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We love candy. Who doesn’t? But when it comes to the holidays, it’s always more fun to get some pint-sized gifts in our stockings. That special little nugget of fun that is mixed among the candy and fruit. (Yes, we like it when Santa leaves fruit in the stocking!) But aside from that, it’s always fun to find stashes of gifts hidden among the tree branches.

A lot of times, the stocking becomes the after-thought and we just don’t think that’s right. It is just as important as what is going under the tree! For that reason, we’re featuring Stocking Stuffers as our second gift guide for the 2016 holiday season.

Our first gift guide included ideas for games for the family and we’ll have future guides as well. This list of Stocking Stuffers will offer gift ideas for various individuals on your list – with ideas for all ages. As a parent of a teen and tween, I recognize the difficulty in finding the right “small” item! Hopefully this list helps relieve that!

Over the next few weeks we will publish guides with games, toys, home items, electronics and more. If you see the  logo, click on it to be directed to an in-depth review!

3 Wishes

Passport Game Studios  

3 Wishes is a family friendly card game for 3-5 players ages 8+ based on set collection, memory, and deduction. You and your friends discover a magic lamp and a genie is ready to grant 3 wishes… but only to one of you! Compete with your friends to see who can compile the “best” wishes to win the genie’s favor, and the game.

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One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak

Bezier Games   

One Night Ultimate Werewolf Daybreak is a fast game for 3-7 players in which everyone gets a hidden role, each with a special ability. (No plain “villagers” here!) In the course of a single morning, your village will decide who among them is a werewolf…because all it takes is finding one werewolf to win!

Daybreak includes eleven new roles, and it can be played on its own or combined with the original One Night Ultimate Werewolf; when combined, you can have up to ten players in a single game.

Munchkin Christmas Lite

Steve Jackson Games  

Kick down the door! Defeat the monster! Take the treasure!

This Christmas-themed game is quick-to-learn fun for three to four players – and it’s a Munchkin game! These games have been a phenomenon for fifteen years, and now we’re giving you a great introductory title. Munchkin Christmas Lite lets you slay monsters, grab loot, and backstab your friends. Santa won’t care!
Ages 10 and up. One to two hours.

Worry Eaters

Haywire Group  

These incredibly soft plush pals are not only great to cuddle with, they also have an appetite for worries. A great way to share your troubles and get them “off your shoulders”. Simply write down what is worrying you, zip it up in your Worry Eaters mouth, and let your Worry Eater carry your troubles for you. A very helpful tool for parents to find out what their child is worrying about and to help teach them how to successfully deal with life’s worries.

These cute characters come in 16 different styles and two different sizes, priced at $22.99 and $15.99. All ages.

Sneaky Cards

Gamewright  

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: become a secret agent of joy, spreading art and intrigue to an unsuspecting public. Inside each box is an interactive scavenger hunt that will inspire creativity and reward audacity. Take a selfie with a stranger, create a collaborative doodle, become a flash mob of one. Complete each objective and then pass the card along to an unwitting accomplice, who now becomes part of the game!

The fun is ever-expanding, but it all starts with you – Play it forward!

Panic Lab

Gigamic   

The Amoebas have escaped! Panic Lab is a terrific “brain burning” challenge you will love. Dice are rolled to tell you which amoeba you are looking for and which lab they escaped from. That sounds easy, but they mutate and escape through the air vents. Can you match the correct amoeba before your opponents?

Panic Lab is a best-selling game for people with cool heads, sharp eyes and fast hands.

Spot It: Holidays

Asmodee  

This popular matching game is all decked out for the holidays! From snowmen to candy canes, each card is decorated with an assortment of festive images, perfect for holiday stocking stuffers. Between any two cards, there is always one and only one, matching image. Spot it first to win!

There’s no better way to spend the holidays than playing Spot it! with your friends and family!

Tapple 10

USAopoly  

Tapple® 10 offers 10 unique games that are challenging and fun for the whole family. The Tapple 10 deck of 80 cards offers 160 different categories that will engage players of all ages, and comes packed in its own travel case with sand timer for fast word fun on-the-go. The included instruction booklet describes how to play each game, and the recommended number of players & difficulty level of each game.

