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Multi-color Quantities Arranging Game

by admin April 16, 2016

If kids were to spend some extended time at home instead of outside playing with friends, then you should always be prepared to give them something worthwhile to do. They can only play with certain toys for so long as well as watch TV until they get bored. They might sometimes be in need of a mental challenge to keep them a bit occupied. A mental puzzle like the Multi-color Quantities Arranging Game can keep them busy.

The Multi-color Quantities Arranging Game is a set of wooden pieces that come in different shapes and colors. The variety of shapes available can help drive that creativity out and put to good use playing with the wooden pieces. They can use the pieces to create some pattern or design as they play. If not the set also comes with design cards that kids can use to challenge themselves through matching the designs. The set helps encourage a child’s fine motor skills, visual-spatial skills as well as their ability to match patterns and designs. The Multi-color Quantities Arranging Game is ideal for kids from 2 years old and above and is available at Fat Brain Toys for $19.

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A-Maze-Ball Maze Game

by admin December 10, 2015

Kids who love challenges will usually like to play with different puzzles. Once they mastered one puzzle though, they try to find other more challenging puzzles to try out. It great for the kids to at least try different types of puzzles that offer them different challenges to continue the mental stimulation they need. For something different to try this time, kids may consider this new A-Maze-Ball Maze Game.

The A-Maze-Ball Maze Game is a spherical puzzle that may prove a different challenge for kids who have grown accustomed to digital puzzles they usually play on their tablets or portable devices. It is a classic physical puzzle that requires deft manipulation and focus in order to solve. The sphere comes with a complex 3D maze inside with a metal ball. The objective is to get the ball from one end of the maze to the other.

The A-Maze-Ball Maze Game may look simple at first. But once kids try to solve it, they are in for a big surprise. Kids will need to use their fine motor skills to maneuver the metal ball in the direction they wish it to go. They also will try to take advantage of gravity to do the work for them sometimes. They also need a bit of a strategy so as not to trap the ball on a dead end while they do the puzzle.

The A-Maze-Ball Maze Game comes in three different game levels- the easy orange ball, the red medium difficulty ball and the blue hard level ball. The puzzle challenge may even be quite intriguing for adults to try it out. The A-Maze-Ball Maze Game is available exclusively at Think Geek for $10 each.

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IQ Blox Board Game

by admin June 6, 2015

Some kids love a good mental challenge. Although it may be a surprise for many parents out there, kids do love solving puzzles. They get a thrilling sense of accomplishment every time they solve a puzzle correctly. Parents should try to encourage kids to do these challenges whenever they can. Toys like the IQ Blox Board Game can help.

The IQ Blox Board Game is a game with 7 puzzle pieces and 4 wall pieces. It is a picture-based puzzle where players need to place all the puzzle pieces on the board. The set comes with a booklet of 120 challenges where the only clue given is the placement of the wall pieces on the board. In this game, the walls actually help players solve the puzzles.

The IQ Blox Board Game comes with challenges separated into 4 levels of difficulty. And for each challenge, there can only be one solution. Kids will have a good time trying to find a solution to the puzzles. It can help develop their strategic planning, critical thinking and logic skills. This game is ideal for kids from 6 years old and above. It is available at Fat Brain Toys for $10.

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Tangram Travel Puzzle Set

by admin March 4, 2015

Kids are quite creative in finding different ways to kill time when they are bored. There are kids who like to spend their time enjoying role-playing games with friends. Some prefer spending their time solving puzzles. Going on a long trip usually gives children all the time to do both. For kids who love to play with puzzles while going on a trip, this Tangram Travel Puzzle Set will always come in handy.

The Tangram Travel Puzzle Set is a good puzzle game to have during long trips with a lot of downtime in between. Kids who love puzzles will love playing with this puzzle set composed of seven foam puzzle pieces composed of different shapes. The set also comes with fifteen double-sided cards that contain images that players can try to recreate on a sturdy wooden tray using the available puzzle pieces. If a particular puzzle seems too difficult to recreate, kids just need to flip the puzzle card to get the solution. But the challenge of the game is trying to solve the puzzle on your own, so no cheating by looking at the solution before solving the puzzle.

With the Tangram Travel Puzzle Set, kids can learn how to create a house, a dog or a cat using the puzzle pieces. Kids can even become more creative and create images of their own using the puzzle pieces. This simple puzzle toy can provide kids with hours and hours of challenges to accomplish. That will be quite a great way to spend all that time traveling on the road without getting bored. The Tangram Travel Set comes in a travel storage box with a handle. Ideal for kids from 3 years old and above, the Tangram Travel Puzzle Set is available at Fat Brain Toys for $15.

