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The best-studied board game, with real depth and honest limits on its school benefits.
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Turing Tumble
A marble-powered computer you build to solve sixty logic puzzles.
Prime Climb
Race two pawns to 101 using dice and all four operations on a board colored by primes.
Tiny Polka Dot
Sixteen card games from a 66-card deck that shows numbers zero to ten six ways.
Circuit Maze
Build a real working circuit on a grid until the beacons light up.
Evolution
A card game where species evolve and compete for food from a shrinking watering hole.
Laser Maze
Aim a real laser through mirrors and splitters to light up the target.
Mastermind
Crack a hidden four-peg color code from feedback pegs in ten guesses.
Wingspan
An engine-building card game with 170 real bird species and accurate habitat facts.
SET
Spot three cards alike or different across four features while everyone plays at once.
Pandemic
A cooperative race to cure four diseases before outbreaks cascade across the world map.
Rush Hour
A sliding-block puzzle: shuffle cars and trucks so the red car can escape the jam.
Chutes and Ladders
A 1-to-100 race over ladders and chutes, on the track numeracy research studies.
Dixit
Give a one-word clue for a dreamlike card that some, but not all, players will guess.
Outfoxed!
A cooperative whodunit for five-year-olds: catch the pie thief by ruling out foxes.
Blokus
Place Tetris-like pieces so they touch your color only at corners: one rule, deep play.
Guess Who?
Two players ask yes/no questions to find a mystery face: deduction from age six.
Qwirkle
Lay tiles sharing a color or shape: the 2011 Spiel des Jahres, played like dominoes.
Zingo!
A bingo-style matching game with a tile-dispensing 'Zinger' for pre-readers from four.
Hoot Owl Hoot!
A cooperative color-matching race for four-year-olds: fly every owl home before sunrise.