
Big Top Game
One of the wonderful things about the circus is that it offers excitement and entertainment for children as well as for adults. On a much smaller scale Big Top does the same. At one level, young players are drawn to the game's colorful theme and simple play structure. On another level, there's something about the visual perception element that offers an appealing challenge to adults. So step right up and enter this five-ring circus of fun for children of all ages!

Buzz Out Game
Bzz Out is an entertaining card game that teaches about numbers and counting as well as elementary strategy. Through the game play, children learn about the relationships between numbers and practice their counting skills by deciding which number is higher. Players also learn some basic probability and strategic thinking skills as they decide whether to keep or swap their cards.

Castle Keep Game
About This Game Transport yourself to a time when protecting your possessions meant defending your keep, the most secure part of the castle. Keeps were often called great towers" because of their imposing structure - walls over 10 feet thick and 75 feet high. They served various functions, from last resort strongholds during battle to sites of castle dungeons. While there are few remaining keeps still standing today, you can get a small taste of what it was like to build and defend a castle in Castle Keep. The game that is simple to learn, yet full of strategy and decision-making elements that will challenge all ages. How To Play Raise your castle! Raze the enemy! In this clever game of medieval maneuvers, build a castle with walls, towers, and a keep by matching color, shape, or both. Will you use your game tiles to strengthen your fortress or to attack vulnerable opponents? Choose wisely, or you may find yourself in royal ruins! The first player to build a complete castle rules the land. Details Ages 8 and up 2 to 4 players Playing time: about 20 minutes Contents 90 tiles rules of play Awards & Acknowledgements Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award National Parenting Center Seal of Approval Dr. Toy's 10 Best Games of The Year Dr. Toy's Top 100 Children's Products Major Fun Award Canadian Toy Testing Council *** (Highest Rating) Parents' Choice Silver Honor Reinforces Visual Discrimination Strategic Thinking Matching Recommended Age: 8 and up"

Check Out! Game
Attention shoppers! Take the express lane to fun in this fast-paced game of visual perception and quick reflexes. Youve found an aisle to put the orange cheese and green apples. But now what do you do with the purple eggs?! Race to place all of your groceries in the correct aisle according to shape and color, but dont make a mistake or else youll have to pay! The first player with an empty shopping cart wins.

Chomp! Game
About This Game Chomp! Is a great tool to help teach children about the food chain. Players learn about the hierarchy of ocean species through employing skills such as visual discrimination and sequencing. It also helps to sharpen reflexes and teaches quick thinking and analysis while playing a fast-moving game. How To Play Plunge into a fast-paced undersea world where life is survival of the quickest. Identify the lowest creature in the food chain then slap it before other players scarf it down. Big fish chomp little fish and everyone chomps plankton. Watch out for the ink-squirting octopus and if you spot an electric eel, get ready for an all-out feeding frenzy! Collect all the cards and you're ruler of the deep blue sea! Details Ages 6 and up 2 to 5 players Playing time: about 20 minutes Contents 55 cards Awards & Acknowledgements Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award Canadian Toy Testing Council *** (Highest Rating) Nick Jr. Magazine Best Toys Selection Dr. Toy's Best Vacation Products Reinforces Science Hand-Eye Coordination Recommended Age: 6 and up

Combo King Game
About This Game Combo King is probably the most rockin' and rollin' game about probability that you will ever play! What are the chances that you will complete the combo in a given number of rolls? How many chips are worth cashing to try to get rid of a card? No matter the odds, it couldn't hurt to do your lucky dance, because your next roll could be the one it takes to win it all! How To Play Get ready to roll! Try your luck at the ultimate family dice game. Choose a card, and then try to complete one of 60 outrageous dice challenges. The harder the combo, the more chips you stack up. Dice not rolling your way? Cash in some chips to bring the luck back around. Be the first player to make all your combos and crown yourself the Combo King! Details Ages 8 and up 2 to 4 players Playing time: about 20 minutes Contents 64 cards 36 chips 8 dice rules of play Awards & Acknowledgements Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award Dr. Toy's Best Vacation Products Reinforces Math Problem Solving Recommended Age: 8 and up

Cuckoo Zoo Game
About This Game This just might be the craziest card game you ever play! Make animal sounds when you play cards, be quiet if the card is red, skip players with a cuckoo, play only donkey cards once someone plays a donkey card. The rules sound like something right out of Alice's Wonderland. Actually, behind all of the madness this Cuckoo Zoo is a terrific game that not only reinforces basic matching and memory skills but also teaches the importance of paying attention. How To Play Hee-Haw, Baa-Baa, Oink! Get ready for a roaring good time in this off-the-wall card game. Try to be the first player out of cards by matching animals or colors. The trick is that every time you play a card, you must make the matching animal sound. But don't make a peep if the animal is red or else you collect cards! Colorful animals, crazy rules.crazy fun! Details Ages 6 and up 2 to 6 players Playing time: about 15 minutes Contents 84 cards Awards & Acknowledgements Dr. Toy Smart Play / Smart Toy Award National Parenting Center Seal of Approval Canadian Toy Testing Council *** (Highest Rating) Parents' Choice Recommended iParenting Media Award Reinforces Color Identification Shape Identification Matching Recommended Age: 6 and up

