Tuesday 22 November 2011

Board Games - Part 4

More board games (all this information is in the shop so if you need a reminder, just ask at the counter and we'll give you a hand-out)

Ten Green Bottles (Orchard Toys) Ages 3-6


Can you be the first to recycle all ten of your green bottles? This very simple game, based on the popular song, helps children with number recognition while having fun. The game can be played with 2 to 4 players, and is suitable for players aged between 3 and 6. Each player makes up their jigged wall board, and places their green bottles, numbered 1 to 10, across the top. The 40 spotty cards are placed face down in the centre of the table, and the first player starts by turning up one of the spotty cards. If the number of spots on the card matches the number shown on one of the bottles on the player's wall, the player takes both cards and posts them into the bottle bank. If the card shows a number that the player has already posted, the card is put back on the table. When a player matches the last bottle on their wall with a spotty card, they win the game and sing "There are no green bottles standing on the wall". This game helps children with their number skills, as they have to count the spots on the card and connect the card with the correct numeral printed on the bottle. You could add play value by using either the spotty cards or the bottles to play 'Pairs', and you can ask children to add the numbers on the bottles or the spotty cards together.
Enhances maths skills and number recognition
• Suitable for ages 3 to 6
• For 2 - 4 players
• Encourages re-cycling
• Brightly illustrated game
$39.95




Anti-Virus Ages 7+


Put your body and mind to work and get rid of the red virus! A virus has invaded your system. Can you get rid of it before it can multiply itself? This game is more mind challenging to solve than it looks. As you'd imagine, there is not a lot of room in a cell, so the virus and all different shaped molecules are constantly blocking each others path. And what's more, everything moves in a special way: the tiles can only slide diagonally and can move in a group! No one is immune to the infectious fun this sliding game brings. The 60 challenges keep your body and mind healthy. Young and old alike are quick to catch the bug -- once you've started playing you won't want to stop!
• Builds logistical skills
$29.95


Greedy Pirates Ages 3-7


A fun counting and collecting game. Roll the dice to sail around the board grabbing more treasure than the other greedy pirates. Use counting strategies to reach the treasure, but beware of the other pirates ships who are looking to steal it from you. Win by having the most treasure.
Silver Award Good Toy Guide 2008
$34.95



Smart Car Ages 3-8


There are 4 wooden pieces that you need to assemble into a car. Sounds Easy?? It’s not. There are 48 challenges where the model remains the same but the car construction plans get more complex. Think you car is ready? It might not be as the eyes need to stay on the road. This is a multi-level single player game that will keep children 3-8 occupied for hours. Great for developing logical thinking and visual/spatial perception.
$38.50



Bogoss glow in the dark strategy game (Djeco) Ages 6-10


A fantastic glow in the dark strategy game. Find 6 pars of a skeleton, but be careful of broken bones. An exchange game with phosporescent cards so you can also play in the dark!
The winner is the first to lay down 2 complete skeletons or 1 broken skeleton.

$29.95



Mindtrap Ages 12+


This is an exciting Lateral Thinking Game. Players break up into teams. Each team selects a scoring token and places it on the appropriate path on the game board. Teams are also given shape pieces and sticks that match their token's colour.
Teams decide which group goes first. A member of the team whose turn it isn't is selected to read the question. The reader draws a card, then reads the question aloud to his/her team, then flips the card over and silently reads the answer.
The choice of the question depends upon the color of the space that the answering team's token is sitting on. A purple space yields a mystery question -- the object is to solve the mystery. A pink space represents picture/sticks/shape puzzles, and a blue space represents miscellaneous questions. Finally, a space with an "M" is a wild space where the answering team chooses the style of question they prefer.
If a correct answer is given, the team receives one point and then chooses to either answer another question or roll the dice for a number of bonus points (the dice has numbers 0, 1, 2 and 3.)
If the team answers incorrectly, the opponent team (without the member reading the question) is allowed to answer. If correct, they receive a bonus point.
Once the dice have been rolled, or a question was answered incorrectly, the other team is asked the questions.
The game ends when one team reaches the end of the board.
$37.95



Master Labyrinth Ages 10-15



















S’Match Ages 4+



A Memory Matching Game with a Spin! A new take on the classic memory game, S'Match challenges young players to find matching pairs by color, number or category. Only here, it's the S'Match Spinner that decides which way to match-and every player gets a spin! Pictures and words allow pre-readers and early readers to play together and enjoy hours of memory-building fun
$38.00


