Snap Circuits SC-300

Snap Circuits SC-300 Review

Snap Circuits SC-300 Feature

• AWARDS: The National Parenting Center-Seal of Approval, Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products, Dr Toy Best Educational Products
• Contains over 60 Snap-Together parts. Build over 300 exciting projects.
• Clear and concise Illustrated Manual Included and Available Online.
• Build a Radio, Doorbell, burglar alarm and more
• No tools required

Give your child an exciting, hands-on introduction to electronics with Elenco Electronics Snap Circuits SC-300. This kit contains over 60 color-coded, real circuit components that snap together to create working electronic circuits and devices. Recommended for children 8 and older, this set offers 305 do-it-yourself projects that will give your child an entertaining, concrete education on how electronics work.

Snap Circuits SC-300 At a Glance: Age: 8 and up Requirements: 4 AA batteries (not included) Warranty: Warranted against manufacturer's defects Upgrade Kit: UC-50: Upgrades to SC-500 UC-70: Upgrades to SC-750 UC-100: Upgrades to SCM-400 AC-SNAP: Battery replacement kit

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Create Working Electronic Circuits
Snap Circuits comes with over 60 pieces to create 305 different electronic projects. The pieces, which include snap wires, a slide switch, a resistor, a microphone, and capacitors, snap together easily onto the included plastic grid--no soldering required. Each piece is numbered and color-coded to make identifying them easy. These components combine to create working circuit boards just like the ones found inside televisions, radios, and other electronic devices.

Simple, Fun Projects Let Kids Learn While They Play
With its easy-to-follow instructions, Snap Circuits gives your child a hands-on education in how electrical circuits run the everyday devices that they're familiar with. They'll also gain valuable lessons in building and in following instructions. The project manuals include large color illustrations and simple directions for each project.

The project list includes all of the projects included in the SC-100 set and 204 additional projects, including a photosensitive electronic organ, a lie detector, an AM radio, and a two-finger touch lamp. With these projects, children will experiment with electric switches, integrated circuits, digital circuits, fuses, and the transformation of circuit sounds into other sounds.

Grow as You Go
Because the projects are arranged in order of complexity, kids can build on their skills as they progress through the manual. The lessons start out with a simple electric light and switch project that demonstrates how electricity is turned on and off with a switch. Further along, kids can put together a fire fan symphony, a water-detection alarm, a delayed-action fan, and more.

Design Your Own Circuits and Upgrade Your Kit
Once children have mastered several of the techniques introduced in this kit, they can use the components to experiment and create their own customized circuits and electronic devices. The Snap Circuits SC-300 can also be upgraded to the Snap Circuits Pro, Snap Circuits Extreme, or SCM-400 with the purchase of a UC-50, UC-70, or UC-100 upgrade kit, respectively. Kids will enjoy additional parts, manuals, and projects that'll take their kit--and their fun--to the next level.

Snap Circuits SC-300 requires four AA batteries, which are not included.

What's in the Box
Plastic snap-grid, 32 electrical components, and 2 project manuals.

Snap Circuits Jr. SC-100	Snap Circuits SC-300	Snap Circuits Pro SC-500	Snap Circuits Extreme SC-750
Build over 100 projects Contains over 30 parts	Build over 300 projects Contains over 60 parts	Build over 500 projects Contains over 75 parts	Build over 750 projects Contains over 80 parts

This educational kit is loaded with more than 300 projects to build. For example, kids can learn how transistors and capacitors function, and how to make time-delay circuits. In addition, this version includes circuits showing how oscillators and photo sensors work. Projects involve an AM Radio, Burglar Alarm, Radio Announcer and more. Contains over 60 parts. Requires 4 "AA" batteries, not included.

Payday: 30th Anniversary Edition

Payday: 30th Anniversary Edition Review

Payday: 30th Anniversary Edition Feature

• Game board, 4 mover tokens, 1 red die
• 64 deal & mail cards, savings & loan pad, money, rules
• Fundamentals of budgeting
• Fosters an entrepreneurial spirit

The classic game of Payday makes family finance fun as it reminds everyone just where the money goes. Players take turns along the game board, which is designed as a 31-day calendar. You could make a big profit or lose your shirt on a bad investment and have to take out a loan to pay the bills as they pile up. Don't worry, you might win the lottery or hit the jackpot and pick up money. At the end of every month, you get paid. Play as many months as you like, pay off all your bills and figure out how much money you've got left. Whoever has the most money is the winner. Includes game board, four plastic tokens, one die, 64 deal and mall cards, savings and loan pad, paper money. For 2-4 players.

