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Puzzle Panic Reflect - A whopping word whizz? Mirror Maze Marvelous at math? Love your Can you focus your brain on quickly sending the right letters? Ridiculously good at messages to your hands, or will you need more time riddles? Then it’s your chance to for reflection as you race to complete the challenges? The perfect marriage between games and puzzles, shine as you battle it out to find the this collection is all about exercising your brain in speediest puzzler! Each player has a notepad of mazes and challenges. fun, interactive, and engaging ways. Testing your The mirror is placed between the two players, and performance under pressure, lateral thinking, mental The rules are simple. Everyone their hands are hidden from sight by the hand guards. math, logic, speed of reaction and more – all these races to solve each puzzle and the Racing each other, and using only the view they can games are guaranteed to really get your brain in gear! first player to crack it and ding the see in the mirror, each player has to draw the correct bell wins the round! route through the maze or complete the challenge. Sounds simple … but remember, when following a Will you be super quick or will you mirror image, nothing is as it seems! Hours of fun for panic under the pressure? the whole family.
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Shape Shift Puzzle a Day
The competitive shape-building Daily challenge cards filled with game that tests your reflexes and brainteasers, puzzles, and riddles mental agility with some fast- guaranteed to get your brain in paced fun! gear quicker than your morning cup of coffee! Brain Paint Each card shows a shape challenge, ranging from a four- Brighten up your day with this colorful block puzzle up to the trickier eight- collection of fun and games! block and mystery challenges. Players race to see who will be first Each can contains three different fast to build the shape shown on the and lively game options, ensuring these card using their wooden blocks. technicolor tests of mental agility are guaranteed fun for the whole family. Get ready for some fast and furious brain training!
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ESCAPE ROOM GAMES
Gather your friends for a game night like no other with this collection of immersive escape room games! Choose one of our quick-fire, quick-thinking 30-minute games based on classic movie genres. Or try a 90-minute experience escaping from criminals on a 1920s sleeper train, or dark goings- on at the Grand Hotel. Whichever you choose, the ultimate aim is the same – players work together to solve the puzzles, uncover the mystery, and escape before time runs out. Get ready for an evening of fun and intrigue!
Escape from Escape from the Escape from the Mall Casino of Chaos Dead Town
Getting locked in the mall may sound like every It’s time to synchronize your watches because The Outbreak is quickly spreading, one bite at a teenager’s dream, but with the lights out and no you’re planning the ultimate casino heist! time, and your group of survivors need to make one else around, things can turn a little creepy! Will you be able to complete all the puzzles it to the evacuation pick-up point before you’re With four different challenges to complete, will and sneak out of the casino with your haul all turned into drooling, mindless zombies! you be able to make it out without any food still in hand? Will you manage to escape before the town court freak-outs or dressing room disasters? becomes completely overrun by the undead?
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Escape from the Escape from the Starline Express Grand Hotel
Young crime reporter Betty Willson has been It’s the big re-opening of the Grand Hotel but nothing is given the task of investigating the shocking theft quite what it seems. With trouble lurking around every of the Black Widow diamond. With the notorious corner, it’s up to you and your friends to go from room Rag-Tag Crew as the only suspects, she tracks to room solving the puzzles and uncovering the secrets them down to a sleeper train on its way to of the mysterious owners. Will you manage to escape Paris. Can you solve the puzzles in each train before time runs out or will you be checking in for the compartment and find out what other mysteries long term? await her on this long, lonely stretch of track?
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Bought Red Handed Trash Talk
Forget window shopping, it’s time to Leave your moral compass at the door splash the cash and hit “checkout” in and find out what your friends think of you this hilarious mash-up of shopping and with this outrageous game that’ll get you storytelling! naming and shaming!
