island

Forbidden Island Review

Forbidden Island Feature

• 2010 Mensa Favorite Brainy Games Winner
• Join a team of fearless adventurers on a do-or-die mission to capture four sacred treasures from the ruins of this perilous paradise
• 2 to 4 players
• Strategic thinking, problem solving and cooperation required
• Ages 10 and up
• Playing time: 30 minutes

You and your team can be the first to breach the borders of the Archeans' ancient mystical empire in the collaborative card game Forbidden Island, by Gamewright. In this game, teamwork proves essential to locate the Earth Stone, the Statue of the Wind, the Crystal of Fire, and the Ocean's Chalice as the Island floods beneath your feet. Adventure... if you dare!

Mega T-Rex

• Ages: Ten and up
• Requires: Two to four players

At a Glance:

• Be the first team to breach the borders of the Archeans' ancient mystical empire
• Locate the Earth Stone, the Statue of the Wind, the Crystal of Fire, and the Ocean's Chalice before the Island sinks
• Find the treasures through collaborative play and teamwork
• Stimulates problem-solving and strategic skills

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Work collaboratively with two to four players to locate the treasure.
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The Legend of the Archeans

This game is centered on the legend of the Archean empire, a civilization that possessed the ability to control the Earth's core elements--fire, wind, water, and earth--through four sacred treasures. These treasures stayed hidden from enemies for years on the Forbidden Island, which was designed to sink if intruders ever attempted to capture them. Set the appropriate water level for your gaming skill, and let the adventures begin!

Capture the Four Sacred Treasures Before the Island Sinks!

Your team of adventurers must work together to keep the Forbidden Island from sinking as you seek the four treasures hidden within. The mission is carried out using different combinations of Flood, Treasure, and Adventurer Cards on the 24 tiles that make up the Forbidden Island. Once you've captured each treasure using the appropriate cards, you must make it to Fools' Landing and escape by helicopter in order to win. If the island sinks before you complete your tasks, the mission ends in defeat.

Use Collaborative Play to Succeed

Each player is dealt an Adventure Card and given a corresponding pawn before the game starts, designating him or her with a certain set of strengths. This game is designed so that instead of competing with other players, you work to find the treasures and find out how to best use each Adventurer's strengths through collaborative play. This stimulates problem-solving and strategy skills.

What's in the Box

Water level marker, water meter, 58 playing cards, 24 island tiles, 6 pawns, 4 treasure figurines, rules of play, Gamewright catalog, and comment card.

Dare to discover Forbidden Island! Join a team of fearless adventurers on a do-or-die mission to capture four sacred treasures from the ruins of this perilous paradise. Your team will have to work together and make some pulse-pounding maneuvers, as the island will sink beneath every step! Race to collect the treasures and make a triumphant escape before you are swallowed into the watery abyss! The latest creation by cooperative game master, Matt Leacock who created the best seller Pandemic.

Zombies!!! 4 The End 2nd Edition

Zombies!!! 4 The End 2nd Edition Review

Zombies!!! 4 The End 2nd Edition Feature

• For 2 to 6 players
• 60 minutes of play time
• 30 new map tiles and 50 event cards
• 100 plastic zombie dogs and 6 humans
• life and ammunition tokens

Featuring new art and updated rules! In this stand-alone expansion for Zombies!!!, players attempt to successfully undo the spell that is making the dead rise by collecting as many pages from the Book of the Undead and make it back to the cabin to perform the ritual - that is, before the always-hungry pack of zombie dogs hunt you down! Zombies!!! 4 comes complete with 30 map tiles, a 50-card event deck, six player tokens, and life and ammunition counters.

Arizona Cardinals Tabletop Football Game

Arizona Cardinals Tabletop Football Game Review

Arizona Cardinals Tabletop Football Game Feature

• NFL tabletop football game with Arizona cardinals logo imprinted on triangle football and replica miniature field
• The game played for decades with a folded sheet of notebook paper is now an NFL licensed game
• Genuine leather pro style pebble surface Arizona cardinals color logo
• For the Arizona Cardinals fan of any age
• No batteries no electricity decidedly low tech rules are included

For decades millions have folded a sheet of paper into a triangle "football" sliding it back and forth across a table in an attempt to score a touchdown. An opponent's outstretched fingers forming a goalpost for field goals and extra points. Today the game is called FIKI Football and features the NFL logo of your favorite team. The game includes a genuine leather triangle "football" with pro-style pebble surface on one side and the NFL team logo emblazoned on the reverse side. The game includes a 5 x 7 inch replica football field and goalpost. The NFL team logo appears in both end zones and the NFL Shield logo prominently at mid-field.

