ThinkFun Hoppers

• Four levels of play
• Forty challenge cards with solutions
• Self-contained game board with storage drawer
• Teaches critical thinking, problem solving, strategy development
• For ages 8 years and above

Overview

ThinkFun Hoppers Leap into a game full of fun with this hoppin’ peg solitaire challenge. Set your frogs on the lily pad game grid to match one of 40 challenge cards, then hop one over the other until only the red frog is left. Solutions are included. Game measures 5.25″W x 8″H x 2.5″D.

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ThinkFun Hoppers Bringing a new look to the classic peg solitaire game, here comes Hoppers. Since peg solitaire is a jumping game, what could be more natural than designing the pegs to resemble frogs? Players choose their preferred level of difficulty (from beginner to expert) and select one of the 40 cards included with the game. Following the diagram on the card, 4 to 12 frogs are placed on the game board lily pads. Then it’s time to get hopping. Frogs leap over each other until there’s only one left on the board. The beginner setups will be easy enough for most players to master quickly. The expert setups will take a lot of cogitation and some false starts before they’re solved. If players have jumped and jumped and are still stumped, each card has the solution on the back. When play is done, frogs and playing cards can be tucked away in the nifty storage compartment beneath the game board. –Wendy Slotboom

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ThinkFun Zingo 1-2-3

• 2 levels of play
• 6 double-sided zingo, cards and 72 double-sided tiles
• Zingo, zinger
• Easy cleanup
• Learning skills: Counting, simple addition, number sense and word recognition

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ThinkFun Zingo 1-2-3 What better way to build a child’s reading and counting skills than with Zingo! 1-2-3! With Zingo! 1-2-3, players must match their numbered tiles to their corresponding challenge card. The first player with a full card wins the game by yelling Zingo! Two levels of play focus on counting and addition. This fast-paced game will have the whole family yelling 1-2-3 PLAY!For 2 – 6 players.Contents include: 6 Double-Sided Zingo! Cards, 72 Double-Sided Tiles, 1 Zingo! Zinger and instructions.

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ThinkFun Fifteen Puzzle

• Bridges generations
• Leatherette travel case
• Thirty-one challenges
• Instruction booklet with solutions
• For ages 8 years and above

Overview

ThinkFun Fifteen Puzzle The Fifteen Puzzle is a classic numerical nightmare, originally introduced in 1880. Binary Arts has recreated it in smooth, polished metal and decorative enamel, just as it appeared at the height of its popularity during the 1930s. Scramble the 15 numbered tiles in the tray, then try to slide them into correct numerical order. Enclosed booklet features over 30 additional challenges; handy leatherette carry bag included.

Features Stainless steel construction for smooth operation and durability, handy travel case and over 30 challenges included in booklet. The perfect pocket-size travel game.

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ThinkFun Solitaire Chess

• A strategic twist on a timeless classic
• 20 double-sided challenge cards (40 challenges) and 10 chess pieces
• Game board
• Game-go bag
• Learning skills: Logical deduction, spatial reasoning and critical thinking

Overview

ThinkFun Solitaire Chess Solitaire Chess. It s not chess, but uses the rules of chess to help you learn the game or sharpen your skills. Solitaire Chess takes the best part of the game eliminating your opponent s pieces and makes it the goal of this fun and fast-paced logic puzzle. Your problem-solving and sequential logic skills are put to the test as you plan your strategy to eliminate all of the pieces from the game board except one, using only traditional chess moves. Includes 60 beginner- to expert-level challenges, 10 chess pieces, and a storage bag. How to play: You start with 10 chess pieces two each of the Knight, Rook, Pawn and Bishop, one each of the King and Queen and 60 challenges. Choose a challenge card and set up the chess pieces on the board as indicated. Then, using the rules of chess to plan your strategy, move the pieces one by one to capture the other pieces. When only one piece remains on the board, you win! Once you ve solved a challenge, move on to the next, more difficult one. Ages 8 to adult. Learn chess or deepen your strategic understanding of the game with Solitaire Chess from Brookstone. Order today!

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ThinkFun What’s Gnu

• Fast-action spelling
• Up to six players can play
• Thirty-six word-starter cards
• Teaches word recognition, vocabulary building, and reading
• For ages between 5 to 8 years

Overview

ThinkFun What’s Gnu What’s Gnu’ It’s a three-letter-word race game that spells F-U-N. The object of the game is to spell more three-letter words than the other players. Up to 36 Word-Starter cards, which have one letter provided and two blanks, are spread out for everyone to see. Players slide the clever Letter Getter to magically reveal two letter tiles. Kids then must look at these tiles and try to make three-letter words by filling in the blanks on the Word-Starter cards. The player with the most three-letter words when all the tiles run out wins. Building your vocabulary is three times more fun. For 2 to 6 players.

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ThinkFun Shape By Shape

• Provides players with an abstract view of the world
• Puzzle shapes have similar geometry to Tangram pieces
• Great introduction to conceptual thinking and spatial relationships
• Features sixty mind challenge cards with hints and solutions, fourteen pattern pieces, and one game tray
• For ages 8 years and above

Overview

ThinkFun Shape By Shape Shape by Shape provides players with an abstract view of the world as they match 14 red and yellow puzzle shapes to images on one of 60 provided challenge cards. A great introduction to conceptual thinking and spatial relationships.

