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PELICAN COVE Speed Logic Game

Logic games are really popular in our family. We have several single-player logic games, which we all love. We use them for math work and my kids enjoy playing them independently. We do love single player logic games, but THIS logic game is extra special and awesome because it is a multi-player logic game, the […]

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TSURO: PHOENIX RISING Tile Placement Astronomy/Mythology Game

Games

Tsuro is back with a fresh new look and more complexity, but the same fantastic Zen-like energy. Instead of traveling the path of life, you will be guiding your Phoenix along its path through the dark night sky. Each Phoneix races to be the first to reach the Lanterns scattered across the board to earn […]

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ALMANAC: THE DRAGON ROAD Economics/Exploration Worker Placement Game

Board Games

You’ve read about the world’s great explorers: Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, Henry Hudson, Amerigo Vespucci…they traveled to new and distant lands, they traded for supplies, they had adventures, and now you can too! Almanac: The Dragon Road is an adventure filled caravanning, traveling, trading, exploring board game with unique and beautifully designed elements. Players travel […]

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DRAGOMINO Dragon Domino Matching Game

Early Elementary

One of life’s greatest pleasures is playing legitimately fun games with children, especially 4/5 year olds. They are so easily delighted, and playing this game is especially delightful! Dragomino is a My First Kingdomino game so it’s similar but much simpler as far as new domino placement and also scoring. It’s a quick game (about […]

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CASTLE PANIC Cooperative Tower Defense Game

Board Games

CALLING ALL MONSTER SLAYERS, ORC WARRIORS, AND GOBLIN GETTERS!!! These ruffian creatures are hiding in the shadows of the forest surrounding the castle and it is YOUR JOB to gather your army and put up a defense. You will defeat the monsters together or be defeated together in a cooperative Panic to save the castle! […]

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MACHI KORO City Building Economics Card Game

Card Games

City Building is something we do on a daily basis at our house…blocks, dominoes, Legos, magnatiles, cushions and blankets… we are practiced builders, so a city building card game is right up our alley! Machi Koro is a really fun, very interactive, fast-paced, easy-to-learn game for 2-4 players, ages 10+, in 30 minutes. (My almost […]

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ASYMBOL Creative Reasoning Picture Game

Board Games

What do you get when you combine wooden shapes with word cards with NO TALKING allowed? A super fun creative and imaginative game that helps kids develop a visual vocabulary and life skills. Asymbol takes geometric forms and shapes and mashes them up with imagination to help kids to work on complex pattern challenges. There […]

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SONORA Flick & Write Dexterity Game

Board Games

As a native Oregonian, it took me a while to learn to appreciate desert beauty. The colors of this game were the first thing I came to love about the desert – the reds and oranges and the sunsets!!! The desert truly is a “place of vast beauty: technicolor sunsets, deep canyons, trickling tributaries, and […]

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BLUE LAGOON Island Settlement Game

Board Games

If you live in a cold-winter place, Blue Lagoon is the perfect game to bring back memories of sand and sunshine. It’s an area control/set collection game where players try to collect resources and spread their settlements and villages as far and wide as possible. Game components include settler discs and village huts in four […]

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ADVENTURE LAND Battle Explorer Grid Game

Board Games

If you’re looking for a strategy game, this one has it all! Adventure, mysticism, companionship, herbs, swords, battles…this is s a great beginning strategy game for young board game players. It’s can also be fairly complex with three different Adventure Scenarios to satisfy even the most seasoned board gamer! Each scenario indicates how points are […]

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