Players battle it out to put together the Players take turns to read out a card with a funniest combination of items –anything “Most likely to” or “Least likely to” scenario, from duct tape to 1,500 live maggots then vote on which player they think best "We don't stop playing because or glow-in-the-dark underwear – for fits that description. Who will prove to be we get old; we get old because the purchasing scenario listed on the the trashiest of you all? situation cards. Once they’ve selected we stop playing." their items, they must be ready to weave Perfect for hours of fun with good friends! George Bernard Shaw a funny story to explain their choices and win the round! LG5273 LG5274 PACK : 6 PACK : 6 PRICE : $10.00 PRICE : $7.50 MSRP : $19.99 AGES 16+ MSRP : $14.99 AGES 16+ AVAILABLE FROM MARCH 3+ PLAYERS AVAILABLE FROM MARCH 3- 6 PLAYERS
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Prepare for an awesome facial hair The hysterical party game of Are you a slave to your phone face-off with this crazy trivia game! miscommunication! screen? Then grab your friends for a hilarious game of #socialbingo! Pop on a pair of ‘stache specs Can you successfully pass the and answer trivia questions to win message from the first to the last The aim is to cover your icons as extra pieces as you race against person in the chain using only lip in ordinary bingo. But to do it you each other to grow the longest reading and drawing? have to provide phone evidence moustache. With 300 questions for that you’ve done the thing on the adults and 300 for children, this is card – anything from “Your last text the ultimate in family entertainment! contained an emoji” to “You have over fifty matches on a dating app”!
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Sketch Off Drop the Beat TYLE
It’s a race against time in this quick- Make your secret dreams of hip- Go head to head in this colorful thinking, quick-drawing guessing hop superstardom a reality with strategy game. game! this original rap party game! Players battle it out to move from Players pick three topic cards – a Players pick a topic card to rap one corner of the grid to the other “who”, a “what”, and a “where” – about – anything from bodybuilders by rotating, flipping and sliding then race to draw the hilarious scenes to birthdays – then have 30 Tyles to link up a path. They must for their teammates to guess. Can you seconds to let the beat flow! But create their own route to victory, sketch a bodybuilder frying an egg in be careful, the other players can while also trying to block their the desert? Or a mermaid eating cake buzz you out for pausing too long, opponents’ paths! at the zoo? getting tongue-tied, or messing up your rhymes.
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Laugh Out Loud
Are you the master of the poker face or an uncontrollable giggler?
Take turns doing impressions, telling jokes, or performing dares … just be sure not to laugh! Who will get buzzed out for cracking up first?
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The Big Buzz Off
Which team will prove to have the biggest brains and the fastest fingers?
This game has 480 challenging trivia questions on the arts, general knowledge, history, food, celebrities, and TV & film. The team that hits the buzzer first and gives the right answers will claim victory!
BUZZER BATTLE
We’re really buzzing about the two new additions to our brilliant quick-fire games! From word games to tricky tests of trivia and laugh-out-loud party games, you’ll need your fingers at the ready as you go head to head against friends and family. Get prepared for some epic battles where the main focus is always to hit that buzzer first!
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GAMES ACADEMY
Focusing on lively entertainment and friendly rivalry, this trio of great games is aimed at bringing friends and families together to enjoy lots of fun and laughter! They’re so quick and easy to learn, you’ll be ready to play within minutes of opening the boxes.
2019 BEST Scavenger Hunt SELLER It’s a race against time to see who can find their objects in this fast and furious scavenger hunt!
Players spin the spinner, then draw a card to see what household item they must find in this hilarious family game.
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Word Whizz Quizoo Roulette
This lively game is all about using This game of musical mayhem sees MINI the nine letters on the wheel to players spinning the spinner to make as many words as possible decide their category, then humming in the time allowed. the song on the kazoo for their GAMES CLUB teammates to try to name it! With Designed with our best-selling matchbox puzzles in mind, these pocket-sized games Great as a single-player game, 240 well-known hits, this musical are sure to be a big hit this season! These fifteen different pick-up-and-play games or for racing against friends and guessing game is guaranteed to get include plenty of well-known classics such as fact or fiction, charades, and guessing family to discover who is the stuck in your head! the next song line, mixed up with some great new ideas. All are immediate-play ultimate word whizz! items with little or no instruction needed.