Cranium

Cranium Review

Cranium Feature

• Smash-hit, award-winning board game brings friends together through a variety of activities that provide something for everyone
• Now with 600 all-new cards
• Features an innovative three-way folding game board that allows players to choose the length of game
• Provide something for everyone!
• Supported with new TVC featuring real players having outrageous fun

Cranium is the outrageous, award-winning board game packed with something-for-everyone fun! Whether you're an aspiring actor, artist, data hound, or wordsmith, Cranium gives you a chance to shine. Cranium brings families and friends together -- after dinner, at parties, on rainy afternoons. When you play Cranium, you'll use your brain in ways you never imagined and find yourself doing the unexpected. And the fun doesn't end when the game does -- you'll never forget your uncle impersonating Celine Dion, your sister acting out pigs in a blanket, your mom spelling asparagus backwards, or your best friend sculpting Humpty Dumpty out of clay! What's in the box? Cranium includes the Cranium board, 600 outrageous cards covering 14 activities, a ten-sided Cranium die, a tub of cool Cranium Clay, a timer, Cranium pads and pencils, and four Cranium play pieces. Actual brains not included!

Mousetrap

Mousetrap Review

Mousetrap Feature

• Contraption-building table game that pits players against each other as mice trying to navigate through a complex mousetrap
• Race to the finish and nab your opponent's mouse before your own gets caught
• Develops fine motor skills
• Instructions in English and Spanish
• The last "mouse" left uncaptured wins

Build a better mousetrap? We dare you. Naturally, the object is to trap mice in the mousetrap, while avoiding getting trapped. By rolling the die, you proceed around the game board, collecting cheese pieces and building a mousetrap bit by bit. Once complete, you set the wheels in motion, as it were, to try to capture the opposition's mice. But this is no ordinary trap. With this contraption you start by turning the crank, that rotates the gears, that push the lever, that moves the shoe, that kicks the bucket, that sends the ball down the stairs and into the gutter, that leads to the rod that releases a second ball, that falls through the bathtub and onto the springboard, that catapults the diver into the washtub, that causes the cage to fall and--whew!--hopefully, capture a mouse. The last "mouse" left uncaptured wins --Alison Golder Build a better mousetrap and you can catch your opponents mouse before yours is caught! As you travel around the board, collect pieces to create your trap, then put it together and start up the whole crazy chain reaction this is no ordinary mousetrap! For 2 to 4 players.

Risk

Risk Review

Risk Feature

• With an updated map and all-new playing pieces, increased rewards for bold moves, and easy to learn rules
• Test your nerve with the basic training game--a quick and easy way to play
• Finally prove your courage in World Contest-an updated edition of the classic Risk game
• Bottom line: 3 ways to play, faster game play, and updated map and playing pieces
• Includes game board, 7 dice, deck of 42 cards, 5 sets of colored units, 5 capitals, 15 cities, parts sheet and instructions
• You'll be ready to take on whatever lies ahead

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Five Crowns

Five Crowns Review

Five Crowns Feature

• Easy to learn
• Tons of replay value
• Great family game, kids can compete with adults
• It starts with 3 cards and 3's are wild. The next hand has 4 cards and 4's are wild, and so on
• You'll need luck and skill throughout the game because even in the last hand a worthy opponent can come from behind and win

Five Crowns is a fast paced ingenious rummy-like card game. Its double deck contains five suits (the stars are new), but it has no aces or twos. This unique deck gives you many more options for arranging your hand into sets and sequences. The challenge is to see them make the right combinations, be the first to go out, then watch the others scramble as they get one last chance to cut their losses. Five Crowns, with its beautiful cards, is easy to learn. It starts with three cards and 3's are wild. The next hand has four cards and 4's are wild, and so on. You'll need luck and skill throughout the game because even in the last hand a worthy opponent can come from behind and win. Remember, "the game isn't over 'til the Kings go wild!" Five Crowns is for up to 2 to 7 players.

