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Puzzle Games

BARREL OF MONKEYS

The Barrel of Monkeys is a barrel of fun!  Dump your monkeys out on a table and pick up one monkey by his arm.  Hook other arms through a second monkey's arm and continue to make a chain.  Your turn is over when a monkey is dropped, and the first player to hook together 12 monkeys wins!  Barrel colors are assorted.
BLOCK HEAD!

Block Head is the original stacking game!  Players start with the base card, then choose one of the 13 shapes to begin. Players keep building the tower higher and wider until someone makes it fall! Block Head is  a balancing skill game that's fun for the whole family.
BUSY BEETLES

The challenge of Busy Beetles is to see how many you can connect! With eight differently colored and shaped beetles you can link them into wild patterns or endless chains! Can you connect 10, 20, or all of them?

Contents of Busy Beetles:
100 plastic interlocking beetles
Storage container
Instructions

CHOCOLATE FIX

Chocolate Fix is not only visually appealing, it's also a good fun way to exercise your brain muscles! In this logical deduction game, you must evaluate and combine clues to solve each puzzle challenge by getting all nine chocolate pieces into their correct positions. Keep mentally fit with Chocolate Fix!

Chocolate Fix comes with 40 Challenge cards that range from beginner to expert, and a "Game-Go" bag for taking the game on trips.
COVER YOUR TRACKS

Journey through mud, sand, snow and cement then cover your tracks to avoid being followed!  Cover Your Tracks is an entertaining and engaging game for kids that increases their spatial development skills as they play.  After selecting one of the 20 challenge cards, they place all four pieces on the game tray to cover their tracks as they journey across different terrains.  This fun and mind-challenging game will definately keep kids coming back for more!  Included is a "Game-Go" bag for taking the game on trips.

Contents of Cover Your Tracks:
4 Game Pieces (Red, Orange, Green, Blue)
1 Cover Your Tracks Game Tray
1 Game-Go Bag
Instructions
DOUBLE TANGOES

Tangoes is based on the 4,000 year old Chinese Tangram puzzle.  Legend says that a man dropped a porcelain tile which broke into seven pieces.  As Tan tried to reconstruct the square, he created various shapes.  Today there are hundreds of designs that can be made with the seven pieces.  With twice the pieces of the original, the object of Double Tangoes is to make the shapes shown on the cards using all 14 puzzle pieces of the same color!  Double Tangoes combines artistic and mathematical elements to enhance visual perception ability in adults and children. 

Contents of Double Tangoes:
2 sets of puzzle pieces
108 puzzle cards

HOPPERS PUZZLE

In Hoppers Puzzle, players have 12 cute hopping frogs along with 40 challenge cards that provide problems to solve.  The puzzles start easy and get very difficult.  This game also includes a convenient storage tray.
HOT SPOT

Hot Spot is a game of robot motion where players help the red robot jump to the hot spot on the game board.  The red robot works with a team of blue and green robots to create the right path to the finish line.  Hot Spot comes with 40 challenges ranging from beginner to expert, allowing kids to learn at their own pace.  With bright, colorful game pieces and cool robot characters, kids will want to reach the hot spot again and again!

Contents of Hot Spot: 
1 Red Hero Robot
5 Green Robots
4 Blue Robots
1 Hot Spot Game Grid with Storage Compartment
40 Mind Challenge Cards with Solutions
Instructions
META-FORMS LOGIC BUILDER

Meta-Forms is a puzzle game in which you use visual clues to place nine geometric shapes into a grid and find the unique solution to each puzzle. This brain builder has intuitive clues allowing young children to understand and progress. As players move through six successive levels, they acquire solid logic and reasoning skills as they advance. Build your awareness of pure logic through Meta-Forms!

Contents of Meta-Forms:
9 Forms
1 Grid
Book Containing 80 Logic Puzzles and Their Solutions

PETE'S PIKE

Pete must reach the top of the mountain with the help of five mountain goats.  Pete's Pike comes with 40 Mind Challenge cards which range from beginner to expert.  Each of the cards challenges players to find the right sequence for Pete and the goats to reach the top of the mountain.  Kids learn problem solving and teamwork skills as they have a great time conquering each of the 40 different challenges.  Pete's Pike comes in a self contained storage compartment for on the go fun!

Contents of Pete's Pike: 
Pete the Mountain Climber
5 Mountain Goat Helpers
1 Mountain Top Game Grid with Storage Compartment
40 Challenge Cards with Solutions
Instructions
PIRATE'S GOLD

Pirate's Gold is a strategic thinking game where you are a pirate searching through an underground cave looking for hidden treasure. You can easily see and reach the golden treasure chests but your escape route is filled with obstacles that have been cleverly put in your path! You must steer your pirate along the game board carefully and use your wits and your sequential reasoning skills to escape with the gold!

Pirate's Gold comes with 40 Challenge cards that range from beginner to expert, and a "Game-Go" bag for taking the game on trips.