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Scribble Maze

by admin February 24, 2015

Kids would love a challenge or two now and then. It helps to teach them many skills that they need as they grow up. Challenges help sharpen a kid’s knack for accomplishment. Toys like the Scribble Maze game help provide kids with challenges they can always find fun and entertaining as well.

The Scribble Maze is a game board composed of four over-sized wooden jigsaw puzzle pieces. Kids put them together to form a big maze made up of winding and looping trails with holes. There are also marbles in cups that kids can use with the game. The objective is to maneuver the marbles in cups through the maze path without having them fall into the holes along the trail. Kids can start with the marble in a small cup for the easy challenge. They can then move on to marbles in larger cups to move around the maze. The larger cups give marbles more space to move inside, giving some added difficulty in maneuvering the marbles and avoiding the holes.

The Scribble Maze game helps develop a child’s fine motor skills as well as their concentration as well as their hand-eye coordination. It can also help them develop the persistence to succeed even after going through several unsuccessful attempts in completing the maze. The 4 game board pieces are printed on both sides with different mazes. There is also 4 transparent cups of different sizes as well as 4 marbles in 2 colors and a red felt playing mat. Detailed instruction also comes with the set. The Scribble Maze is ideal for kids from 3 years old and above. It is available at Fat Brain Toys for $19.

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Brainstring Houdini

by admin December 15, 2014

We may not know it, but our kids relish having challenges they can try to solve. Some kids are quite adept at problem solving because they have developed the skills early. It may not necessarily be difficult activities. It can also be fun like playing with the Brainstring Houdini.

The Brainstring Houdini is a unique puzzle featuring the great escape artist Houdini. He is known to escape handcuffs, straitjackets and chains. In this game, the player needs to help Houdini get out this time. Help him wiggle out of the Brainstring knot. Holding the colorful tips that stick through the box Houdini is placed in, move the strings through the track until you get the great magician completely untangled. Once you solve the puzzle, just create another knot around Houdini to set up a new puzzled.

The Brainstring Houdini is a fun brainteaser for kids to solve. It is not so difficult that kids would shun away once they see it. It can help develop a child’s fine motor skills, focus and concentration. This brainteaser is ideal for kids from 7 years old and above. The Brainstring Houdini is available at Toys R’ Us for $17.

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Puzzle Battle Game

by admin December 13, 2014

There are many kids who love puzzles. Trying to assemble pieces of a puzzle and then complete it gives kids a sense of accomplishment or achievement. Not only that, it is also fun to do. It can even be more enjoyable if friends join in on the fun. The Puzzle Battle Game is one activity that adds some competition to puzzle building games.

The Puzzle Battle is a set of puzzles that mixes in a competitive game between friends or family members. The set consists of sixty puzzle pieces that creates two different images. Players choose what image they wish to build up with the puzzle pieces and then it is a race to see who can finish first. All the pieces are mixed together and it is up to the players to find which pieces of the puzzle belong to the image they are building. Craziness ensues when both players find out that they are building the same image after all. The first player to complete the puzzle wins.

Playing the Puzzle Battle is both fun and exciting. Easy rules help make it fun for even for the younger kids. The fast-paced action always provides the excitement in the game. The game helps develop fine motor skills, image recognition, as well as focus and concentration. It is ideal for kids from 6 years old and above. The Puzzle Battle comes in three puzzle designs to choose from- jungle, pirates and dragon and princess. It is available at Fat Brain Toys for $15.

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Tracktic Game

by admin November 21, 2014

Some games are easy and fun to play. Some games on the other hand, can be quite complicated and challenging. For kids who love to have both when playing broad games, nothing can provide such a unique experience like the Tracktic Game.

The Tracktic Game is a type of board game that may look easy at first glance. But when you try it yourself, you may be in for some challenge. The Tracktic Game has a simple objective for players- to build the longest path on the park. Each player has puzzle pieces that come in a single color to build their path on the board. But while you try to do so, your opponents will be doing the same thing. Plan your path so that you can block or stop your opponent from building a longer path. You can even flip their puzzle pieces in order to make it white and use it as your own. But be warned, white puzzle pieces on the board can be used by anyone.

The Tracktic Game is a strategic game that provides players with an exciting challenge that is not that complicated to understand. It allows players to think and plan each move in trying to create the longest path on the board. The board game comes with 140 puzzle pieces equally divided into four different colors, 4 stacking racks, 40 cards, 8 tokens and game instructions. The Tracktic Game is available at Think Geek for $35.

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Logic Dots

by admin August 7, 2014

Teaching kids about logic and deductive reasoning may be a bit difficult. The best way to do so is by teaching them by way of examples. Fun games and puzzles that develop such skills will help a lot. Puzzle games like Logic Dots will help develop a child’s logic and deductive reasoning skills the fun way.