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TRIVIA
Are you the font of all knowledge, useless or otherwise? It’s time to find out with this collection of testing trivia! Whether you’re a specialist or an all-rounder, there’s a set of questions for you, so grab some friends, then step up to prove how well you know your chosen subject (or not!).
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This stunning wooden box contains 1,000 questions split into classic categories including history, sports, geography, science & nature, food & drink, TV & movies, the arts & literature, and general knowledge, as well as everyone’s favorite picture rounds!
Pick your teams and get ready to find out who’s the smartest of you all!
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Music Trivia Sports Trivia The Big Movie Quiz Video Game Trivia
From Adele to ZZ Top, and This awesome collection of 300 Including 300 questions on Put down that controller and prove everyone in between, this music trivia questions is guaranteed to Oscar winners, action movies, you’re no newbie with this brilliant trivia set contains 300 questions have avid sports fans wanting to and comedy classics, it’s time to trivia pack on all things gaming. about timeless tunes, music compete to be first past the post! put your big screen knowledge to legends, and chart-toppers from the test with this ultimate movie Bursting with 300 questions, find the past to the present day. Appoint a question master to run trivia pack. out who the true Player One is – no proceedings (and keep any unruly cheat codes allowed! Don’t be a one-hit wonder – hit the players in check), decide who you high notes of success instead with want in your corner, pick your this ultimate music battle! captains, and you’re ready to battle it out for the title.
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MINI TRIVIA
Covering a great range of topics, from food & drink to pets to amazing facts, these fantastic little trivia sets suit a wide range of age groups. Brilliant quick-fire entertainment for any occasion. QZ5823 QZ5830 QZ5825 QZ5826 QZ5827 QZ5828 QZ5829 QZ5831 AVAILABLE FROM JUNE PACK : 12 PACK : 12 PACK : 12 PACK : 12 PACK : 12 PACK : 12 PACK : 12 PACK : 12 PRICE : $2.00 PRICE : $2.00 PRICE : $2.00 PRICE : $2.00 PRICE : $2.00 PRICE : $2.00 PRICE : $2.00 PRICE : $2.00 MSRP : $3.99 MSRP : $3.99 MSRP : $3.99 MSRP : $3.99 MSRP : $3.99 MSRP : $3.99 MSRP : $3.99 MSRP : $3.99
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At a loose end? In need of distraction? These boredom busting boxes are bursting with enough fun and games to keep you entertained for days! Jam-packed with games, puzzles and traditional favorites, just decide if you want to play indoors or outdoors! Indoor Boredom Outdoor Boredom Busting Box Busting Box BRD4353 BRD5196 PACK : 3 PACK : 3 PRICE : $17.50 PRICE : $17.50 MSRP : $34.99 MSRP : $34.99 AVAILABLE FROM FEBRUARY
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WOODEN GAMES WORKSHOP
Beautifully crafted from wood and laced with a healthy dose of nostalgia, these old favorites appeal to families, collectors, and lovers of traditional games. With three additions this season, the decision about which one to play first just got that little bit harder!
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Chess, Checkers & Shut the Box Sea Battle Backgammon Luck meets strategy in this timeless test of tactics! It’s a race to sink your opponent’s battleships in this Whether you’re trying to outsmart your opponent in a Perfect for individual play or as a two-player sea-faring, two-player game of stealth and strategy! stimulating game of chess or backgammon, or hoping competition, see which tiles you can shut based Try to outsmart your opponent as you take turns to to king your pieces in a lively game of checkers, enjoy on the numbers you roll on the dice. Will the dice call out coordinates and deduce the position of each hours of strategic play with the three classic games in decide your fate, or will you find a winning strategy other’s fleet. Will you be able to track down their this handcrafted wooden set. and “shut the box” to claim that sought-after score battleships or will they sink all yours first? of zero?
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Truffle Shuffle
Who will be crowned the Ultimate Sweet Tooth in this fast-thinking, fast-moving chocolate challenge?