Dog Dice Game
About This Game Dog Dice is a great game for families to play together. You can win no matter what your age. All you need is a keen eye, a sense of humor, and a little luck. Dog Dice is lots of fun, but it also helps build critical learning skills, like visual scanning and discrimination. If you're mathematically minded, try to figure out possibilities of different picture combinations. (We'll start you out - it's twice as easy to roll Gizmo or Stretch as it is to roll McDuff or Gigi.) The social skills the game teaches are just as important, though. There's no better way to learn the value of patience, discipline, and good sportsmanship than to play a great game! How To Play Gizmo's in trouble. McDuff is in the dog house. Roll the dice and see what the dogs are up to now. Match the two dice to a square on your bingo board, then mark that square with a bone. It's not easy to sniff out the mischief! Roll Dog Gone" and, doggonit, you forfeit a bone. The first to mark four squares in the corners or four squares in a row wins. Hot dog! Details Ages 5 and up 2 to 4 players Playing time: about 15 minutes Contents 2 dice 4 bingo boards 48 bones Awards & Acknowledgements Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award Canadian Toy Testing Council *** (Highest Rating) Canadian Toy Testing Council ""Children's Choice"" Award Homeschool.com Best Educational Games Reinforces Visual Discrimination Matching Recommended Age: 5 and up"

Duck Duck Bruce Game
Look out ducks, make way for Bruce! In this quacked-up card game, ducks are waddling everywhere - the circus, the beach, even the moon - and Bruce is hot on their tails. Gather the most high-scoring ducks by turning over cards one at a time. The more cards you reveal, the more you can collect. But if Bruce shows up, your ducks better take cover before that wily hound ruffles some feathers! Get the highest score and you're one lucky duck.

Feed the Kitty Game
About This Game Feed the Kitty is as simple as a cat's life. Mice are on the menu, and as they move from place to place, it's anyone's guess who will end up hungry and who will get to have a full belly. Will you be caught catnapping or will you pounce into the lead? The answer is all in the roll of the dice! How To Play Roll the dice but don't lose your mice! In this fast moving game, try to keep your mice away from the kitty. Roll an arrow and pass one to the left. Roll a sleeping cat and you're lucky to squeak by. But roll a bowl and it's dinner time for kitty! The last player left with mice wins. Details Ages 4 and up 2 to 5 players Playing time: about 15 minutes No reading required Contents 20 wooden mice 2 custom dice kitty bowl rules of play Awards & Acknowledgements Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award Dr. Toy's Best Vacation Products Reinforces Visual Discrimination Counting Recommended Age: 4 and up

Fowl Play Game
How To Play Fowl Play is a fast paced card game that lets you count your chickens in a batch! One, two, three four... Think you can count any more? Five, six, seven, eight ... better stop before it's too late! The more chickens you count, the more points you get. But if you turn over a wolf card, all your points fly the coop! The player with the highest score wins. Details Ages 6 and up 2 or more players Playing time: about 12 minutes Contents 48 cards rules of play Awards & Acknowledgements Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award Dr. Toy's Best Vacation Products Parents' Choice Approved Canadian Toy Testing Council *** (Highest Rating) Parenting Magazine Top Toys for $10 and under Reinforces Counting Recommended Age: 6 and up

Frog Juice Game
About This Game Frog Juice teaches children to think strategically and play competitively in an active meeting of the minds. It requires quick counting skills and keen timing, as players capture cards by matching or adding cards to equal the value of another card. Advanced players will learn about probability. How To Play Cast spells, brew concoctions, melt witches. Use a smidgen of math and a pinch of probability. Capture cards by matching or adding cards from your hand, then count the ingredients and measure the powers. A splash of strategy and, the potion is magic! The player with the most points wins. Details Ages 8 and up 2 to 4 players Playing time: about 20 minutes Contents 59 cards Awards & Acknowledgements Parent's Guide to Children's Media Outstanding Classic Game Parenting for High Potential Magazine Recommended Dr. Toy's Best Classic Toys Reinforces Math Recommended Age: 8 and up

Go Bananas Game
About This Game Go Bananas provides fun, laughter and practice for thinking quickly, developing eye-hand coordination and categorizing numbers and objects. And... it is a game for the mild-mannered, spunky, wild, raucous, calm, silly, and mischievous sides of all children and adults (and probably monkeys). How To Play Get ready to Go Bananas" while playing this happy, slappy card game. Be the first player to spot and slap a pair of matching opposites --- a wild monkey and a mild monkey - and you collect he cards. Keep your eyes peeled for rotten bananas and Gotcha Gators. But be careful not to slip when you slap or else you lose cards. Collect all the cards and you win! Details Ages 6 and up 2 to 5 players Playing time: 12 minutes or less Contents 55 cards rules in Spanish and French rules of play Awards & Acknowledgements Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award iParenting Media Award Canadian Toy Testing Council *** (Highest Rating) Reinforces Visual Discrimination Hand-Eye Coordination Matching Recommended Age: 6 and up"

