Fast and frantic, players race against each other to build crossword grids. And it requires no pencil, paper, or board. In this addictive word game, speed wins, not points. You’ll have a bunch of fun as you race to the finish by using all of your letter tiles first! BANANAGRAMS comes in a small portable banana-shaped pouch and is perfect for everyone 7 & up; at home or on the go.

A sinkhole formed west of the Tigris river in the heart of Mesopotamia revealing a large stone door with curious, unknown markings. A special team of archaeologists, from all over the world, ventured to the site to solve its puzzle, allowing them inside. Therein, a massive man-made cavern, stretching for what seemed to be a mile straight down, could be seen. But just as the team decides to leave, the door slams shut, sand slowly filling up from the ground, and a revelation of new puzzles that must be solved. Will they do it in time? Players take the role of the archaeological team as they try to escape the Lost Temple. In this real-time cooperative game, players will need to communicate and collaborate to solve an unending slew of puzzles. Unlike other games in this genre, Curio: The Lost Temple is endlessly replayable, even by the same players. Using a unique module-based system, players manipulate, sort, rotate, and search puzzle components to arrive at a distinct answer.

Players take on the role of an archaeological team trying to escape a lost temple. It's a real-time cooperative game, where players need to solve a slew of puzzles to escape. Unlike similar games, Curio is endlessly replayable.

Curio builds team problem solving skills as players solve a variety of puzzles to crack codes, find mystery words, and decipher diagrams in an ancient code language. Modules involve spatial reasoning (finding an intersection of strips to locate a letter), time management (keeping track of a timer as you solve puzzles) and pattern recognition (matching and eliminating colours and shapes to identify a word).

Our favourite tactic is to come up with nicknames for some of the symbols to use over time. Whether it's using a foreign letter (one looks like the Greek letter "phi") or a unique description, coming up with a common language for symbols is a great way to save time and communicate with your team.

Adding the timer module can add a level of urgency that turns up the pressure for fun and funny time. The designer also let us in on a hint that the outside of the box has a secret code that no one's been able to solve yet - we're still puzzling over it!

FReNeTiC®, is the frenzied word game of the Elements. Players race against the clock to write down as many words as they can create from different combinations of the Element Symbols. The scoring mechanism is the Atomic Number of the Element Symbols being used , eg Ba Na Na = Banana = 78 points. Everyone is playing all the time with the first player to reach 1000 points declared the winner

Stack dice on your forehead, bounce dice into the box, knock down a meeple surrounded by dice, balance a meeple on a stick. These, and many more wacky quests await a traditional dungeon party in this truly untraditional dungeon crawler. Each quest adds 30 seconds to the game and an average game uses 6 quests making this a quick, easy, and FUN game to learn and play!

Players stack dice on their foreheads, bounce them into the box, balance a meeple on a stick, and more wacky quests instead of more traditional dungeon crawling action. You need coordination and creative thinking in order to win, and a good sense of humour! Think carefully about how to use each member of your party's powers - it can make a difference for hard tasks.

Playing this game may cause a lot of laughter (and maybe a few flying dice). One stray dice made it all the way down the stairs at our office!

If you hung around your local zoo after closing time – long after the last employee had gone home for the night – you just might see the greatest, and most secret of all zoo attractions: late-night Kung Fu fights! Welcome to Kung-Fu Zoo, a zany dice-flicking dexterity game for 2-4 players. You control a team of highly-trained animals—cheetahs, elephants, gorillas, or zebras—in a Kung Fu battle against your rivals. You win the game by knocking all of your opponent’s animals into cages or onto their backs. Who will be tonight’s champion of the zoo? Grab some dice and find out!

Flicking and rolling dice, representing animals, at your opponents. You win by knocking all of your opponent's animals into cages, or onto their backs. The game builds spatial reasoning skills as players aim their dice to knock other animals into the pen. The dice flicking also adds a fine motor skill component as players need to flick thoughtfully to aim well. It's a good idea to keep the location of your other dice in mind - it's easier than you think to knock your own animals in!