Roll all three dice and race to be the player to spot the sugary treat that matches the combination of colors, and then grab it first! There’ll only ever be one exact match, so you’ll have to be super speedy Foodie to snatch up that sweet and claim victory!
Games FD5357 PACK : 6 PRICE : $7.50 MSRP : $14.99 We’ve been cooking up a tasty new range of fun and games! Stuffed AVAILABLE FROM JUNE full of crowd pleasers, these food-themed games are the perfect accompaniment to any get-together. Feast your eyes on this original selection – which one will you order first?
Tin Games Display Burger Balance Three fun pick-up games for great family entertainment!
Can you keep a steady hand in this mouth- watering game of balance?
Fisherman’s Find: it’s time to Players take turns to roll the dice and see cast your net in this nautical what burger ingredients they can balance on memory card game! top of the ketchup bottle. Beware though, as the pile gets bigger … and bigger … and bigger, one wrong move can turn your bacon double cheeseburger with extra pickles into a plain old burger bun! Musical Munchies: put your acting skills to the test with these foodie- themed charades!
Crack Me Up: get ready to crack a smile with this collection of laugh-out-loud jokes and one-liners!
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Wonderland Games
Tumble down the rabbit hole and enter a world where anything is possible, and nothing is as it seems! Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s world of literary nonsense, where croquet games are played with flamingos, tea parties are never-ending, and a raven is very much like a writing desk, Wonderland Games has everything you need to bring this topsy-turvy, wacky-wonderful storybook to life. Centered on Carroll’s spirit of playful mischief, this collection will capture the imaginations of young and young-at-heart alike.
The White Rabbit’s Scavenger Hunt The Queen’s Guards Giant Playing Cards
Team up, then race to solve the riddles and find the hidden metal keys in this In the mischievous muddle of Wonderland, where cards can be clumsy gardeners topsy-turvy scavenger hunt! From spoons, socks, and soap to teacups, taps, and or royal soldiers, why can’t they also be larger than life? Prepare for supersized tea towels, each of the thirty cryptic rhyming clues leads you to an item in the games of snap and gigantic games of go fish with this giant set of playing cards, home where the next key is hidden. Who will find all their keys first? which includes instructions for enjoying sixteen classic games.
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Alice’s Party Games Mat Down the Rabbit Hole Queen of Hearts Flamingo Croquet This beautifully illustrated reversible games mat is made from high-quality Send the beanbags tumbling down the rabbit hole in this target game with a splashproof fabric. One side features five classic board games, each with a storybook twist! With colorful illustrations taken from the original book, the Pick up a mallet and try not to lose your head with this utterly whimsical Queen of whimsical Wonderland twist. Challenge family and friends to chess, pachisi, foldable wooden board is easy to set up so you can be ready to throw your Hearts Croquet Set! Complete with flamingo mallets, wooden croquet balls, and checkers, and tic tac toe or have fun with a topsy-turvy game of caterpillars beanbags quicker than you can say “How curious!” Whose score will have them hoops adorned with playing cards, this colorful set has easy-to-follow instructions and mushrooms. Then flip the mat over to feast your eyes on a collage of your grinning wider than the Cheshire Cat? and some extra gameplay to give it a silly, strange, and slightly ridiculous twist. favorite Wonderland characters and see who will be fastest to spot each one! Just the thing to help transform any event into your own personal Wonderland!
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Giant Toppling Ladder Toss Tower
Go head to head with this quick Stack the blocks and try not to and easy-to-assemble game as make them fall in this colorful you throw the brightly colored game of crashes! bolas so that they wrap around the steps of the ladder – the higher Play against friends and family as the step, the more points up for you take turns to remove a block grabs! The first player to score 21 from the tower and place it on the Totally points wins, so gather your friends top – it can reach over double its and family and head on out for an original height! Watch out though, afternoon of competitive fun! one false move will bring the Tropical whole tower toppling down!
