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Gobblet Goblers
Players: 2
Learn to Play Time:
10 - 15 min.
Game Time:
5 - 10 min.
Gobblet Gobblers is the classic children's strategy game. This game takes the familiar play of Tic-Tac-toe and makes it three dimensional by introducing different sized pieces that can be stacked on top of each other to cover the piece(s) underneath!
Easy to Learn.
Code Master
Players: 1
Learn to Play Time: 10 - 15 min.
Game Time:
about 5 min.
(per level)
Make programming fun by learning the basics without a computer! In Code Master, your Avatar travels to an exotic world in search of power Crystals. Along the way, you use programming logic to navigate the Map. Think carefully, in each level, only one specific sequence of actions will lead to success. Once you collect all the Crystals and land at the Portal, you win!
Easy to Medium Difficulty to Learn. Has a Minecraft feel to it.
Roborally
Players: 2 - 8
Learn to Play Time:
20 - 30 min.
Game Time:
40 - 120 min.
A frenzied race filled with computer driven chaos! At the far end of the galaxy lies a fully automated grid-widget factory. You and the other computers have a little fun at the factory's expense. Pulling defective robots out of the maintenance bay, you pit them against one another in a destructive race across the dangerously cluttered and ever-changing factory floor. One robot will wind up in the winner's circle the rest go on the scrap heap.
Medium to Hard Difficulty to Learn.
Lost Cities: Card Game
Players: 2
Learn to Play Time:
10 - 15 min.
Game Time:
30 - 40 min.
Two explorers embark on research journeys to remote corners of the world: the Himalayan mountains, the Central American rainforest, the Egyptian desert, a mysterious volcano, and the bottom of the sea. As the cards are played, the expedition routes take shape and the explorers earn points. The most daring adventurers make bets on the success of their expeditions. The explorer with the highest score after three rounds of expeditions wins. The rules of the game are simple, but beware: The lost cities hold many unseen mysteries!
Medium Difficulty to Learn.
Sushi Go!
Players: 2 - 5
Learn to Play Time:
5 - 10 min.
Game TIme:
15 - 25 min.
Pass the sushi! In this fast-playing card game, the goal is to grab the best combination of sushi dishes as they whiz by. Score points for making the most maki rolls or for collecting a full set of sashimi. Dip your favorite nigiri in wasabi to triple its value. But be sure to leave room for dessert or else you'll eat into your score! Gather the most points and consider yourself the sushi master!
Easy to Learn
Clue Master
Players: 1
Learn to Play Time:
5 min.
Game Time:
about 5 min.
(per level)
Clue Master is a fun logic game that develops the skill of deductive reasoning, a key ability in math, science, computer programming, and many other fields. In this game, you may deduce information based on what must be true even though you can't see it directly. The more you play, the more deductive tricks and strategies you'll learn as you reason logically from the clues you're given.
Easy to Learn
Blokus
Players: 2 -4
Learn to Play Time:
5 - 10 min.
Game Time:
15 - 25 min.
Blokus is a board game with simple rules and lots of strategy! Place your colored pieces on the game board, but remember that they have to touch only the corner of at least one of the game pieces you have already played. As you play the block game, you will need to plan ahead to stretch into new territory and play you pieces before you run out of space! Once you learn to play Blokus, you'll want to keep trying new strategies to take over the board.
Easy to Learn
Temple Trap
Players: 1
Learn to Play:
5 min.
Game Time:
about 5 min.
(per level)
Avoid the alligators and other dangerous traps as you navigate your adventurer out of this shifting temple, flexing your logic muscles in this unique, beautifully designed 3-D puzzle. With puzzles ranging from simple challenges for beginning adventures to complex puzzles that will test advanced treasure hunters, Temple Trap is a fun way to develop logical thinking skills and spatial reasoning abilities.
Easy to Learn
Code Monkey Island
Players: 2 - 4
Learn to Play:
5 - 10 min.
Game Time: 35 - 45 min.
Welcome to Code Monkey Island, the board game designed to teach players of all ages computer science logic! As the wise leader of your own tribe of monkeys, it's up to you to guide all three of your monkeys safely around the board and into the banana grove. You'll have to use concepts like conditional statements, looping, booleans, assignment operators and more to earn moves for your monkeys, dodge quicksand traps, and score some delicious fruit along the way! After its successful Kickstarter campaign, Code Monkey Island is being used in thousands of homes and classrooms around the world, helping children and adults alike discover the magic and fun of coding.
Easy to Medium to Learn
Dragonwood
Players: 2 - 4
Learn to Play:
5 - 10 min.
Game Time:
20 - 30 min.
Dare to enter Dragonwood! Deep in the heart of this mythical forest lurk angry ogres, giggling goblins, and even the famed and fearsome fire-breathers themselves! Collect sets of adventurer cards to earn dice, which you will use to roll against your foes. Stomp on some fire ants, shriek at a grumpy troll, or strike the menacing orange dragon with a magical silver sword. Choose your strategy carefully because the landscape of Dragonwood is ever-changing. Only the bravest will overcome the odds to emerge victorious!
Easy to Medium to Learn
Kahuna
Players: 2
Learn to Play:
10 - 15 min.
Game Time:
25 - 35 min.
The game board depicts 12 islands of the South Seas, interconnected by dotted lines on which players build bridges with the goal of taking control of as many islands as possible. To stake your claim, you must place bridges on the majority of an island's connecting lines, which in turn allows you to remove any bridges your opponent may have placed to or from that island.
Medium Difficulty to Learn
Robot Turtles
Players: 2 - 4
Learn to Play:
10 - 15 min.
Game Time:
10 - 15 min.
(per level)
Robot Turtles is a board game for kids inspired by the Logo programming language. It provides crucial brain development and computer programming skills to children in the context of family fun. Players dictate the movements of their Robot Turtle tokens on a game board by playing Code Cards: Forward, Left and Right. When a player's Robot Turtle reaches a jewel they win!
Robot Turtles Adventure Quests add an additional level of coding fun to the Robot Turtles board game. The pack includes ten fun Adventure Quests with tips on how you can rearrange the game board yourself to create your own unique adventures.
Easy to Learn
Design Your Own Marble Maze
Player: 1 (to design)
2 - 4 (to play)
Learn to Play:
10 - 15 min.
Game Time:
As much or as little as you'd like
Start your adventure by designing your own marble Maze! Place walls onto the grid, create traps, choose start and end points, then drop the marble into your Maze to play. Challenge your friends and family to race to the finish! With movable walls, there are endless ways to redesign and play your Maze! Download the free Maze app to scan your maze and play in virtual reality. Transform your maze into a spaceship, a kingdom, or an ancient ruin. Customize by adding photos, sounds, riddles, and more. Sync over Bluetooth to play with friends in family in virtual reality. (App available on iOS, Android coming soon.)
Easy to Medium to Learn.
Has a board game and digital app components.
Bloxels
Player: 1 (to design)
1 (to play)
Learn to Play:
10 - 15 min.
Game Time:
As much or as little as you'd like
Bloxels is an innovative video game development platform that allows you to create your own video games. With easy-to-use physical and digital tools, the imaginative gaming worlds of young gamer's come to life in a cool retro arcade style. You decide what the game looks like and configure how it is played. You tell the story of the characters and design their looks. You create the obstacles and the power-ups. And then not only can you play, but you can share your game with fellow gamer's for both game play and content remixing.
Easy to Medium to Learn.
Has a board game and digital app components.