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Young players will love the bright, finger-puppet inspired characters on the hand-shaped cards. This colorful deck features lions, penguins, dogs, monkeys and many other familiar images. Three games in one. The game features different ways to build matching skills, hand-eye coordination and memory skills. Ideal for preschool and elementary school children. Launch date: February 2012.

Space Checkers combines the luck of dice with the strategy of checkers. Players capture opponents' flying saucers by jumping over them. The first race to collect any 10 ships wins the game. Launch date: June 2012.
Awards: 2012 Tillywig Best Family Fun Award

Players must try to make as many connections between tiles as they can before the timer runs out. Players can be as creative as they like, but their fellow players will decide if their play counts or not. Fast-paced and perfect for a crowd. Launch date: June 2012.

Choose a Side, Roll the Dice, Rule the World. Can flying saucers and death rays beat out tanks, nukes and troopers? Find out with Army vs. Aliens, a fun take on alien invasion games. Eighteen custom dice—9 for each team—deliver full-value fun. The handy guides help players plan their battle moves. The game also features two dice cups that snap together to double as a carrying case for portability and play-anywhere fun. Launch date: November 2011.

Twisty Word Fun! Lexigo is a challenging new game for word lovers from Wiggles 3D. Players add letter tiles to a grid to spell out words. What's unique about this game is that words can be spelled in any direction – forwards, backwards or in a twisting path. Players can also bump each other's pawns off tiles to gain an edge in this fast-paced game.
Awards:  2010 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Toy Award, Gold Seal.

Kids Learn to Go Green with the Eco Squad Kids are challenged to go green in a playful way with Eco Squad from Wiggles 3D. This Green Solutions Card Game offers young players a fun way to learn about Earth's air, water, energy and fossil resources.

Villa Paletti is the 10-time international award-winning game of construction chaos. Players build a tower together. The higher it goes, the shakier it becomes. Starting with all the components on the base, the goal is to see how high you can build the Villa before it topples. This German Game of the Year is now a Wiggles 3D brand and features all new packaging for great impact. "This game is universal in its appeal as anyone of any age and skill may play and be successful. The cooperative nature of the game is mixed with the competitive goals to create a truly unique game play dynamic," President Don Reid of Wiggles 3D Incorporated told TDmonthly. Launch date: October 30, 2008.

The massive popularity of movies makes this pop culture game a natural party favorite. This fast-paced, 2-player card and board game is fun for both casual and hard core movie fans. It's also two games in one: Movie Matching Game – Identify movies from hints that are given and be the first to cover your game tiles to win.  Bonus - Star Connection Card Game – Match actors together based upon films they have been in with other actors. It's a great game to use as a cross-promotion with a popcorn vendor or as a party end aisle! It's also ideal for Holiday and Oscar Party promotions in February.

This visual trivia betting game for two to six players combines the best of trivia and poker in a game where cards and game chips are collected throughout the game as players identify amazing visuals, answer compelling trivia questions and bet on what they know. "The combination of identifying images, answering trivia questions and betting on what you know makes it a game that appeals to a broad market," Nancy Joyal of Wiggles 3D told TDmonthly. Eye Know received a 2008 Mensa Select award and a 2008 Game of the Year Award from Creative Child Magazine. Launch date: August/September 2007.

It’s a whole new deal with Don’t Quote Me pentagon-shaped playing cards featuring FIVE suits. Play your favourite card games with hearts, diamonds, spades, clubs and now QUOTES. Famous quotations are included on every card for added enjoyment. Play with four or five suits. Each deck includes 65 plastic coated cards, 2 Jokers and instructions. Assorted 24-pack includes eight decks from each of: Funny Quotes, Sports Quotes and Famous People Quotes. THIS PRODUCT HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED.

Active families and friends on the go can enjoy playing the award-winning Don’t Quote Me magnetic travel games wherever their travels take them. The travel games feature 250 quotes and questions, magnetic pawns and a built-in magnetic game board, all in a secure flip-top box. Three titles are available. THIS PRODUCT HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED.

Co-branded with Time Inc.’s TIME For Kids newsmagazine, this fun travel game explores the world through quotes and questions in five great categories. Each question provides interesting and fun facts that kids love. The game features magnetic pawns, a built-in game board and a secure magnetic closure, all in a high quality flip-top box. Question cards are fully interchangeable with cards from any other Don’t Quote Me game. Magnetic travel versions are also available in the Don't Quote Me - Sports Illustrated and TV Guide editions. THIS PRODUCT HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED.

The all-new Don’t Quote Me – Sports Illustrated Edition board game is packed with quotes and questions covering more than 50 different sports and sports topics, complete with up-to-date stats and facts. With professional sports, amateur athletes, sports movies and TV shows, and everything from baseball and soccer to golf and auto racing to poker and chess, this game offers a knock-out punch. Players explore five different question types in five great categories — team sports, individual sports, vintage questions (pre-1990), sports entertainment, famous nicknames, and more — as they race around an innovative puzzle game board. The new game was developed through license with Time Inc.’s Sports Illustrated magazine — the definitive weekly sports magazine with more than 3 million subscribers and 21 million readers each week.

The Don't Quote Me® - TIME For Kids Edition is an exceptional kids game that´s packed with 1,000 quotes and questions covering topics that kids know and study. Each question provides background information with interesting and fun facts that kids love. Other innovative features include a puzzle game board that players build as they go and a variety of event cards for strategy and action-packed fun! It also comes in a travel game for active friends and families on the go. It won six awards in 2005, including Dr. Toy's Best Vacation Children´s Products 2005, and has won a seventh award in 2007. The awards recognize the excellent play and learning value that the game offers to kids and families alike.

While many games are fun, some games are both fun and informative. In Don’t Quote Me ® by Wiggles 3D Incorporated, players must identify speakers of famous quotations.The game cards contain biographies of the various speakers along with amusing facts that are associated with each quote.The various categories include Leaders, Life & Literature, Pop Culture, The Arts, and Sports.

This award-winning board game, developed through license with TV Guide, features memorable quotations and trivia spanning 50 years of TV and movie history.

A romp through pop culture history, the game features biographies of the speaker and amusing details about each quote. Players have three chances to succeed with every turn, using hints and multiple-choice options to identify the speaker of famous quotations.