Choose an astronaut and set of on a mission to outer space to save your robot friend! An interactive game storybook where children are the heroes that make the decisions! Choose a character, make different decisions, collect items, and try to reach the best ending! These game books promote critical-thinking and decision-making skills while encouraging learning from past experiences. For children ages 6 – 10, or younger children accompanied by an adult.

Cake-N-Bake Challenge brings cooking show excitement to your home. This fast-paced, color-matching, cake-building game (now with new group play cards, new packaging, and a lower price point) where the fastest baker wins! Using foam cake slices and icing cards, stack your cake correctly and watch out for Special Recipe Cards like the One-Hand Card or Candle Thief Card. Follow Group Challenge Cards together. Be the first to collect six candle cards to win the game – fun for all ages!

Race your opponents to grab markers, memorize patterns, and complete your coloring challenge with speed and accuracy.

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The Dodo has laid an egg, but … oh no! She accidentally pushed it out of her nest, and it tumbled toward the edge of the cliff. Can you save the egg before it falls into the sea? Work together to roll the die, collect materials, and build new bridges to help guide the Dodo’s wibbly-wobbly egg safely into the boat at the foot of the mountain.

The Dog Ate My Homework ($24.99 for ages 5+), the classic excuse that has been hounding teachers for generations, has been turned into a fun game, letting players transform a mischievous dog’s mess into a masterpiece of family entertainment. Players face off against a dog with a taste for homework by taking turns feeding homework sheets into the dog’s mouth, turning its ear, and retrieving the shreds from the other end. Unscramble the pieces to correctly guess the hidden image before the timer runs out. Each successful guess earns a doggie treat, and the player with the most treats after three rounds is the winner.

Fish & Katz is a fast-paced kitty-themed set collection game that comes with cute soft kitty finger paws that you wear on one finger and use to select your cards. On the count of 1-2-3-MEW, all players simultaneously slap their kitty paw on a card they want. Anyone who is the ONLY paw on the card gets to keep it, but any cards that have more than one greedy paw on them get discarded.

Star Realms Academy “My First Deckbuilding Game” is a fantastic introduction to deckbuilding for both kids and adults. This is a kid-friendly but still fun for grown-ups version of the popular Star Realms deckbuilding game for 2 players. Create a powerful deck of spaceships and bases as you take turns buying from the Shop Row. Less math, no reading necessary, but still tons of fun!

Working together or by themselves, children ages five and up solve various riddles to open the cookie jars. The six distinct types of visual puzzles, which are shown on thirty-six illustrated, large-format cards, are combined in new ways each round. Use the simple decoder wheel to determine if your solution is correct. What are you waiting for? Get going to Monsterville!

Who Took My Nuts? ($24.99 for 2-6 players ages 6+) is the silly squirrel-themed acorn-collecting game is designed by a team of college students from Otis College of Art and Design who won the 2024 University Games contest for an original board game idea. The students scurried to gather the fun animal themed concept for Who Took My Nuts , a game where players must offer the squirrel the correct food or bluff their way to an acorn trade. While the squirrel looks to exchange acorns for his favorite foods, players who are bluffing may be called out by their opponents and risk losing their nuts.

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Flip some delicious donuts to reach the number 12! Sharp minds will aim for a sweet victory by combining different donut flavors to get their dozen first. Add some sugar-loving bees to the frenzy as they are eager to get a taste!

Colt Express, the famous Bandit board game with about 800,000 boxes sold all around the world is finally including a Kid version. This time, it is not a matter of stealing the train, but instead attempting to collect stolen loots, defeat the bad Bandits. But be careful Kids, don’t let them catch you. Team up to thwart the Bandits’ plans!

Embark on the daring challenge of 13 Beavers where players must navigate the board with luck and nerve to reach Beaver Paradise first. The objective is straightforward: be the first Beaver to achieve this illustrious status!

In the high-flying Shoe Shoo Pigeons! Game (for 2-4 players ages 6+) players try to be the first to collect all your color shoes. Can you send your shoes soaring without disturbing the pigeons?

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Rest assured, University Games has its newest Briarpatch branded Pete the Cat game ready for Holiday gameplay. Based on the hilarious bedtime story from Kimberly and James Dean’s New York Times bestselling Pete the Cat series, the new Pete the Cat Bedtime Blues Game ($29.99 for ages 3+) is a simple-to-learn game of slumber party antics. In this game, players act out bedtime activities and try to put their group of Pete the Cat playing figures to bed atop a precarious pop-up platform bed. However, these colorful, clever little cats just might jump off at any time. The latest game is an extension of Briarpatch’s phenomenally successful line of Pete the Cat children’s products licensed from MerryMakers Inc.