Monopoly

Monopoly Review

Monopoly Feature

• Classic family board game
• A game of luck, chance, and wheeling and dealing
• Buy and sell properties in Atlantic City
• Corner parts of the board, build houses and hotels, and charge other players exorbitant rent
• Includes a new game piece and rules for a shortened version of the game

In 1934, in the midst of the Great Depression, an unemployed heating engineer from Pennsylvania created the game of Monopoly. Realizing that his get-rich theme might appeal to other Americans, he had the game printed and distributed in a Philadelphia department store. When he couldn't keep up with the overwhelming requests for more sets, he arranged for Parker Brothers to take over the game. And the rest, as they say, is history. But Monopoly is far from a quaint historical relic. To this day, it remains a riveting game of luck, chance, and savvy wheeling and dealing--all of which can make some lucky dog rich, rich, rich! Based on the purchase of Atlantic City real estate (a city currently renowned for its get-rich gambling opportunities), Monopoly is now printed in 26 languages with more than 200 million sets sold worldwide. Players still scoot the same beloved board pieces: the old shoe, the terrier, and the hot rod. This set also includes rules for a shortened version of the game and a new token, winner of Monopoly's recent "design a token" contest. This is capitalism at its most fun and ruthless, a must-have edition in the family game closet. --Gail Hudson Everybody remembers the Monopoly game - that's why it's still the most popular, most widely played, and best-selling board game in the world! Across the generations and around the globe, what other game brings back so many memories of wheeling-and-dealing family fun' No other game has turned so many game playing moments into memories! Whether you're discovering the fun for the first time or reliving the carefree days of youth, get out there and Buy! Sell! Mortgage! Build houses and hotels! And collect those rents! That's what makes Monopoly the great American game - just ask Rich Uncle Pennybags! For 2 to 8 players. Game includes: game board, 10 tokens, title deed cards, play money, chance cards, community chest cards, 32 houses, 12 hotels and two dice.

Chutes and Ladders Super Hero Squad

Chutes and Ladders Super Hero Squad Review

Chutes and Ladders Super Hero Squad Feature

• Ready for a climbing, sliding, super adventure
• Choose to be one of 8 popular characters to move along the gameboard
• Ladders will zoom you forward, but watch out for chutes that will slide you back
• The classic up and down game featuring your favorite Super Heroes
• Preschool birthday party game

Ready for a climbing, sliding, super adventure? Race to the top with your favorite super heroes. Choose to be one of 8 popular characters to move along the game board. Ladders will zoom you forward, but watch out for chutes that will slide you back. Be the first to the finish line and you're the super hero winner. This is the classic up and down game featuring your favorite super heroes. It includes 8 Super Hero Squad character pawns, 4 pawn stands, a spinner with base and arrow and instructions. It's for 2 to 6 players.

• Product Dimensions (inches): 1.4 (L) x 15.8 (W) x 10.5 (H)
• Age: 3 to 6 years

Patch 5 Second Rule Just Spit It Out

Patch 5 Second Rule Just Spit It Out Review

Patch 5 Second Rule Just Spit It Out Feature

• Fast-paced--race against a unique twist-down timer
• Quick timer requires fast answers that can come out silly, goofy
• Pure on-the-spot answers, don't really have time for thought
• Simple, fun trivia "Name 3 Breeds of Dogs" or can you "Name 3 Famous Michaels"
• For 3 or more players, ages 10 To adult

It should be easy to name 3 breeds of dogs—but can you do it under the pressure of 5 seconds twisting down, and with the other players staring at you, waiting for you to get flustered? Time’s not on your side, so just say what comes to mind and risk ridiculous answers slipping out as time twirls down on the unique twisted timer! It’s all in good fun with this fast-paced game where you have to Just Spit it Out!™ For 3 or more players.

