This game includes a quad-fold game board, 32 houses, 12 hotels, eight skyscrapers, four train depots, 37 title deed cards (including new states), 16 chance cards, 16 community chest cards, 16 bus tickets, two dice, one “speed die,” a pad of money (including new $1,000 bills), a banker’s tray and full-color illustrated rules. Compared to the original Monopoly, this edition has a 50 percent bigger game board, it can play faster with the special speed die, and players really have the opportunity to own it all, according to Marketing Coordinator Irena Malek-Strumpf of Winning Moves Games. Launch date: Fall 2006.

An expanded version of the mind-boggling classic, Rubik’s 5x5 is the most challenging Rubik’s Cube ever made. Rubik’s 5x5, also known as Rubik’s Professor, has more than 10 billion combinations, more combinations than any other puzzle in the world. Featuring the iconic Rubik’s Cube design and color concept, Rubik’s 5x5 is a real handful. It comes with a black plastic cube stand.
— “Rubik’s Cube,” Denis Hofsetter told TDmonthly, when asked which item was his 2007 best-seller. “We sold out.” Dennis is the owner of The Toy Store in Atlanta, Ga.
— Manny Rocha, general manager of Mr. G’s Toys & Expressions in Los Angeles, Calif., said that his store “sold four gross” of Winnning Moves’ Rubik’s Cube.
— Five percent of 62 retailers who spoke with TDmonthly singled out this item as their store’s 2007 best-seller.

Now young minds have a Rubik's Cube they can master. Although ideal for introducing a child to the concept invented by Rubik, Rubik's Jr. can be tried by anyone who finds the more traditional version too difficult to tackle.
— Kevin Tjaden, owner for 25 years of Scientific Wizardry in Boise, Idaho, was glad he’d stocked Rubik’s Cube, since it was featured in the holiday hit “The Pursuit of Happyness” starring Will Smith.
— Mary Walsh, owner of The Magical Child in Greenfield, Mass., wished she’d stocked more of the “old, standard Rubik’s Cube.”
— A 25th anniversary edition of Rubik’s Cube is also available.

Rubik's Sudoku combines the best of two of the greatest puzzles of all time - it's Sudoku without the pencil and without all the erasing, and a process for solving the puzzle that will appeal to fans of both Sudoku and Rubik's(R) alike. Players try to fill a nine-by-nine grid so that each row and each column contain the numbers 1 through 9, and also that each three-by-three grid contains each of theses numbers. Instead of a pen, moveable pieces with numbers and in nine different colors are set on the board and the number finding process can begin! A storage tray and a booklet with 100 starter puzzles and solutions make this a take-anywhere, play-anytime puzzle.

Imagine the intriguing and hugely popular Chinese tile game, Mah Jongg, meeting one of America’s long-time favorites, Gin Rummy, and you get the fresh, fascinating and fast-paced Forbidden. Forbidden is designed in beautiful Chinese zodiac imagery, with Royal cards featuring the Dragon, Monkey and Emperor, which will give players special powers and bonus points. The goal of the game is to accumulate 200 points over several rounds of play, as players form sets and runs and strive to be the first to “Cheng” (go out). But be careful, don’t get caught with Forbidden cards as they can be the most dangerous ones.

One of America’s most recognized games now has a new cat and mouse theme! Two to four players race their mice around the game board with the ultimate goal of being the first to have all four mice reach the cheese feast. Once the mice are on the board, players move them according to the roll of the dice. You may get to draw a Cheese Card, form a blockade, roll again, or land on a safe spot. This fun game is packed with so many surprises that a player’s luck can change instantly. Parents and kids alike love this game!

1980, the year Olympic skater Michelle Kwan and pop-singer Christina Aguilera were born, President Ronald Reagan was in the White House and millions of Americans were tuning into the TV show Dallas, was also “the year of the Cube!” Now a pop-culture icon, the first Rubik’s Cube made its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York in 1980, and within just two years, 100 million “Cubes” were in households from Peoria, Ill. to Paris. The cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 combinations and can be solved by true aficionados in as few as 16 seconds. It’s a great time to pick up the Cube again. The 25th Anniversary Edition Rubik’s Cube comes in a collectable silver packaging and with a free Rubik’s Cube stand.