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ThinkFun Shape By Shape Based on the ancient game of tangrams, Shape by Shape is the quietly absorbing game of fitting 14 pieces inside a puzzle frame. Not as simple as it sounds, players are challenged to match the image on each of 60 cards using six red pieces to form the card’s subject and eight yellow pieces to form its background. If needed, hints on the back of each card will aid the player. In addition to the 60 puzzles provided there are 27,268 ways to arrange the pieces inside the puzzle frame. Children who can draw up a master list will be well on their way to brilliant careers in math or engineering. This compact, nicely designed game includes a plastic drawer below the puzzle frame to hold the cards. –Wendy Slotboom

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ThinkFun Block By Block

• Sixty mind challenge cards with hints and solutions
• Five brick pieces
• Game-go storage bag
• Builds on player?s architectural skills as they combine seven puzzle pieces to construct up to sixty 3D structures
• For ages 8 years and above

Overview

ThinkFun Block By Block Grades 2 & up. There are only seven pieces in this puzzle, so it should be easy. Right? Guess again! Sixty puzzle cards show 60 three-dimensional structures for players to replicate using the seven pieces. Each of the pieces, based on three or four connected cubes, is unique. One is an L shape, another a T, and they get more complicated from there. If a player is stumped and can’t figure out how to build the Long Wall, the Snake, or the Bad Dog, there are helpful clues on the back of the cards. Players also can use the pieces to invent their own structures. Originally known as the Soma Cube, Block by Block is an excellent way to develop and refine spatial perception skills. Includes drawstring bag for storage.

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ThinkFun Block By Block There are only seven pieces in this puzzle, so it should be easy. Right? Guess again! Sixty puzzle cards show 60 three-dimensional structures for players to replicate using the seven pieces. Each of the pieces, based on three or four connected cubes, is unique. One is an L shape, another a T, and they get more complicated from there. If a player is stumped and can’t figure out how to build the Long Wall, the Snake, or the Bad Dog, there are helpful clues on the back of the cards. Players also can use the pieces to invent their own structures. Originally known as the Soma Cube, Block by Block is an excellent way to develop and refine spatial perception skills. Includes drawstring bag for storage. –Wendy Slotboom

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ThinkFun Chocolate Fix

• Features forty mind challenges with solutions
• Four levels of play; from beginner to expert
• Nine chocolate pieces, one assortment game tray and a game-go bag
• Players examine all the clues on the cards before making a move
• Confidence builds as you narrow down the possibilities to fill each candy assortment

Overview

ThinkFun Chocolate Fix Using a box of chocolate as a game board, the player has to decode the pattern on a challenge card to figure out where each type of candy should be placed. Levels range from easy beginner to challenging expert. ThinkFun. Ages: 8+

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ThinkFun Rush Hour

• Four levels of play, beginner to expert
• Forty mind challenge cards with solutions
• Sixteen cars and trucks, one red escape car
• One traffic grid game board and game-go storage bag
• For ages 8 years and above

Overview

ThinkFun Rush Hour Rush Hour is the mind-challenging game of pure bumper-to-bumper fun! Players set up the cars and trucks on a game grid to match one of forty color-coded challenge cards, and then try to maneuver the red car to escape the gridlock. Four levels of play range from beginner to expert. Measures 9″W x 8″H x 2.5″D.

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ThinkFun Rush Hour Honk! Honk! It’s gridlock and the little red car can’t move. The player is a traffic cop in the Rush Hour Traffic Jam Puzzle where the objective is to get the red car off the road. To play, pick one of 40 challenge cards; solutions are printed on the back of each card. Then set up the cars and buses in a specified pattern on the 6-inch-square road grid. Move the vehicles one by one (obey those traffic laws!) until the red car can escape the traffic jam. There are four levels of difficulty. Kids can alternate turns with another player or just “play in traffic” alone. The game from Binary Arts received a national award from Mensa and is used in elementary school math classes. The design includes clear instructions printed on the sturdy box, which can be used both as a playing tray and for storage. The game cards stow away in a drawer in the road grid. This is a 1999 Parents’ Choice recommended toy. –Marcie Bovetz

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ThinkFun Gordians Knot

• Six colorful interlocking puzzle pieces
• Forty-page step-by-step solution book
• Easy-to-follow reassembly instructions
• Teaches deductive reasoning and problem-solving
• For ages 8 years and above

Overview

ThinkFun Gordians Knot An ancient mystery is reinvented for mind-bending, modern-day fun. Gordian’s Knot Brainteaser Challenge from ThinkFun is based on the Gordian knot tied by Midas. The Great Oracles proclaimed that the person who solved the puzzle would rule the world. This colorful knot features six interlocking pieces, but it takes a whopping 69 different moves to take the knot apart. By sliding the six pieces past each other, the Gordian’s Knot will come apart. Some pieces will easily move throughout the process, but beware — that doesn’t mean you made the right move.

Game comes with a 40-page, step-by-step solution book in case you get stumped, and helps you put the knot back together once the puzzle is solved. For one player.

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ThinkFun Gordians Knot

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