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An iconic and memorable board game is giving itself a tech twist! The Game of Life by Hasbro has a new edition that requires an iPad to play. Titled “The Game of Life: zAPPed Edition,” it allows players to play the iPad and the gameboard together for an interactive family bonding. The game’s iPad app, which can be downloaded for free, is needed for a much deeper gaming level with over 100 amusing...

Who says LEGO is just for boys? The build-your-own-toy company offers its new line that targets girls. The LEGO Friends series features figures and dollhouses that girls age five to 12 can build from the ground up. Following the LEGO tradition, each brick piece can be connected with utmost precision or with wanton freestyle, letting the girls’ creativity put to the test. The LEGO Friends follows the lifest...

Are your children fascinated about the moon and the stars? There are glow-in-the-dark heavenly body decals that you can stick on the children’s room walls, but a more realistic presentation could bring more astonishment in the interior. The Uncle Milton Moon In My Room is a projection device that beams out a very detailed 3D image of the moon on the wall. The device even shows the 12 phases of the moon. Pa...

Imagine Tetris being played on a board game. It sounds like it while playing Blokus by Mattel. This strategy board game promotes creative spatial thinking. The aim of the game is for players to fit all of their Tetris-like pieces onto the board. Unlike that iconic game, however, players are not allowed to place a piece adjacently to any other piece. Instead, the piece must touch at least one corner of their pie...

Want your children to play with Angry Birds other than on smartphone or tablet? Have them play Angry Birds Finger Puppets. Each package comes complete with six plush figures, featuring all five Angry Bird characters plus one green pic. Officially licensed by Rovio, these Angry Birds puppets make great bonding time between you and the kids. They would try mimick the flying birds as they catapult the puppets to ...

Want to play Scrabble, but hate the length of time it takes to play it? Frustrated over other players who take over your favorite spot? Bananagrams bring word games into a frenzy as players race to empty their letter tiles. The game is similar to Scrabble: each player gets a certain number of letter tiles (no blanks), with all of them get to form words and connect them like crossword puzzles. The first to use a...

Civilization-style games have been popular as of late whether it is on PC (Age of Empires), social networking sites (City of Wonder), or online. But most of these games are played alone in front of the computer. What better way to simulate the days of yore is through a board game with friends and family! The Settlers of Catan by MayFair Games is an award-winning strategy game wherein players collect resources and...

Make your fascination for Angry Birds app to reality with an actual Angry Birds game. Angry Birds: On Thin Ice by Mattel is the second installment of the exciting skill and action game based on the hit smartphone app. Players simply build a structure, as directed in a mission card, using green pigs (some of which wear helmets), breakable ice blocks, and an exploding TNT box. Then, the Angry Bird is hurled using a...

What we have here is a toy that takes the term “mind games” to a literal sense. Mindflex Duel is a “brain game challenge” from Mattel that requires players to strap on lightweight, wireless headsets that can move a floating foam ball along a set track just by the power of “mind-eye coordination.” Mattel claims that the headsets measure brainwaves to levitate the ball and contro...

Scrabble is a classic board game, now imagine turning it into a card game. From the originator of the popular board game Monopoly, Scrabble Slam by Parker Brothers is a high-speed card game that consists of a deck of 55 cards, each containing different letters on both sides. Players race against each other to change the existing four-letter word, discarding their cards in the process. The player with the least n...