Granny Apples Game
Roll them apples! In this fast-action dice game, race against your opponents to count the exact number of apples scattered in play. Watch out for birds, worms and apple pies that take away from the total. Count as quickly as you can and be the first to shout out the answer, but don't make a mistake or else you lose half your apples! The player with the most apples when Granny's basket is full wins. Like an apple picked from the orchard, Granny Apples is a refreshing treat that is also good for you! Packed inside of this juicy little game are ingredients for learning the difference between halves vs. wholes while honing quick counting and visual identification skills. At the same time, it reinforces the importance of being accurate when doing mental math. And to top it off, since each player takes turns being the judge, the game helps to strengthen listening and attention skills. Smart on the outside . Fun to the core! Details 2 to 6 players Playing time: 15 minutes Contents 8 wood apples 10 half apple tokens 75 whole apple tokens apple basket Awards & Acknowledgements Dr. Toy's Best Vacation Products iParenting Media Award Canadian Toy Testing Council *** (Highest Rating) Parenting Magazine Toy of the Year Recommended Age: 8 and up

Hats Off Game
Put on your game cap for a frenzied round of hat matching mania. Hold three hat cards in your hand and balance one on top of your head. Be the first to match the center hat card and collect the pair. But don't drop your hat or else someone can yell "Hats Off!" and steal a card! Win the most cards and crown yourself the top hat.

Hisss Game
In this simple, elegant card game, players match colors and and make snakes from heads to tails. Long snakes, short snakes, purple, yellow and rainbow snakes. Finish a snake and add it to your snake pit. The player with the most snakes at the end of the game wins. As each Hisss snake slithers its way across the playing area it introduces color identification and visual logic: Does it make sense to have a snake with two tails and no head? Are those two colors the same or not? Even elementary counting skills come into play during scoring at the end of the game. Details 2 to 5 players Playing time: about 15 minutes No reading required Contents 50 durable cards rules in Spanish and French Awards & Acknowledgements Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award FamilyFun Magazine Toy of the Year Finalist Canadian Toy Testing Council *** (Highest Rating) Recommended Age: 4 and up

Hocus Focus Game
How To Play Set your sights on Hocus Focus. The fast-paced card game of visual trickery. Look carefully at the cards-the small, medium and large wizards all appear the same but are actually slightly different. Be the first to spot a wizard that has nothing in common with the one in the center and "Kazaam!" you keep him. The player who captures the most cards is the wizard whiz! Details Ages 6 and up 2 or more players Playing time: about 12 minutes Contents 48 cards rules in Spanish and French rules of play Awards & Acknowledgements Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award Dr. Toy's Best Vacation Products Games Magazine Top 100 Game Canadian Toy Testing Council *** (Highest Rating) Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award iParenting Media Award Reinforces Visual Discrimination Color Identification Recommended Age: 6 and up

Horse Show Game
Horse Show lets children play a strategic game based on horse shows, learning about authentic tack and actual show events. The horses themselves are the game's characters, with lively personalities felt through the illustrations. The child becomes the rider; grooming and braiding before a show, watching a horse at pasture, and jumping clean a stadium hurdle.

In a Pickle Game
About This Game We love games like In a Pickle that get the creative juices flowing. This is a great game to break out when you need to stretch your brain. See how outrageous you can get with the scenarios you create. At the same time, challenge yourself (and your opponents) to think outside the norm and picture scenes that might otherwise seem preposterous. The more you play, the more you will see that there's more inside a word than you might expect! How To Play Can a giraffe fit in a phone booth? Does a sofa fit in a shopping cart? It all depends on how you size it up in this game of creative thinking and outrageous scenarios. Try to win a set of cards by fitting smaller things into bigger things - There's some juice in a pickle, in a supermarket, in a parking lot. Play the fourth word card to claim the set, unless one of your opponents can trump with a larger word. The player with the most sets at the end is the BIG winner! Details Ages 10 and up 2 to 6 players Playing time: 20 to 30 minutes Contents 300 cards Awards & Acknowledgements National Parenting Center Seal of Approval Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award Dr. Toy's 10 Best Games of The Year Dr. Toy's Top 100 Children's Products Scholastic Instructor Magazine Best of 2004 iParenting Media Award Canadian Toy Testing Council *** (Highest Rating) Reinforces Creativity & Imagination Recommended Age: 10 and up

K-9 Capers Game
How To Play Nine pooches are dressed to the nines in K-9 Capers card game where the dogs steal the show! Roll the die and use your memory to find dogs hiding in the game board. The only catch is that you must collect them in numerical order! The first player to collect all nine canines in a row wins the blue ribbon. Details Ages 6 and up 2 to 4 players Playing time: about 12 minutes Contents 36 dog cards 1 custom die rules in Spanish and French rules of play Awards & Acknowledgements Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award Dr. Toy's Best Vacation Products Parents' Choice Recommended Canadian Toy Testing Council *** (Highest Rating) Reinforces Memory Counting Matching Recommended Age: 6 and up