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Critical Thinking

Items in this section all focus on building one's ability to analyze, organize, classify, and then generalize insformation so that meaningful conclusions can be drawn.

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Skippity - An intro to checkers!
$19.95
R5050
Great new game plays like beginning checkers but with more colors and more jumping. Start by filling the board randomly with all the colorful markers. On each turn players make as many jumps as they can, stacking their “take” by color on their home base. When no more jumps/moves can be made, the winner will be the player with the most complete sets of each color skipper. Players learn to plan moves and jumps so they get the color they need and maybe block their opponents from getting the colors they need. Great for building spatial relations, directionality, planning skills and color recognition.

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Trucky 3
$25.95
R5544
3 small trucks, and 10 brightly colored, irregularly shaped, plastic puzzle pieces. Trucks have wooden frames and carry transparent containers on their backs. Object of the game is to fill up one or more trucks with a specific set of puzzle pieces. But no part of any piece can stick out above the boarder of the containers. The transport containers make it over clear if you have been successful or not. Each challenge shows you which truck and which pieces are to be used. The beginning challenges involve only one truck but the more difficult puzzles may have 2 or 3 trucks and provide no indication of which part is meant to go in which truck. Playful and engaging way to exercise, problem solving skills, spatial organization, perseverance and hand skills, while fostering ability to analyze information and "think outside the box"!

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Smart Car
$25.95
R5548
Smart car provides a perceptual and construction challenge for players from 4-99 years. You get a wooden card chassis and 4 chunky wood pieces, all the same shape but each a different color. "Eye" placement is also different on each of the wooden blocks. All you have to do is build the car, matching the color arrangement shown on the challenge cards while also keeping the following rules in mind. The shape of the car is always the same, there should always be 2 eyes in the windshield and no where else and all the blocks must be used. 48 challenge cards in Starter, Junior, Epxert and Master levels. Younger children will have fun simply pushing the car and loading up the blocks. Great game helps you start "thinking outside the box."

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My First Sudoku
$17.95
R8081
A most awesome game for younger children or those taking their first steps down the Sudoku road! My First Sudoku is a kinder, gentler version of the original starting with the use of a 4 x 4 board and progressing to a 6 x 6 instead of using the original 9 x 9. Additionally, the puzzles consist of simple colorful pictures of common objects or colorful shapes instead of focusing on numbers. The friendlier graphics and smaller playing boards make this an amazingly effective tool for developing logic, reasoning, and problem on and concentration skills. A must have game for home, school, or clinic!

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My First Brainbox
$14.95
R2717
Boost memory and concentration skills in just 10 seconds! That's how long you get to memorize as many details about a picture as you can. Players are then asked a question from the back of the card corresponding to a roll of the die, for example; How many windows are in the room? What was on the table? Comes with 300 simple, engaging pictures and a 10 second timer. Need more time?...use the timer twice. Fast paced game of concentration, attention to detail and visual memory of ages 4 and up.

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Color Code
$21.95
R5540
Sleek, colorful design of this puzzle game is very enticing, and with 100 challenges to choose from, you could play all day! Game consists of boldly colored shapes on 18 transparent cards, a display holder and the challenge designs. Players pick a challenge and then stack tiles in the display rack to re-create the composition layer by layer. Think smart, it can become tricky! You must consider and analyze shape, color, sequence and orientation of all component pieces. Develops logical thinking skills, strategic planning and visual and spatial perception. Solutions provided. Ages 5+

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Chocolate Fix
$17.95
R5733
Players of all ages and skill levels are challenged to arrange the 9 chocolate candies into their correct positions. this is done based on the players interpretation of the spatial/positional clues provided on the 40 challenge cards. Puzzles progress from beginner to expert levels and along the way players sharpen their critcal thinking, sequencing and visual problem solving skills. Similar game play to our Clever Castle (R2678), but more advanced. a terrific way to engage your brain no matter what the age!

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Zoologic
$19.95 $14.95 On Sale!
R5789
A fun game of logic and deduction where players position dogs, cats and mice tiles along with their favorite food, according to the rules of the game. Animals can not be placed next to their traditional rivals nor beside their favorite foods. At more advanced levels, additional constraints are added to increase the challenge. Thinking logically has never been more fun!