The Logic Dots game feature nine logic cubes coming with different color combinations circled on the different sides. The set also comes with 36 challenge cards. Follow the instructions of lining up the cubes on the square frame as indicated on each challenge card. Kids will then use their logical and deductive reasoning powers to figure out the solutions for each challenge. It also helps develop fine motor skills as well as their visualization skills as they play through each challenge.

The Logic Dots set comes with 9 multi-colored cubes, frame, 36 challenge cards, a color code card, and 12 solution cards. Detailed instructions on game play are also included. It is an ideal puzzle game for kids 8 years old and above. The Logic Dots game is available at Fat Brain Toys for $20.

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ThinkFun Gravity Maze

by admin August 1, 2014

Puzzle toys are designed to challenge the mental capacities of kids. But sometimes the challenges they offer tend to be similar to other puzzle games. If kids know how to solve one puzzle, they tend to also know how to solve other games. It helps to have some level of variety to help enhance a child’s need for mental challenges. The Gravity Maze from ThinkFun may just be the toy you need.

The ThinkFun Gravity Maze is a unique game that gives kids a mental challenge of a 3D variety. It helps challenge not only reasoning skills but also a child’s visual perception skills. It features a game grid, 10 colorful translucent towers, each one containing a pathway where a marble can pass through. The game also comes with 60 challenge cards that kids need to solve using the set of towers and arranging it in a way to move the marble from start to end. The challenges range from easy to expert.

The ThinkFun Gravity Maze comes with instructions to guide kids how to play the game. It is ideal for kids from 8 years old and above. The ThinkFun Gravity Maze is available at Toys R’ Us for $30.

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Quadrillion Game Board

by admin July 12, 2014

Playing puzzle games not only sharpens the mind, it can also be fun. When you solve a puzzle, it gives you a feeling of accomplishment like no other. But then again, not being able to solve it can leave you frustrated as well. But that is part of the game, part of life even. Imagine teaching this to your kids at an early age. You can always have them play with the Quadrillion Game Board.

The Quadrillion Game Board is a unique puzzle game featuring unique pieces and a unique game board. It comes with four magnetic grids that you can snap together. There are also several colorful balls linked together in different shapes and sizes. The main objective of the game is to snap the pieces into the game board while leaving the black and white dots on the board untouched. Overlapping the pieces in the edges of the board is also a no-no.

Kids can start easy with the Quadrillion Game Board and they progress from there. The set comes with 4 magnetic game boards, 12 puzzle pieces, and a booklet with 60 challenges on 5 levels. This game helps kids develop cognitive thinking and logical reasoning. The Quadrillion Game Board is available at Fat Brain Toys for $20.

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Balancing Ball Tracks

by admin July 1, 2014

Kids like to try different challenges. It is part of the learning process for them. They explore and try to do things. Sometimes they can get into trouble with parents because of their curiosity about doing different things. But it all becomes part of growing up. And with parents out there to guide them, kids will always be in good hands.

As part of the challenge to learn different things, parents can provide toys that help them exercise their physical as well as cognitive skills. Toys like the Balancing Ball Tracks can help kids develop both at the same time.

The Balancing Ball Tracks features a ball and a set of maze tiles where the ball can roll through. But the kids need to assemble the 16 maze tiles together to set up a maze for the ball. Once they create the maze and set it on the wooden tray, kids can then try to roll the ball from the starting point to the end point of the maze. Kids do this by tilting and moving the wooden tray in different directions to keep the ball rolling. Through this activity, kids can develop and improve their early logic, concentration as well as fine motor skills. The Balancing Ball Tracks is an ideal toy for kids from 18 months old and above. It is available at Fat Brain Toys for $37.

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Hex Hive Puzzle Game

by admin June 28, 2014

Unique puzzles help kids become more mentally sharp. Puzzles also help hone their problem solving skills. There are kids who just cannot get enough of puzzles to solve. The Hex Hive Puzzle Game can be a nice addition to a young puzzle fan’s collection of puzzles to solve.

The Hex Hive Puzzle Game combines a bit of math and creativity in solving puzzles. Kids use a Hex Hive as the base for the puzzles. There are also challenge cards that come with numbered cells. Kids choose one card and slide it into the clear view Hex Hive to solve the puzzle.

To solve the puzzles, kids make use of different honeycomb tiles to place into the numbered tiles. The tiles come in varied shapes and colors. The objective of the puzzle is for kids to try and place the honeycomb tiles over the challenge cards. They leave the tile on the puzzle if the numbers visible through the tile add up to seven. Kids can proceed with using the right tile for the remaining numbers to solve each puzzle.

The Hex Hive Puzzle Game features 10 transparent honeycomb tiles, 10 40 challenge cards as well as 2 bee blockers to cover numbers for puzzles that require them. The puzzles vary in terms of difficulty levels. The Hex Hive is an ideal game for kids from 8 years old and above to try. It is available at Fat Brain Toys for $22.

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