The fast-paced football strategy game comes packaged in an extra-sturdy, deep-dish style pizza box. In this intense and realistic head-to-head battle, football fans of all ages can feel like a coach, a player and a fan all at once. Expansion packs are also available. “We have the coolest free giveaway every year,” Erik Smith of On the Line Game Company told TDmonthly. “We let people download free team cards made especially so that they can play the Super Bowl before it happens and predict the winner.” Launch date: April 2005.

This game helps children to develop basic strategic thinking in a team environment. Not a typical “race to the finish” game, The Spider’s Web gives players the opportunity to make a simple choice about which direction they want to move. Four firefly players must find a way to escape from the web before the single Spider player captures them.

MathAnimals is an exciting new game that teaches and reinforces addition, subtraction or multiplication skills for children for all ages. With the roll of a die, players race around the colorful game board trying to land their playing piece on the animal that represents the highest number. Then they either add, subtract or multiply the number on the die to the number they have landed on. The winner is the first to have their grand total reach the “goal”, a number that is set at the beginning of each new game. With more than 6 variations of game play, MathAnimals will continue to stimulate learning and grow with your child for years to come. MathAnimals as won many awards and honors, including iParenting Media – Outstanding Products, 2006; The National Parenting Center – Seal of Approval, 2006; and The National Association for Gifted Children – inclusion in the 10th annual Holiday Educational Toy List 2006.

Just as bees move from flower to flower collecting nectar to create honey, kids will move around the Spelling Bees game board collecting letters to create words. With two levels of play, children of all ages will enjoy this unique and educational spelling game. While younger children work to collect letters that spell simple words, older children are challenged by collecting letters for more difficult words. Older children will also share and learn interesting facts about honey bees as they try to collect the most pollen and nectar points to win the game. Spelling Bees is all kids need to learn their ABC’s.

In this new board game designed by Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc, players compete to build an ancient Egyptian palace, while resisting the lure of corruption. The game includes a 3-D palace that players really compete to build as they strive to become the wealthiest of Cleopatra’s architects. But the most corrupt architect will be sacrificed to Cleopatra’s sacred crocodile. Cleopatra and the Society of Architects is for 3 to 5 players and takes approximately 60 minutes to play. It is due to launch in the United States in June 2006. The German version was released in the beginning of 2006.

Letterpress craftsmen of centuries past used to hide words within a block of text as a challenge to their peers. They called this past time vedere parola. To bring this rich tradition at low expense to a broad audience, Front Porch Classics has created Discovery edition WordSpot, a timeless game where players try to find hidden words within an arranged board of lettered tiles. It's an addictive, two player version of the Sunday crossword.

Kids will get creeped out, educated and have fun all at once with this Bingo game that teaches them about cockroaches, ants and mayflies. Each Bingo kit comes with six playing boards, markers and 42 Bingo cards, which have pertinent information about bugs on the backs. A teacher’s edition with 18 playing boards is also available. Other Bingo kits include Lewis & Clark, United States, Colorado, Birds and many more.

As in regular Bingo, one player needs to be the caller and distribute the playing boards to the other 1 to 5 players. The caller shuffles the cards and calls them out, one at a time. If the card called is on a player’s board, then he or she places a marker on that picture. The first one to have a filled line wins. Children will learn about different wildflowers while playing a fun game of chance. Each Bingo kit comes with 6 playing boards, markers and 42 Bingo cards, which have pertinent information about wildflowers on the backs. A teacher’s edition with 18 playing boards is also available.

Astrological fans can find their star powers with Upper Deck Entertainment’s new What’s Your AstroStyle? Board Game. In a game that reveals more than just your sign, the AstroTwins™ (Teen People Magazine Astrologers Tali and Ophira Edut) guide you in learning more about friends’ hopes and dreams with this exciting new game. Complete with more than one hundred different questions and real-life astrological answers, players will have plenty of chances to reveal fun secrets about friends and yourself.

The board game is a great opportunity to play with friends and chat about love, life and style in a fun, dynamic and astrological way.

AstroStyle is a brand created by the identical twin Edut sisters. In addition to contributing editors to Teen People Magazine’s Horoscope section, the AstroTwins also write columns for AOL’s Teen Channel and have over 12 million readers a month with top columns in AOL Red, Sanrio.com, and Oh! The Oxygen Network.

Wits & Wagers is trivia made fun. Not a trivia buff? It doesn’t matter. Wits & Wagers brings out the excitement of a Vegas casino by letting you bet on the answers of other players. So you can win by making educated guesses, playing the odds or knowing the interests of your friends. Strike it big with one of your friend’s high payout answers and you’ll be cheering like you just hit the jackpot. Wits & Wagers has received 10 industry awards including Games Magazine's 2007 Party Game of the Year and the Mensa Mind Game award. Wits & Wagers takes two minutes to explain and 25 minutes to play, and can be enjoyed by up to 20 people. It is the perfect after-dinner activity at large family get-togethers or late night parties. (See Review)

Players each begin game play from their own trailer and go through town, collecting “Redneck” things like a bag ‘o jerky and a hound dog to bring back home. The first Redneck to collect everything and return to his trailer wins. On each turn, he picks from three choices that correctly complete one of Jeff Foxworthy’s Redneck jokes. Launch date: May 2006.

Guest Host, the Celebrity Talk Show Game, allows players to be host of their very own talk show. However, they don't always know the names of their celebrity guests. Players compete to guess the identity of the 500 guests that could be interviewed. Be careful, because the guest could be fictional, nonfictional, past or present (for example, anyone from Adam and Eve to Zorro). The player that reaches the desk by correctly identifying guests becomes Guest Host of his or her own talk show. Featured on the "Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” this attractively packaged game plays extremely well.