Add a tropical twist to your outdoor entertainment this summer with our new Totally Tropical collection. Big, bold, and brightly colored, these games are perfect for parties and guaranteed to be great fun with friends! TOT5298 TOT5295 PACK : 4 PACK : 3 PRICE : $20.00 PRICE : $25.00 MSRP : $39.99 MSRP : $49.99 AVAILABLE FROM FEBRUARY AVAILABLE FROM FEBRUARY
Fifty to Finnish Bat & Ball Pineapple Smash Flamingo Ringo Make any afternoon in the sun Get ready for some fun with this All you need for some classic fun Give any afternoon in the sun a an instant party with this funky unique throwing game! in the sun! tropical twist with this smashing flamingo ring toss game! Simply game of aim! stake the metal frames into the Originating from Finland, this Get ready for hours of action ground and pick up points each great game will put your accuracy with this wooden bat and ball The perfect team game for the time you manage to get a ring over to the test as you throw the wooden set. With a colorful tropical print park or the beach, go head to a flamingo’s neck. Great family pin at the ten colorful pins and and easy-to-grip foam handles, head and use the flying disc to fun, and easy to set up. see who can tactically knock down this set is perfect for some easy try to knock the other team’s specific pins to reach exactly fifty entertainment, anywhere from the pineapple off its post. points first. Three games included. beach to your own back yard.
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Giant Snakes & Mini Golf Ladders Battle it out to see who will be first to With its supersized snakes and complete each hole with this colorful ludicrously long ladders, this giant mini golf set. game is a brilliant excuse to play outdoors! Make the game as easy or challenging as you like with the The chunky counters and dice are The Backyard obstacles provided, then grab a club perfect for younger players. Who’ll and get ready to swing! be first to reach the top? Games Club
What better way to announce the arrival of summer than gathering together family or friends and playing with this awesome collection of outdoor games?
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Mini Table Tennis Lawn Bowling Giant Tumble Tower Giant Checkers Transform any table ready for your Take aim and let the good times roll How high can you build the tower Usually considered to be a quiet own table tennis tournament with with this fun wooden bowling set! before one of you sends it toppling game of skill and concentration, this mini set. to the ground? this giant set takes checkers to a Perfect for hours of active outdoor whole new level! Guaranteed for hours of fun, this set play – enjoy challenging friends and Take turns to remove a block and is quick to assemble, so you can be family to get the first strike in this place it on the top – it can reach over With supersized pieces, it’s an ideal ready to rally in minutes. lively game of aim. double its original height! game for the back yard or park.
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Festive Fun & Games See who shines brighter than the star on top of the tree with this pack of seasonal silliness! Fantastic fun for the whole family, take turns acting out festive charades, answering questions on everything from Santa’s reindeer to festive traditions, and putting your knowledge of the best-loved festive songs to the test. Just the thing to get into the spirit of the season, with a touch of friendly competition!
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Santa Puzzleman Elf Puzzleman
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Festive Calendar Festive Bingo
Keep your brains busy during the countdown to the big day with this collection of fun and festive challenges!
From tricky puzzles and teasers to word games and riddles, this seasonal set is a must-have for FESTIVE puzzlers of all ages. Simply open the little drawers to see what awaits you each day! Whether you like tricky puzzles or seasonal twists on classic party games, our collection of festive fun has something for everyone. Perfect for Christmas party entertainment, family games or as great gifts, they’re just the thing to get you into the Christmas spirit!
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Puzzles
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2019 BEST Sherlock SELLER Holmes
The Case of the Smoking Pipe The Case of the Priceless Coin Ranging from the elementary to the decidedly devious, these stunning puzzles are designed not just to exercise your powers of deduction, but also as stylish Can you solve the case by removing the tobacco Navigate the coin through the rooms, hallways, and display pieces and collector’s items. The great detective’s puzzles proved hugely from the pipe without moving the pipe or touching hidden passages of 221B Baker Street to deliver it popular in their first season, so we’re introducing two testing new challenges to the ash? Once you’ve cracked it, enjoy solving the 50 safely out through the rear window. There are three the collection for 2020. matchstick challenges inside. difficulty levels – will you need help to find the right path or will you solve it on the hardest level?
