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Anagramania^®

This clever game is one of the most highly acclaimed board games of recent years and is the winner of 10 prestigious awards. The Chicago Tribune newspaper picked it as one of its 'Cool' games of 2005; and in 2006 Better Homes and Gardens magazine selected it for inclusion in their Holiday Gift Guide as one of the four best games of the year.

Anagramania is currently available in two Editions - 'Junior' for 8-12 year-olds, and 'Intermediate' for teens and adults. The game challenges you to solve clues - but with a unique twist! The answer to each clue must be a single-word anagram made from one or more highlighted words included in the clue itself.

Here's an example from the Junior Edition:

She felt it just wasn't right

Something that isn't right could be 'wrong', 'incorrect', 'left', etc. However, the correct answer is 'left', because it alone is an anagram of the highlighted word 'felt'. Got it? OK, try this clue from the Intermediate Edition:

He took a sea trip and ran into some marine plunderers

Players compete against each other and the clock in a race to the center of the board. Anagramania Junior Edition offers an enjoyable way for children to expand their vocabulary and improve their language skills, while the Intermediate Edition provides hours of mind-stretching entertainment for family and social get-togethers. By the way, the answer to the Intermediate clue above is 'pirates'.

No. of Players: 2-6
Ages - Junior Edition: 8 and up
Ages - Intermediate Edition: Teens/Adults
Playing Time: 25-40 minutes
Curriculum: English language
- vocabulary, spelling, anagrams

Retail Price: $33.60
Educational Price: $29.55

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EqualZ ^TM

Introduced in 2007 and winner of several awards including a Creative Child "Game of the Year", this challenging card game offers great fun for children, parents and teachers too!

In each round, players try to produce as many arithmetic expressions as they can that equal a randomly selected target number. The game tests both the mental arithmetic skills and creative abilities of players, as they try to envision how best to combine a collection of numeric cards and operator cards
(+ - x ÷) to produce the current target number. An optional buy/sell rule adds an entertaining twist, as players try to win each round by using up all the cards in their hands.

No. of Players: 2-6
Ages: 7 and up
Playing Time: 10-15 minutes per round
Curriculum: Arithmetic
- operators, expressions

Retail Price: $16.60
Educational Price: $14.60

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Nymble ^TM

As one reviewer put it, this is a fun game of 'debatable interpretations'. If someone told you that the words 'leg' and 'limb' have the same meaning, would you challenge them? "Of course they're not!" you'd respond. "It's true that a leg is a limb; but so is an arm." What if they said that 'walking' and 'stationary' were opposites? You might reply that cars can be stationary, but you don't usually find them walking! So you would conclude that 'moving' is really the opposite of 'stationary', because it applies to things as well as animals. This is the kind of lively, and often hilarious, debate that occurs when playing Nymble.

The game is played in three rounds. In round 1, players try to make pairs of words with the same meaning (synonyms), with either one or both of the words coming from a randomly selected set of letters. In round 2, the pairs of words must have opposite meanings (antonyms); and in the last round, players are looking for pairs of words that sound alike (homonyms). The more word pairs they make, the higher their score could be. However, each round also includes a challenge phase, and the scoring reflects the success or failure of challenges as well as the value of word pairs. The player who ends up with the highest aggregate total after the three rounds is declared the winner.

Evaluated by 72 teacher teams from across the country, Nymble was among the few games to win the prestigious 2007 Teachers' Choice Award. It has also won 5 other awards.

No. of Players: 2-6
Ages: 10 and up
Playing Time: 30-45 minutes
Curriculum: English language
- vocabulary, grammar
- synonyms, antonyms, homonyms

Retail Price: $29.60
Educational Price: $26.00

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Fabrication ^TM

You have up to 60 seconds, in a continuing story, to tell an outrageously tall tale! You start your turn with a 'Story Starter' card and a 'Fabrication Line' card. You must "work in" the Fabrication Line selected from your game card and try to stump your opponents for points. When time is up, an opposing player may score by being the first to guess correctly what the Fabrication line was in your fabricated story. Some lines are real ZINGERS! Stump your opponents to earn DOUBLE POINTS with the Zinger line.