• Recommended Ages: 10 years & Up

Zobmondo Entertainment The Ladybug Game

Zobmondo Entertainment The Ladybug Game Review

Zobmondo Entertainment The Ladybug Game Feature

• Adorable graphics, easy play and no reading required make this award winner a perfect first board game.
• Interactive play stimulates learning and fun, with four ladybugs embarking on a different adventure every time.
• The winner is the first ladybug to find her or his way home.
• Recommended for ages 3 to 8. 2 or more players.
• Invented by a kid for kids.
• Introduction to math concepts.

Once upon a time in a beautiful rose garden there were four ladybug friends who flew among the leaves, exploring their sweet-smelling home. Although they loved the rosebushes, sometimes they wondered what lay beyond their world. Each ladybug had a different wing color: Ella Yellow, Rickie Red, Tommy Teal, and Olivia Orange. Everybody knows and loves ladybugs. Kids will fall in love with the characters and memorize the story of The Ladybug Adventure as they learn to count and read. The Ladybug Game uses a clever combination of colors, numbers, words, and symbols to help even the youngest kids catch on quickly. Soon they will be playing on their own, again and again, as they encounter all the adventures, challenges, and characters in the garden including the Praying Mantis, the Aphids, and the three lazy Ants.

Funglish

Funglish Review

Funglish Feature

• The word-guessing game that lets you express it and guess it with piles of tiles
• You can't talk or act but you can find, grab and play just the right clues from 120 descriptive tiles as everyone shouts out their guesses
• Keep playing tiles like furry, brown and bouncy - Once another player yells out Kangaroo, try a new word before time runs out
• Includes 50 cards, each containing 6 secret words - that's 300 words for hours of guessing fun
• Includes 120 descriptive tiles, 50 cards, easel with 2 leg supports, 3 rails and timer clip, timer and instructions
• For 3 or more players

There's no time to lose, so grab some clues. Can you get the other players to guess the word, "Kangaroo"? You can't talk or act, but you can find, grab and play just the right clues from 120 descriptive tiles as everyone shouts out their guesses. You play "living," "wild" and "tall." Is it a Redwood? A giraffe? A basketball player? Nope. Keep playing tiles like "furry," "brown" and "bouncy." Once another player yells out, "Kangaroo," try a new word before time runs out. That's the funny, noisy, unique, entertaining, magical, fast-moving fun of Funglish -- the word-guessing game that lets you express it and guess it with piles of tiles. The game includes 50 cards, each containing 6 secret words -- that's 300 words for hours of guessing fun. It also has 120 descriptive tiles, an easel with 2 leg supports, 3 rails and timer clip, timer and instructions. It's for 3 or more players.

• Product Dimensions (inches): 2.5 (L) x 10.5 (W) x 10.5 (H)
• Age: 12 years and up

Arkham Horror: Curse of the Dark Pharaoh

Arkham Horror: Curse of the Dark Pharaoh Review

Arkham Horror: Curse of the Dark Pharaoh Feature

• 166 new cards to enhance your Arkham Horror game
• New Benefit and Detriment cards
• Age: 12+
• Number of Players: 1 - 8
• Playing Time: 2-4 hrs

This new expansion for FFG's Arkham Horror board game unleashes diabolical evil and unnatural crises upon Arkham in the form of the Curse of the Dark Pharaoh. A museum exhibit from mysterious Egypt has come to Arkham. - Benignly titled Legacy of the Pharaohs, the exhibit soon causes an influx of foreign cultists, supernatural events, powerful relics, and other dangers and mysteries, culminating in the all-too-familiar threat of an Ancient One awakening. Once again, the investigators are the only ones who can, through luck, pluck, lore, and courage, stop it. - Arkham Horror is a re-envisioning of the classic H.P. Lovecraft board game by Richard Launius. This expansion focuses on the thematic game play, amazing art, and strange tales that make the base game such a fan favorite. The expansion also introduces a few new card types, including 22 Exhibit Items (ancient relics from the visiting museum exhibit), 18 Barred from Neighborhood cards, 4 Benefit cards, and 4 Detriment cards. The expansion also includes 45 new Arkham Location cards, 27 new Gate cards, 18 new Mythos cards, 21 new Spells, and 7 Allies, for a total of 166 new cards! - Arkham Horror is a cooperative game for 1-8 players, ages 12 and up, that can be played in 2-3 hours.