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.

Tri-Spy
$14.95
R5312

A fast paced game challenging players to think, look and react quickly as they attempt to spot matching patterns. Players, on their turn, can move only one of the 8 wooden tokens to any open space on the board. they do so, attempting to recreate a pattern displayed on one of the 12 cards spread around the board. If a pattern is matched, player takes that card and replaces it with another. Person with the most cards wins! Tri-Spy is the ultimate visual spatial challenge that promotes concentration, pattern recogniation, visualization and problem solving 1-6 players, 7+ yrs.

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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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Buzzz
$14.95
R8050
This colorful card game will have young and old straining their brains and their eyes! At first glance, every card looks the same but on closer inspection you will see the variations. Each of the 91 cards feature 1 of 3 different patterns of balloon stripes, combination of animals or different shaped baskets in 3 different colors. Players work at identifying a series of 3 cards featuring all 3 variations of one of the key atributes and then be the first to press the Buzzzzzer! If you are correct, you get the card. If you are wrong, you must give up 3 cards. Identify the most 3 card series, collect the most cards and you win! Great game helping to improve visual scanning,, discrimination and memory along with attention to detail and response speed.

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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...?

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.

Item	Price	Part No.	Add Qty. to Cart
• Games In a Jar - Mazes	$15.95	W7157	Quantity
• Games in a Jar - Think Fast	$15.95	R7159	Quantity

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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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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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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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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