Let your imagination run wild! Players may play individually or in teams. In team play, if you suddenly get a "brain cramp" you may pass "Pass the Buck" at any time to another team player to pick up where you left off. In this case, your opponents must not only guess the Fabrication line, but also who said it.

The player or team with the most points wins; great fabricators know Fabrication when they hear it!

No. of Players: 2 or more
Ages: 10 and up
Playing Time: 25-40 minutes
Curriculum: English literature
- story telling, creativity

Retail Price: $18.60
Educational Price: $16.35

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Brainstrain ^TM

Brainstrain is the game in which you literally use your head!

Put on your Brainstrain strap, insert a card from one of your opponents without looking at what it says, and you've got 60 seconds to ask as many questions as possible to guess who you are, what you are or where you are! One little catch... the answers may only be "yes", "no", "kinda" or "could be". But don't worry, if you can't guess in 60 seconds your opponents are now on your team and can give you a clue...for a price! The first person to complete the board in all three categories is the winner!

"This game is quite hilarious!"

Brainy people liked it so much they gave it a 'Mensa Select' award.

No. of Players: 3-6
Ages: 10 and up
Playing Time: 45-60 minutes
Curriculum: General knowledge

Retail Price: $27.60
Educational Price: $24.25

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Toads of Fun ^TM

According to TD Monthly, 'Toads of Fun' is a deceptively fun game, and one of the few games that can truly span the 4 to 8 year old gap. Normally what's good for a 4 year old is too young for the 8 year old, or what's fine for the 8 year old is too tough for the 4 year old. 'Toads of Fun' was great for everyone. It's very simplicity makes it addictive. It's all about the spinners, and the tides of the play can change at any moment, so there's nothing predictable about it. Good for the whole family.

When your turn comes, you spin both spinners. Match the color and number you spin to the same color and number on the lily pads. Move to that spot. If there are flies on the place where you land, catch them and put them on your log. You need six flies to fill the log and win the game.

But watch out! Sometimes you may get splashed into the pond or sent to your log by another toad or the bee. If that happens, all your flies go back to the lily pads or to another toad's log and you have to start over.

No. of Players: 2-6
Ages: 4 and up
Playing Time: 20-35 minutes
Curriculum: Colors, Numbers

Retail Price: $19.60
Educational Price: $17.25

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Think Outside the Box ^TM

This is the creative thinking game widely chosen in Europe by IBM, Microsoft and many other companies for employee training. The problems are just as much fun for children!

The game comprises a series of 41 cards with problems of an increasing degree of complexity. These brain-teasers challenge the creativity of the individual and truly promote alternative ways of thinking. The cards are constructed in such a way that the user is led through the various stages of solving the "problem". There are three different levels (easy, moderately difficult and difficult). None of the problems are trivial and solving any of them definitely demands an unconventional approach!

No. of Players: 1 or more
Ages: 11 and up
Playing Time: 3-20 minutes per problem
Curriculum: Creative thinking

Retail Price: $39.60
Educational Price: $34.85

Sentence Says ^TM

Sentence Says picks up where other word games leave off by challenging players to create a bona fide sentence from letter cards while playing against time, action cards, and the judgment of other players; all while protecting sentences and points from being stolen by opponents.

In Sentence Says, you roll the die to determine how many letter cards you will receive as well as how much time you will get to create your sentence. Then draw an action card to get your sentence instruction. Quick, the timer has started! What will your sentence say? Each letter begins any word of your choice and the cards can be arranged in any order. For the letters M, D, I, R, V and C, you could create the sentence "My Dog Is Really Very Cute" or hundreds of other possible sentences! Opponents judge a winning sentence and can steal it and your points if you're not careful. The first player to reach 100 points wins the game.

Fun for kids and adults alike! Educational benefits include: Sentence structure, critical thinking, oral communication and quick-thinking exercises.

No. of Players: 2-6
Ages: 7 and up
Playing Time: 20-35 minutes
Curriculum: English language
- sentence structure, vocabulary

Retail Price: $33.60
Educational Price: $29.55

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