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Foot Prints
$24.95
M5019
Follow the footprints down the path for a gross-motor, moto-planning, sequencing and processing challenge. You get 10 markers to position on the floor and 12 footprint maps to follow. Put down on the floor as many circles as shown on your map. Players stand in the start position and perform the action as demonstrated by your maps footprints, i.e.; if both footprints are pictured inside the circle...jump so both of your feet land that way. If the map shows the right foot in a circle and the left one out, then you do the same. the footprint maps become more complex as you go with crossed, sideways and alternating patterns possible. If a player has trouble interpreting how to do what the footprints show, let them follow someone else through the path. Where will the footprints lead you...?
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Monkey Memory
$9.95
R2373
A quick thinking logical memory game! The monkeys have taken a total of 10 items from the visitors at the zoo. But in each round of play all but one of the items is recovered. You need sharp eyes, fast thinking and good visual memory to be the first to determine what item is still missing. Make game easier or harder by adjusting the number of items in play and by allowing use of the object prompt cards or not. For 2-8 players, 5 to adult.

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Thinking Skills (Preschool)
$2.95
R9754
A full color workbook with 32 exercises focusing on essential preschool skills. The richly colored, child-friendly illustrations motivate children to practice organizing information, classifying, sequencing, completing picture categories and solving logic puzzles. Try placing the worksheet in a clear acetate pocket so it can be used repeatedly.

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Simon Mini
$13.95
R2511
A true classic! this colorful, fast paced electronic game of memory is back. Try to repeat the ever-increasing sequences of lights and sounds by depressing the appropriate section at the appropriate time. Challenging and addictive then... challenging and addictive now. But now, the the small size and carabiner keychain modification, you can take it everywhere attached to book bags, belt loops, etc.

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Games in a Jar
Tons of play value packed into small, easy to transport jars with lids. Each jar comes with approximately 95, 3"x3" cards printed with an almost endless supply of games to play; answers on the back. Perfect at restaurants, between lessons, doctors waiting rooms, etc. Game choices: Mazes or Thinking Things.

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Games In a Jar - Mazes $15.95 W7157 Quantity   
Games in a Jar - Think Fast $15.95 R7159 Quantity   
Games in a Jar - Think Fast $15.95 R7159 Quantity   
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Rock (Paper- Scissor) Card Game
$9.95
V6868
Sharpen your visual processing and verbal skills with Rock! Using the traditional rules of Rock, Paper, Scissor, players flip over cards and race to be the first to name the winning card. And as each card has a different representation of a rock, paper or scissor there is a lot of "brain tripping" information to process. COmes in a handy, take anywhere travel tin.

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Animal Mastermind Towers - Oppenheim Toy Award Winner !
$11.95
R2944
This fun new game of deduction is really a simpler, less intimidating version of Mastermind. Both players secretly stack their animal tiles in their towers. the object is for you to figure out what order your opponent put his animals in before he guesses yours. You do this by asking yes/no questions regarding positions, i.e. "Is the lion below the giraffe?" "Is the penguin at the top?" first player to arrive at the correct order, wins! Perfect for ages 6+ but with younger children try using less pieces. Great game for improving logic, deductive reasoning, and language skills.

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Listen, Look, and Do!
$12.95
L4035
Useful book filled with 120 activities for addressing visual and auditory discrimination and memory skills for PK-1st grade. Uses stories and rhymes, puzzles and pictures, along with cut and paste, sequencing,hidden pictures and many other types of activities to deveop direciton following. Black and white activity pages are repoducible for use with students.

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Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game
$21.95
P3532
Fun game for 2-4 young children. Players take turns using the adorable Squirrel Squeezers to pick up and place the correct color acorn into the corresponding hole in their log. First to fill their log wins. Spinner tells you which color acorn to pick but it also has spaces marked, "pick an acorn," "steal an acorn," "lose an acorn," so there is some beginning strategy lessons to be learned. Motivating way to work on improving fine motor color, hand strength, matching and sorting, and decision making skills.

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Day and Night
$24.95
R5533
A unique product for developing visual perception, design copy, shape and color recognition and fine motor skills in children as young as 3 years. The “day” picture challenges clearly show the color and shapes of the individual wood pieces needed to recreate, on the stand, the chosen picture. The “night” picture challenges only show the picture components in silhouettes with no details provided. Greater visual perception, logical reasoning and problem solving skills are required to re-create these designs. Enticing, brightly colored, all wood toy will last for years.

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