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The Case of the Secret Society The Case of the Code Breaker
The Society of Shadows is a clandestine brotherhood seeking to exploit their ancestor’s Moriarty has challenged Holmes to the ultimate one-on-one battle of wits, and The Case of the Treasury Safe The Challenge Trilogy connections and establish themselves as London’s criminal overlords. To infiltrate the it will need all of Holmes’ infamous code-breaking skills for him to become the Will you be able to uncover the mysteries of the safe, Exercise your powers of deduction and reasoning society and gain evidence to put them behind bars, Holmes must retrieve a special victor. Holmes must deduce the correct order of four colored pins hidden in the and open it to deposit the precious coin and keep it with this compendium of three different games. membership token hidden inside an intricate sliding map block puzzle. Can you hooded section of a wooden box. But he has a mere twelve guesses to get it right. safe from Moriarty’s clutches? Featuring over 150 different puzzles, riddles and move the token into the correct position to release it? Can you help him solve the case? enigmas. SH5281 SH5359 PACK : 6 PACK : 6 SH4351 SH0417US PRICE : $7.50 PRICE : $10.00 PACK : 6 PACK : 6 MSRP : $14.99 MSRP : $19.99 PRICE : $7.50 PRICE : $6.50 AVAILABLE FROM MAY AVAILABLE FROM MAY MSRP : $14.99 MSRP : $12.99
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Lifestyle Shot
Escape from the Tower of London
Moriarty plans to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London and Sherlock Holmes needs your help to stop him! Using the wooden blocks and the forty different floor plan challenge cards, your task is to use your problem-solving skills to build a continuous safe path to the exit, avoiding fire, henchmen, and guard dogs and collecting all the crown jewels along the way!
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The Baker Street
Detective Club Mystery Box Sherlock Puzzleman
Some cases are trickier than others to crack, as this See if your problem-solving skills are up to scratch puzzle proves! While it may look like an ordinary with this unique wooden puzzle, complete with Attention all wannabe detectives! Grab your magnifying glass and dust off your thinking cap because Sherlock wooden box, it can only be opened one way. Will the great detective’s deerstalker hat. Can you turn Holmes needs your help. Looking for a fresh young mind to help him in his peculiar cases, Holmes has decided to you be able to solve this cunningly clever puzzle and Sherlock Holmes into a cube by folding and twisting search for a new apprentice. This hand-picked collection of tricky puzzles is aimed at getting children thinking and find Holmes’ secret note inside? the pieces? cracking cases to work out who could be the next “world’s smartest detective”! BSDC5287 BSDC5286 PACK : 6 PACK : 6 PRICE : $6.50 PRICE : $5.00 MSRP : $12.99 MSRP : $9.99 AVAILABLE FROM JULY AVAILABLE FROM MAY
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Contents Contents Great Minds
... inspire great things! 2019 We’ve given our best-selling collection a fresh makeover and added some new historic thinkers to the melting pot. BEST SELLER Washington, Freud, and Shakespeare have joined our original best-selling greats, with challenging new puzzles involving strategic thinking and sonnet solving! Celebrating the brightest and best minds from history, this collection of wooden and Aristotle’s Number Puzzle Churchill’s Whisky Cigar Puzzle Houdini’s Lock Puzzle metal puzzles makes for a real test of brainpower. Designed to appeal to the mathematicians among Combining two of Churchill’s greatest vices – whisky Inspired by one of the world’s most legendary you, can you make every row of this tactile wooden and cigars – the aim of this puzzle is simple. Remove escapologists, will you be able to find the trick that puzzle total 38? the bullet from the bottle without breaking it! cracks the puzzle and opens the lock? GM5816 GM5819 GM5820 PACK : 6 PACK : 6 PACK : 6 PRICE : $6.50 PRICE : $7.50 PRICE : $8.50 MSRP : $12.99 MSRP : $14.99 MSRP : $16.99 AVAILABLE FROM MAY AVAILABLE FROM JUNE AVAILABLE FROM MAY