Sassy Scents

Wild Republic  

These adorable little stuffed animals are fruit scented to match their color. Extra soft fabrics and large, glitter-rimmed eyes add to the appeal of these fun new plush pals. choose from fan favorite Strawberry Elephant, Grape Penguin, Blueberry Wolf, Cherry Red Panda, and many other colorful and popular fruit scents.

Perfect as a stocking stuffer or office grab bag. The scented is great for in the car or on office desk too

Dungeon Busters

Mayday Games  

Fight monsters, capture gems, and suspect your comrades!A party of heroes adventure into a monster infested dungeon rumored to be filled with precious gemstones! If these heroes heartily join forces they can surely defeat the monsters, but these Dungeon Busters are not without a touch of greed. If a hero holds back a bit in a brawl, perhaps all will be forgiven in the flush of victory. But beware! Should that touch of greed get out of hand and cause defeat, the laziest fighter will suffer the consequences . . .

Simon’s Cat

Steve Jackson Games   

It’s a frantic feline fandango!

This fast-paced card game for 3 to 6 players features adorable art taken directly from animator and illustrator Simon Tofield’s YouTube series, Simon’s Cat, which has hundreds of millions of views. Go around the table playing cards to escape Simon’s attention. Get caught and you get Blame. Get too much Blame and you get fed last. No one wants that. Ages 6 and up.

Before I Kill You, Mister Spy

Cheapass Games  

Alas, the tortured life of a super-villain. Every time you manage to lure a spy to your remote, painstakingly constructed lair and capture him, you face a difficult choice. Do you kill him immediately, ensuring that he won’t escape with the aid of your opponents and destroy part of your fortress on the way out? Or do you share your secret plans with him, in the hopes that he will be the only one alive capable of understanding?

Find out what kind of super-villain you’d make in “BEFORE I KILL YOU, MISTER SPY…”!

BattleGoats

CardLords  

BattleGoats is a goat filled modern combination of classic card games like Memory and War. Players alternate turns in card battle to determine a winner using the highest number value. Number values change as the game goes on. The person with the last card in play wins. Rules are easy to pick up and games play in as little as 5-30 minutes for groups of 2-6 players ages 9+.

MetaCheckers

DreamGames  

MetaCheckers is CHESS played with CHECKERS. The checkers move like chess pieces — based on the roll of a special pair of dice. The CHESS DIE tells you what kinds of moves you can make. The NUMBERS DIE tells you how many spaces you must go. Your goal: Capture your opponent’s KING CHECKER. If you add the special KANGAROO DIE, you can bring in 6 more fun moves.

With compact packaging, this is a great upscale stocking stuffer or excellent as a stand-alone gift.

The Ravens of Thri Sahashri

Osprey Games   

The Ravens of Thri Sahashri is a beautifully illustrated cooperative card game in which players must work together to rescue Ren from the darkness. Hidden amongst the cards are the memories that will stir her from her troubled slumber, and it falls upon Feth to help her find them. Communication is key, but the only means they have to do so is through patterns formed with the cards. Will Ren be saved, or will she fall prey to the ravens circling overhead?

Star Realms

White Wizard Games  

Star Realms is a spaceship combat deck building game designed by Magic Pro Tour Champions and Hall of Famers Darwin Kastle and Rob Dougherty (developer and co-founder of the Ascension Deck building Game). Star Realms offers all the thrills of traditional trading card game style combat, combined with the fun of a deck building game. Play powerful ships, destroy enemy bases or blast your opponent directly on your way to victory!

Gift Cards

Their Favorite Restaurant or Retailer

This may seem like an impersonal gift, but that’s only if don’t put any thought into it. A $5 gift card to a favorite restaurant or retailer is a gold mine to a child. Being able to buy “whatever they want” – like a hot chocolate with lots of whipped cream when mom is getting her daily coffee – is a joyous feeling. For older kids and adults, a gift card to an ice cream parlor or coffee shop is always appreciated. Pick up a multi-pack of small denominations and spread the love. These make ideal gifts for teachers and bus drivers!

These compact items make nice additions to stockings or are great for friends, neighbors or coworker gift exchanges. They offer a big impact in a small package!  Again, look for the tiny  logo on titles that we’ve previously given a full preview. Be sure to keep an eye out for most of these items to show up in our 100+ Days of Giveaways.