December 2010 Notable Toys — General Games

Kabongo’s exciting online brain play develops thinking skills that underlie learning, inspiring self confidence that contributes to child’s overall success. This product has been enthusiastically embraced in classrooms across the country and now Kabongo’s online brain games are being made available to parents. This game will help parents help their children learn and think.
Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products - 2010

Zippy scooters are speeding round the corner. Who is as fast as the cars and can be the first to place their tiles of Domino Zippy Scooters? This fun car placing game for 2-4 children includes variation for a solo player. Includes 21 big wooden pieces that are perfect for small hands and the easy-to-learn rules are just right for beginners.
Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products - 2010

In Gotcha! players race to hit the buzzer whenever they see someone breaking a rule – all the while making sure they are following the rules themselves!  The more rules that are played, the funnier the game gets, for a mix of laughter and mayhem. Group Rules are displayed for all players to follow, while some players will also have Individual Rules in play.  All eyes are on deck as each player tries to catch the others breaking a rule without compromising their own rules, which can send them back on the game board. 

This game is made up of five moveable electronic screens, each showing a letter. The screens contain a technology that recognizes words when placed side by side. Players move the screens to create words in 75 seconds, using only the letters given. The screens light up and beep when a word is formed, and they also keep time and score.
— As of 1.06.2011 this product had 4 out of 5 stars from 121 reviews on Amazon.com and was No. 7 on the top 100 bestselling toys and games. Pros: Lightweight; portable; three game options. Cons: Game allows some errors in spelling/recognizes words that do not exist.

In this game for 2-4 players, children try to complete a "Wanted" poster by solving simple math problems. Each player chooses a poster board, then draws from the pile of "sum" cards. The player looks for the matching "answer" card, using the "magic spy glass" to determine if the correct card was chosen. If the cards match, the player can place a sticker on his or her "Wanted" poster, and the first player to collect one of each of four types of stickers wins. This game is designed to teach elementary math skills and encourage problem solving.

This memory game for 2-4 players comes with 20 wooden pieces illustrated with images of favorite childhood toys, including dolls, blocks and teddy bears. Players lay the blocks out, then turn them over and try to match picture pairs by memory.

In this game for 2 to 4 players, kids help Farmer Bert find his lost animals. Awards: 2010 iParenting Media Award for Outstanding Product; Parents’ Choice Approved Award, Fall 2010 Games.

Young Learners! games bring a contemporary twist to traditional entertaining and educational board games. Designed to help children recognize sounds, colors and shapes, letters and numbers, as well as develop hand-eye-coordination, practice time telling and improve their social skills, many of the games also encourage children to think about their environment and make healthy choices. In Yummy Scrummy, kids guess what the hungry monsters have eaten as they race to find the healthy food.

Young Learners! games bring a contemporary twist to traditional entertaining and educational board games. Designed to help children recognize sounds, colors and shapes, letters and numbers, as well as develop hand-eye-coordination, practice time telling and improve their social skills, many of the games also encourage children to think about their environment and make healthy choices. Eat Your Words is a snappy word-building game that encourages first spelling and aims to improve letter recognition. Kids make their frog hop from leaf to leaf to the finish line and watch out for the hungry crocodile while building simple words.
Awards: Parent's Choice Award 2011

With Cuponk, players compete to get a ball in a cup by trying to master a series of tricks to make the cup light up and sound off.

This set of trivia cards comes with a classic trivia deck and three themed decks. Players select a "host" who must read the question listed on the card drawn, and the other players pass the deck around, sliding the card up to reveal the correct answer to the question. One player reads the real answer, while the others make up fictional answers, and the host must decide which player is telling the truth. Players can gain points by guessing correctly or by tricking other players into guessing incorrectly, and the player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Build your domain to best your Rivals. The Rivals for Catan puts you in charge of one of the two factions developing newly-settled Catan. Use your under card mix to create your own principality. Explore and settle new lands, acquiring resources through card play and the luck of the dice. Use gold, response combinations, and trade to develop your domaine. Expand your settlements and cities, recruit heroes, and defend your lands through politics, invention, and intrigue. Your cunning and a dash of luck decides who will be Prince of Catan. The Rivals for Catan contains 180 Cards, Production Die, Event Die, Commerce Token, Knight Token, and Rules & Card Index. For 2 players.

This detailed and accurate model of Yankee Stadium features hitting targets placed where the pros hit at the real Stadium, real Yankee Stadium mowing patterns and details, a New York Yankees logo emblazoned in short center-field and true-to-life Yankee Stadium distance markers, scoreboards, logos and dimensions. The tough playing field takes heavy play, and can be removed, autographed and replaced. The model can even be customized with replica ad stickers on the blue signature fence.

As the television character Dexter, players travel through the streets of Miami trying to hunt down a suspect that has slipped through the cracks of the justice system and make them their next victim. Players try to keep their day job by completing blood spatter reports to avoid any suspicion and reap the rewards of a job well done. In the meantime, they try to avoid their opponents, who will expose them, the first chance that they get. Once they have found the suspect and have collected the tools needed, players must head over to the Marina to get rid of the evidence and win the game. The game is for two to four players and contains a board, playing pawns, a six-sided die, on the job cards, on the prowl cards, calling Dexter cards, suspect tokens, tool tokens and mini garbage bags.

This game set includes a wooden cribbage board, a deck of cards, five wooden dice and instructions for 12 different games. Twelve games are featured, but numerous other games can be played with the set.

Red has an exuberant and athletic nature. She also tends to be highly cynical and sometimes teases her friends. Like Gobo, Red likes to take the lead and they sometimes butt heads. This life-size Red plush has a yellowish orange complexion, orange hair, and wears a red sweater.