2019 BEST Shakespeare’s Sonnet Puzzle The Freudian Slip Puzzle Washington’s Coin Challenges SELLER It’s time to channel a little of Shakespeare’s poetic Can you discover how to open this clever little General Washington helped win the American license! Each of these wooden blocks has lines wooden trick box to release the pencil and the quote Revolutionary War with his victorious crossing of Set of Five Mixed Display from four of the great writer’s famous sonnets. hidden inside? Warning: writing with this pencil may the Delaware River. Find out how you would have Do you have what it takes to go up against Edison, Franklin and Kepler? Inspired Filled with six different puzzles (four of each one), this display combines some of Can you arrange them in the correct order and cause the odd Freudian slip! fared back in 1776 by seeing if you can find the right by some of the most revolutionary names in science and engineering, this set of the best wooden and metal brainteasers from our Great Minds collection. then recite them? strategy for solving these 40 riddles! five puzzles is guaranteed to get your brain cells firing. GM5270 GM5266 GM5269 GM5817 GM5818 PACK : 6 PACK : 6 PACK : 6 PACK : 6 PACK : 1 PRICE : $6.50 PRICE : $6.50 PRICE : $10.00 PRICE : $7.50 PRICE : $84.00 MSRP : $12.99 MSRP : $12.99 MSRP : $19.99 MSRP : $14.99 MSRP : $6.99 EACH (24 IN DISPLAY) AVAILABLE FROM JUNE AVAILABLE FROM JUNE AVAILABLE FROM JUNE AVAILABLE FROM MAY AVAILABLE FROM MAY
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Letter Block Puzzle Fish Puzzle Six Square Challenges
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2 E=mc2 Metal Puzzle In 1905, Einstein‘s extraordinary thinking and unique perspective changed the way we view space, time, and energy. Most people would know his name, recognize his = EIN0140US image and associate him with superior intelligence. So, what better muse to inspire PACK : 6 PRICE : $5.00 a collection of puzzles ... and what better way to test our own brainpower than to try MSRP : $9.99 to solve them?
Mixed Wood & Metal Display
The Fiddle, Equation, Infinity and Magic Squares puzzles form a stunning display 2 inspired by Einstein’s fiddle , Lina, his influential E=mc equation, and his 2019 2019 mathematical brilliance. Can you master this collection of wooden and metal BEST BEST SELLER SELLER puzzles, each one as enigmatic and complex as the great man himself? Atom Puzzle House Riddle Lock Puzzle EIN5227 PACK : 1 EIN0318US EIN0138US EIN2908 PRICE : $40.00 PACK : 6 PACK : 6 PACK : 6 MSRP : $4.99 PER BOX (16 IN DISPLAY) PRICE : $7.50 PRICE : $12.50 PRICE : $6.50 AVAILABLE FROM JULY MSRP : $14.99 MSRP : $24.99 MSRP : $12.99
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ACTUAL PIECE Jigsaw SIZE Library
Bring the pages of your favorite storybooks to life with these stunning 250-piece jigsaw puzzles. Featuring a mix of classic literary titles, from The Jungle Book to Romeo and Juliet, each puzzle is double-sided. One side shows a passage from the book and the other a beautiful design mirroring the original illustrations. Perfect for book lovers of all ages, you’ll be able to Textured Frankenstein finish The Wonderful Wizard of Oz build your own unique library, one puzzle piece at a JL5211 JL5213 time. Adults Triple Pack PACK : 6 PACK : 6 PRICE : $5.00 PRICE : $5.00 MSRP : $9.99 MSRP : $9.99 A Christmas Carol AVAILABLE FROM JULY AVAILABLE FROM JULY JL5215 PACK : 6 PRICE : $5.00 MSRP : $9.99 Alice in Wonderland The Jungle Book JL5209 JL5821 PACK : 6 PACK : 6 PRICE : $5.00 PRICE : $5.00 MSRP : $9.99 MSRP : $9.99 Romeo and Juliet Pride and Prejudice JL5214 JL5210 PACK : 6 PACK : 6 PRICE : $5.00 PRICE : $5.00 MSRP : $9.99 MSRP : $9.99 AVAILABLE FROM AUGUST
DOUBLE- SIDED JIGSAW Letterjig The perfect pick-up-and-play items, these 50-piece alphabet jigsaws are bright and colorful, providing quick entertainment with a personalized touch. Kids Triple Pack 26 different puzzles Titles Include: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 75 in every display Alice in Wonderland Higher ratios of popular letters The Jungle Book LJ5277 JL5216 PACK : 1 PACK : 6 PRICE : $112.50 PRICE : $12.50 MSRP : $2.99 EACH MSRP : $24.99 AVAILABLE FROM JUNE AVAILABLE FROM AUGUST
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2019 BEST SELLER STEM
Designed to build a love for exploring, discovering, learning, and creating, our STEM puzzles are a fun way to help develop young minds into the thinkers, innovators, and inventors of tomorrow.