Sequence for Kids

Sequence for Kids Review

Sequence for Kids Feature

• A sequence game just for kids
• Includes a folding game board, 42 playing cards, 21 red, 21 yellow, 21 blue and 21 green playing chips, Instructions
• Recommended for ages 4 to 7 years

Sequence for Kids (new packaging)

Ticket To Ride - Europe

Ticket To Ride - Europe Review

Ticket To Ride - Europe Feature

• For 2-5 players
• Tons of replay value
• Takes 30-60 minutes to play
• Ticket to Ride - Europe is a complete, new game and does not require the original version
• Also includes 5 Wooden Scoring Markers, 1 Rules booklet, 1 Days of Wonder Online access number

Get ready for a new train adventure as you travel across Europe with Ticket to Ride - Europe, the new edition of the worldwide hit from Days of Wonder. From Edinburgh to Constantinople and from Lisbon to Moscow, the game will take you on a ride to the great cities of turn-of-the-century Europe. More than just a new map, Ticket to Ride - Europe features brand new gameplay elements including Tunnels, Ferries and Train Stations. Plus, we've upgraded you to First-Class accommodations with larger cards, new Train Station game pieces, and a lavishly illustrated gameboard. Like the original, the game remains elegantly simple, can be learned in three minutes, and appeals to both families and experienced gamers. Ticket to Ride - Europe is a complete, new game and does not require the original version. It is for 2 to 5 players, and it takes 30-60 minutes to play.

POG Classic Game

POG Classic Game Review

POG Classic Game Feature

• Improve your skill and coordination
• Whoever can flip over the most POG wins
• Includes game pieces, board and rules
• For ages 5 and up

POG Classic is a fast paced game that combines skill and coordination. Each player picks 11 POG and a Slammer, then Stack'em and Slam'em. The player who can flip over the most POG wins. Includes 22 POG, 2 Slammers, 1 Game Board and 1 Official Rule Sheet. Ages 5+.

Runebound: Avatars of Kelnov

Runebound: Avatars of Kelnov Review

Runebound: Avatars of Kelnov Feature

• An adventure variant for Runebound
• 30 new cards to replace the adventure from the base game
• Age: 12+
• Number of Players: 2 - 6
• Playing Time: 2 - 3 hrs

When the Dragonlords have met their final fate, and the giants are no longer wroth, when the elder king has reclaimed the throne, there will be one last trial for the folk of Terrinoth. The three signs will come, their faith will be tested sore, and those who persevere will behold a time blessed by the gods of yore. ~Unattributed folk song.

The Avatars of Kelnov expansion pack is a whole new adventure set in the Runebound land of Terrinoth! In a time before time, the gods banished the wrathful All-Father Kelnov and his Avatars, out of this world and out of history. His return is prophecied to herald in an age of peace - but whether it will be an age of peace under a tyrannical god, or an age of peace and freedom, is up to the heroes to determine ...

The Avatars of Kelnov adventure variant replaces some elements of the Rise of the Dragon Lords adventure found in the base Runebound game, creating an entirely new game experience! It includes 30 new adventure cards.

Cranium Playground Board Game

Cranium Playground Board Game Review

The most playful place to learn! Welcome to Cranium Playground, the preschool game that gets kids matching, drawing, dancing, and making letter shapes as they race around the monkey bars to win! Playing Cranium Playground encourages... - Counting and number matching - Creative expression - Letter recognition - Find motor skills - Spatial awareness - Large motor skills

Apples to Apples Junior - The Game of Crazy Comparisons!

Apples to Apples Junior - The Game of Crazy Comparisons! Review

Apples to Apples Junior - The Game of Crazy Comparisons! Feature

• Apples to Apples is a game of hilarious comparisons
• Contains 576 cards and provides hours and hours of fun
• Players will delight in the crazy comparisons while expanding their vocabulary and thinking skills
• Does not contain duplicate card sets
• Good for hours of fun

Apples to Apples Junior is the game of hilarious comparisons! Players will delight in the crazy comparisons while expanding their vocabulary and thinking skills. The 576 cards provide hours and hours of fun! The kids and junior card sets contain no duplicate cards. The sets may be combined for thousands of new comparisons.

Face It Board Game

Face It Board Game Review

Face It Board Game Feature

• Fun for kids and adults!
• It's easy to learn and fun to play
• Each game takes only 15 minutes
• 2-4 Players
• Ages 5+

On a grid you place one of your 4 tiles on the board trying to make as large sets as possible. There are four colours (faces) and a special white tile. You get points for how large the group of like faces that border on each other are. The points are taken from your neighbor. The points are in the form of coins from 1 to 5 in worth so kids actually have to do math. The tile is replaced after playing and if the white tile is drawn it allows the player to steal a tile from another player and the white tile is then replaced in the bag for others to possibly draw again in the future. For the younger kids it can teach color matching. You can also play with the expressions on the tiles (Happy, sad, scared and mad), such as when you play a tile you have to make the expression.

Regal Travel Auto Bingo Game Card - Car Bingo, Assorted Colors (Sold Individually)

Regal Travel Auto Bingo Game Card - Car Bingo, Assorted Colors (Sold Individually) Review

Regal Travel Auto Bingo Game Card - Car Bingo, Assorted Colors (Sold Individually) Feature

• Sliding windows to mark each space.
• Beats 99 bottles of beer on the wall.
• Each card measures approx. 6.75 x 6.75".
• Sold individually. Color may vary.

Bring back the glory days of childhood games with a rousing round of new-school bingo-on your next road trip. It keeps kids occupied by interacting with the scenery. Spot various items such as a barn, truck, stop sign, etc. Slide the "finger tip" shutter cards to mark the space. The first to get 5 in a row wins.