In Stranded, time machine travel takes players to great events in American history, from the Mayflower's landing at Plymouth Rock to the Wright Brothers' takeoff at Kitty Hawk, and from Paul Revere's biggest date to the Gold Rush of '48. But the trick is getting from one to the other without getting stuck! Fun and suspense mount as every move makes return to the present a little bit tougher. Simple but well-timed strategies are key to being the last remaining player and winner of the game. Fast-paced, friendly and educational too, Stranded is for 2 to 4 players and approximate playing time is 30 minutes. The package includes 1 Game Board, 1 set of rules, 4 pieces, 1 color die and 48 colored Time Machine Circles.

Questionary is setting new standards of entertainment in the board games arena. Every player has vouched of never having had so much fun before. The concept is simple: A team has to guess a word in 90 seconds by asking as many questions as they wish. But answers can be only "Yes" or "No." Passionate involvement of all rather than performance of one sets this game apart. And the aspect that will appeal to specialty retailers? This attractive boardgame is simple to play, generates outrageous fun, and promotes strategic thinking. Spark Games provide “extreme fun for all. Even shy people love to play again and again,” the company’s Arun Pandey told TDmonthly. This product received a 2006 Preferred Choice Award from Creative Child Magazine.

Sentence Says Dice Edition is hilarious fun for the entire family to play at home or on the road. Draw an action card and read the sentence instruction. Now roll the letter dice to see what letters you will get to create your sentence. Hurry, the timer's running out! What will your sentence say? For the letters: F, L, S, I and P, how about "Frogs like singing in ponds?" Opponents judge a winning sentence and can steal it if you're not careful. The game is for 2 to 4 players and includes 4 consonant dice, 2 vowel dice, 1 danger die, 1 steal die, 40 action cards and a dice cup.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to play Go for Launch!, but, if not careful, a player could become one! The Go For Launch! board game shows kids how to prepare a Space Shuttle for launch to journey through: Deep Space, Early Rocketry, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Apollo-Soyuz, Sky-Lab, Astronomy, Planetary Exploration, Space Shuttle, Mir Space Station, Space Spin-Offs and more!.This game is fun for the whole family and great for classrooms. The Go For Launch! board game depicts Complex 39 of the Kennedy Space Center as it exists today. It is designed for one to four players or teams of players. This game was “launched” in January, 2006.

With the award-winning Christmas Gamesake(R), friends and family create a fabulous and hilarious board game with favorite family memories. Simply jot down your favorite memories on cards (Dad backs car into garage, miss 1 turn to repair it. Love, Kate) and race opponents to the North Pole (the board can be personalized too). Winner of The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval and a Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award, Christmas Gamesake(R) is sure to be a beloved family tradition.

This beautiful wooden game set includes Mancala, one of the most ancient and widely played games in the world and, on the reverse side of the board, the modern straight ahead gammon game of Uthini? with its 19 traditional symbols from Africa. The frame is carved with detailed African animals that form a link between an Egyptian scene on one end and Cape Town, South Africa on the other. The carved base is molded from recycled plastic and can also be used as a small storage container for the colorful glass marbles and dice.

Bearing the slogan, "The unpredictible party game that gives random a new name," this unusual game for families and friends challenges players to escape from the off-beat land of Quelf. But it's not easy. As characters move down a topsy-turvy, colorful brick road surrounded by pink blimps and peculiar creatures, they must answer bizarre questions and meet peculiar demands in order to advance. One player may be asked, "How many fingers and toes combined do four one-legged weathermen and three blind, armless, retired submarine commanders have?" Another may be told, "For the remainder of the game, every sentence that you speak must end with the words: 'Hear me, for I have spoken.' If you forget, pay the penalty." The game has 550 cards, eight game pieces, a game board, two pencils and a pad of paper, one die and one timer, as well as a giant invisible harpoon.

The game is for all children, all cultures and all countries. The intructions are in English, Spanish, French and Chinese. "This game should be in every home and school", Sandy Frank, Chairman, Sandy Frank Entertainment, New York, NY.

The year is 1889. The Paris World's Fair is the most popular place to be, and the masses marvel at the latest technical achievement on exhibit. Meanwhile, the big industrial trusts, supported by their governments, are planning their next step — the conquest of Mars and the mining of the fantastic ores found in its subsoil. In Mission: RED PLANET players control one of these big corporations. They try to recruit the best scientists and astronauts and launch rockets both to explore the planet and to take control of the most promising places before anyone else arrives. Spies and armed forces are also required since this unexplored world is full of secrets and dangers. It exists many thousands of kilometers away from the nearest journalists, socialists and other such troublemakers resulting in no-holds-barred competition.

Part board game, part card game, Quinto has its roots in an ancient Roman board game called "Calculi" or "Five in a Row. Players or teams compete to capture strategic positions on the Quinto game board. Every game is full of twists and turns as players try to capture their opponents' pieces and block their moves in an effort to score points. "Wild Kings", "Quick Quintos", and "Double Quintos" are just a few of the many facets that add depth to this game. Because Quinto is best played in teams (4 or 6 players is ideal), Quinto is good for parties as well as the rainy day at home.

For 2 to 6 players, this 90-minute game has players climb aboard their chosen dragon and race off across the board. Players choose their own speed secretly, which could hinder or help them because those that travel at slower speeds are more able to maneuver their dragons through perilous canyons and unpredicted road blocks. The track is made of 2-sided tiles so that players can design their own races and change them every race to keep the game fun and exciting.

Two players compete in this 20- to 40-minute game of stategy to link two opposite sides by placing and moving 19 white and 19 black pieces on a game board. The trick is to mislead one's opponent so that she doesn't catch on as to where or when the connection will be made. Otherwise, she could punk you.