Based on the simpler Amazing Labyrinth game, this one is played on a board with maze tiles arranged on it. Players are represented on the board by little wizard pawns. Players are wizards-in-training and they are charged with running around the maze and finding all the ingredients (numbered chips) needed to become a Wizard. The trick is that the two chip cannot be taken until the one chip is taken, and the three chip cannot be taken until the two chip is taken, etc.
Perhaps the most novel aspect of this game is that players mutate the maze by sliding a tile onto the board from the side, which hopefully will enable them to travel to the next ingredient. Once all twenty-one items have been taken, the highest total score wins!
• Enjoy the master edition of the famous Labyrinth series!
• Shift the corridors of the labyrinth as your adventurers endeavor to claim the legendary treasure from the dragon's refuge.
• But beware! In the middle of the maze, a mighty dragon sits enthroned on a mountain of gold.
• He is defending his booty against those who dare to plunder.
• Who'll obtain the most valuable treasure and defeat the dragon?
$59.95



Camelot Jr from ‘Smart Games’ Ages 4-8


Can you build a stairway so the knight can rescue the princess? Create a path using the different shaped pieces of wooden towers and stairs. There is 48 different path configurations that need to be figured out - all increasing difficulty.
This unique multi-level logic game helps to develop logic thinking and fine motor skills, as well as spatial insight and creative imagination. 48 multi-level challenges of increasing difficulty.
Contains: game rules, booklet with 48 challenges and solutions, hardwood game tray, 4 wooden towers, 3 wooden stairways, 1 bridge and 2 figurines.
$38.50



Hot Cocot (from Biovia) Ages 6+
Cluck... Cluck... Quick! There are six hard boiled eggs to eat but only 5 cups on the table! Anything goes - well almost. The aim is to get your egg into the cup using chop sticks. No easy task. Who will be quick with their hands and not left holding the last egg and which of you will be the most skillful?

With the aid of two sticks try to quickly position your eggs in one egg cup. At each turn a player is eliminated because it lacks a egg cup at the center of the table.
Be quick at the end, there will be more than one!
For 2 to 6 players. All wooden from plantation timber.




Sleeping Queens Ages 8+


Imagine a place where there's a queen of all pancakes, a king of cookies and a pack of over-protective dragons. If this sounds like something out of a dream, it actually is! Sleeping Queens was invented by 6-year-old Miranda Evarts, who thought up the game one night when she couldn't fall asleep. She awoke the next morning and with help from her older sister, Madeleine and her parents, Denise and Max created this wonderfully whimsical world of napping nobles. As you immerse yourself in the Evarts' fantasyland, you will find a game that helps develop memory, strategy, and elementary arithmetic skills. Just be careful when playing potion cards or you could wind up putting all the players to sleep!
Rise and Shine! The Pancake Queen, the Ladybug Queen and ten of their closest friends have fallen under a sleeping spell and it's your job to wake them up. Use strategy, quick thinking and a little luck to rouse these napping nobles from their royal slumbers. Play a knight to steal a queen or take a chance on a juggling jester. But watch out for wicked potions and dastardly dragons! The player who wakes the most queens wins. This is one of our best sellers.
$24.95



Link Mind Challenge Series (Dr Wood) Age 8+


Simply place all 8 tiles on the playing board so that all sides link with each other in a perfect colour match. Can you solve the puzzle in under 20 minutes? Single Player Game.
The Mind Challenge series of game is a line of fun, devious, intriguing and compelling puzzles from simple games that can be solved in 10 minutes or fiendishly difficult ones that will take a lifetime to master.
Mind Challenge Ltd is an award winning Australian company based on the work of Psychologist Dr Mark Wood and Mathmetician Frank Dyksterhuis
$19.95




Outburst Ages 12+


Bring Outburst to your next party -- your friends will never stop talking about it! Outburst is the uproariously funny adult game of common knowledge that people have been shouting about for years! And since one good Outburst deserves another, we've updated the topics and answers -- for hours of non-stop fun. Quick! You've got 60 seconds to shout out "Parts of the Body that Come in Pairs". What do you think are the answers listed on the card? No matter how numerous or humorous your choices are, you only get credit for the words that appear on the card. So spout off everything you can think of as you try to score all 10. Can you name "10 Slang Terms for Money"... or... "10 Movie Studios"? Pick from hundreds of topics, for thousands of verbal explosions -- and hours of fun! Aren't you ready for a really good outburst!
$24.95

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