STEM is all around ... but what is it? It’s science, technology, engineering and math - subjects that play a part in every day of our lives.
STEM Puzzle Set
A fun set of wooden puzzles designed to challenge kids’ thinking across all four STEM subject areas.
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Periodic Table Jigsaw Binary Puzzle Tangrams Pentomino
Mastering the elements in the periodic table has 52 clever challenges to put your brain through Use the seven wooden pieces to form the shape of Look at these 40 challenges from the right angle and never been so much fun! its paces! each silhouette. Which of the 40 puzzles will you try see how you “shape up”! first? The rabbit? The windmill? The running man?
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Puzzle & Perplex
Totally absorbing and hugely tactile, these tricky metal puzzles make great treats for you or gifts for like-minded puzzlers! The eye-catching foiled packaging and sleek metal puzzles ensure Puzzle & Perplex is a stand-out collection on any shelf.
Metal Puzzle Display Ultimate Metal Puzzle Collection Mixed Carton With 27 mini metal puzzles in one great display, This set of ten solid steel puzzles is guaranteed to These six perplexing metal brainteasers each provide these beautifully packaged brainteasers are perfect get you flexing your cognitive muscles. Compete with a great challenge to puzzle over. The aim for each as quick “pick-ups”. friends and family as you test your brainpower, trying one is to work out how to separate the two pieces. to separate and reattach the parts of each puzzle. Available in a mixed carton.
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Matchbox Puzzles
Get those synapses firing with this scorching collection of sparky little puzzles and challenges! There’s everything from pick-up puzzles to a set of matchstick and lateral thinking challenges, or the Puzzling Obscurities set – a fiery box of ten brainteasers. Whichever mix you choose, it’s time to prove how much of a bright spark you really are!
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Matchbox Display Magnificent Matchstick Challenges Puzzling Obscurities Containing fifteen different mini metal and wooden See if you’ve met your match with this fiery puzzle Put your problem-solving skills to the test with these puzzles, this display has a tricky little brainteaser to collection filled with 50 number, word, and letter ten pocket-sized puzzles. From Rings of Fire to the suit everyone! puzzles, as well as 50 matchstick challenges. Cross, each matchbox has a different brainteaser to solve. Once you’ve mastered them, continue to baffle your brain with the 50 matchstick challenges. MB1259 MB4352 MB3216 PACK : 1 PACK : 6 PACK : 6 PRICE : $112.50 PRICE : $6.50 PRICE : $12.50 MSRP : $2.99 EACH (75 IN DISPLAY) MSRP : $12.99 MSRP : $24.99
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Puzzleman Since joining the team in 2002, Puzzleman has proven to be the king of reinvention, changing his appearance at the drop of his (bowler) hat. Currently he’s channeling an intergalactic look and masquerading as a couple of stylish English gents.
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