We love the creative art for the Kung Foo Zoo animals. It's popular to bring out at family gatherings for several members of the WizKids team - it's fun to hear about family members ages 8 to 88 playing the game together at Christmas!

Each round, players write words on their whiteboards using the available letter cards, but they only score points for the cards they are able to claim before their opponents. Words only score if the player follows the ever-changing and zany Letter GO! rules. The player who scores the most points at the end of five rounds wins.

Players write words on whiteboards using letters from a limited set of letter cards. They have to be fast, as they can only score points for cards they can claim before their opponents.

You need fast thinking and spelling skills to pick up on what letters to use for your word. Handwriting is the basis for creating your word, but you may find you need to complete tasks like drawing or writing in a funny way. It's great practice with words for kids who are just learning, and fun brain exercise for players of all ages.

Since the first person to use a word scores points for all letters, it's good idea to use some of the less-common letters to make your words. If you're running last, you might have time to think!

Some of the rules for each round can be zany - like singing your word or drawing hats on each letter. These are fun to try with new players.

Let the furious fun begin! Players sprint to arrange a set of 5 blocks so that they match a pattern shown on a card. First player to succeed grabs the card and a new matching race starts. Tensions rise as you scramble to outpace and outsmart your opponents in this ingenious game of perception. So fire-up your neurons and be transported by Match Madness!

The  ridiculously silly card game for awesomely fun people! Filled with zombies, possessed babies and even the Grim Reaper himself. Your aim is to win as many Quirks as possible (sets of 3 characters) by acting out the characters you wish to win! Use red Tactic cards to steal Quirks from your opponents, in a bid to prove you are the quirkiest! Defend your Quirks with orange Defence cards or use blue Skip cards to skip your opponents turn!

A crime has been committed. The police investigation is going nowhere. Your detective agency was tasked by a client to investigate… but another agency is on the case as well! In Shadows – Amsterdam, compete against a rival team in a real-time competition, using pictures to communicate within your own team. Follow the leads of your intelligence officer to move from tile to tile through the city. Find three pieces of evidence and deliver them to the client before your opponents! The police don’t want you on the case, so you’d best stay out of their way…

Untold: Adventures Await is a collaborative storytelling game where you play the heroes in your own unfolding adventure TV series full of twists and turns. Like an episode of your favourite TV show, a game of Untold plays out over five Scenes. The game begins with players create a setting for their episode. The first Scene opens with the world facing A Dangerous Dilemma. You’ll create characters in response to this threat. Then The Plot Thickens, making things trickier for your heroes. Next comes An Heroic Undertaking where there is a direct confrontation. With The Truth Revealed, the stakes become even higher for your heroes as they are catapulted towards The Final Showdown!

In When I Dream, players take turns as the Dreamer who places a mask over their eyes. The other players are Dream Spirits who each use a single word to describe the same card. But beware the Sandmen and Boogeymen who will try to lead the Dreamer astray!

Wibbell++ is a deck of cards featuring pairs of letters. In the first-edition deck, there were rules for 5 games, but more are continually being added and developed.

Wibbell is a word game with a catchup mechanism that means everyone is always competing. Race to shout words containing at least one letter from each of the 2 cards in the centre, and at least one letter from each face-up card in front of yourself! The game gets progressively harder as you do well, so adults and a 5-year old can play together and both compete.

 Grabbell involves quickly grabbing cards that match either the border design or a letter. When there are few cards left on the table, everyone slams their cards down to secure the bonus 10 points! This can be a great way to increase familiarity with lettershapes.

Faybell is a co-operative storytelling activity. Letters are a guiding restriction in the key story elements, how you start each sentence and keywords used within each sentence. 

Phrasell is a partygame, ideally played at large gatherings. Everyone uses 4 letters as the initials for a phrase that they invent. Some of the most amusing phrases have been created by the tiniest members of families (8).

Alphabetickell is an abstract game that involves putting things in alphabetical order and deciding how many letters you're willing to skip - given that you will never again be able to use those letters. There's a fair amount of probability and analysis involved to play well, but as it's a turn-based game, younger children can be offered a bit of help and it's a simple enough framework for them to start thinking about numeracy and probabilities.