JUMBULAYA: The Rearranging, Ever-Changing Word Jumble Game
MSRP: $29.95
Age: 10 to Adult
Category: Board Games

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 20204

JUMBULAYA is an award-winning, multi-faceted word strategy game in which players rearrange, add, and trade tiles on the board to build and claim longer and longer words each turn. As players build words horizontally, they also look for a Jumbulaya - a word of seven or more tiles that can be seen vertically on the game board. "Jumbulaya is a word strategy game where players need to THINK ON MULTIPLE LEVELS simultaneously," said Karl Archer, CEO and cofounder of Platypus Games. "It incorporates strategy into the game play, as players are able to add, as well as remove, tiles from the board and think many moves ahead in order to try to win." It has won a 2008 Mensa Select Gold Seal and iParenting Media Award. Launch date: 12/15/2007. 8/25/2008 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

EVOLUTION: The Game That Evolves As You Play
Category: Board Games

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 2287

EVOLUTION: The Game That Evolves As You Play is a party game for teens to adults with 5 distinct phases and 18 different challenges. Players experience the game as teams or “tribes” and advance up the "evolutionary ladder" by working together and playing off each others' strengths and weaknesses. Emerge from the Primordial Ooze and race to become Super Human as you rhyme, decode, decipher, act, draw, sing, mime, read minds and predict the future! EVOLUTION introduces unique competitive elements called SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST and NATURAL SELECTION which allow the tribes to increase the difficulty level for their opposition by devising answers for certain challenges or by selecting their opposing "weakest link" to perform the task at hand. This mega-entertaining, ultra-engaging game will be sure to inspire your newly evolved noggin. 2/3/2005 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]