Contents of Pirate's Gold:
40 Challenge Cards
8 Skeleton Blocking Tokens
4 Gold Treasure Chests
8 Sliding Arrow Tokens
1 Pirate
Instructions
RAILROAD RUSH HOUR

Traffic jam in the switching yard! Can you move the engine through the gridlock of boxcars, cabooses, tankers, and luggage platforms? 50 puzzles ranging from beginner to advanced are included with this game.

RIVER CROSSING

From the makers of Rush Hour and Hoppers comes River Crossing!  In this challenging brain game, you have to help a stranded hiker cross a snake and alligator infested river.  This is a linear problem solving game for one player, much like Rush Hour and its variations, but the movement works differently.  Instead of just sliding back and forth, the Hiker can actually pick up a log, carry it down the path, and set it down.  The game comes with 40 different puzzles in 4 levels of difficulty.  Fans of other Binary Arts puzzles like Prairie Dog Town and the Classic Fifteen Puzzle will find something fun and different with River Crossing.
RIVER CROSSING 2

River Crossing 2 is an expansion containing 40 all new river crossing challenges for the original River Crossing puzzle!  Give your brain a workout while dodging grizzles, leaping salmon, roaming otters, and busy beavers.  Requires the original River Crossing to play.
Contents of River Crossing 2:
1 husky dog
10 hollow stumps
10 solo hiker crossings
15 dog rescues
15 hiker and dog crossings
Instructions
RIVER CROSSING JR.

River Crossing Jr. - The Perilous Plank Puzzle includes 40 river crossing and cat rescue challenges designed especially for kids!  The object of this puzzle is to help your hiker cross the lagoon - without getting wet!  Players use tree stumps and wooden planks to create a path to the opposite shore or to rescue a stranded cat.  Move the planks between the tress stumps to work you way across the lagoon, or build a single continuous path of planks from the stranded cat to the shore.  This set includes challenges designed for both beginners and experts.

Contents of River Crossing Junior:
Peg board game frame
2 magnetic hikers
5 magnetic planks
14 tree stumps
40 challenge cards
Travel bag
Instructions and solutions

RUSH HOUR

Escape! That's the goal.  Rush Hour is a premier sliding block puzzle designed to challenge your sequential-thinking skills (and perhaps your traffic-officer aspirations as well)!  There are 40 puzzle challenge cards and four levels of play: beginner, intermediate, advanced, and expert.  Start by selecting a puzzle card and placing the cars and trucks on the playing grid as indicated.  Next, shift the blocking cars and trucks out of your way until the path is cleared to make good your escape.  Start simple with Level 1 puzzles, and move up from there.  By the time you hit Level 4 you'll be ready for some of the meanest traffic unsnarling challenges ever imagined!

Contents of Rush Hour:
Playing surface grid
11 blocking cars
1 fancy car
4 blocking trucks
40 puzzle cards
Instructions
RUSH HOUR 2

The Rush Hour 2 expansion set includes 40 all new challenge cards for your Rush Hour Traffic Jam Puzzle! With 10 intermediate, 10 advanced, 10 expert, and 10 grand master challenges, you can supercharge your brain with high-level fun and excitement. As an added bonus this set includes a red convertible for use with your game set. Please Note: the original Rush Hour is required for play.
RUSH HOUR 3

The Rush Hour 3 expansion set includes 40 all new challenge cards for your Rush Hour Traffic Jam Puzzle! With 10 intermediate, 10 advanced, 10 expert, and 10 grand master challenges, you can supercharge your brain with high-level fun and excitement. As an added bonus this set includes a stretch limo for use with your game set. Please Note: the original Rush Hour is required for play.

RUSH HOUR 4

The Rush Hour 4 expansion set includes 40 all new challenge cards for your Rush Hour Traffic Jam Puzzle!  With 10 intermediate, 10 advanced, 10 expert, and 10 grand master challenges, you can supercharge your brain with high-level fun and excitement.  As an added bonus this set includes a taxi cab for use with your game set.  Please Note:  the original Rush Hour is required for play.
RUSH HOUR JUNIOR

In Rush Hour Junior, the players shifts the blocking cars and trucks out of their way to clear a path to the exit! This puzzle contains 40 challenges ranging from beginner to expert that are specially designed for kids 6 to 8 years old.
SAFARI RUSH HOUR

Holy Serengeti!  You're on safari and wild beasts surround you.  Shift wild animals around to clear a path to get back to camp!

SCRAMBLE SQUARES - COCKTAILS

Scramble Squares - Cocktails is a fun and challenging puzzle for kids of all ages! Unscramble the nine pieces by matching the pictures and match all the pieces to their counterpart. Easy to play, but hard to solve. Includes information and trivia about Cocktails. Winner of the Dr. Toy 10 Best Educational Products Award.
SCRAMBLE SQUARES - NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Scramble Squares - New York, New York is a fun and challenging puzzle for kids of all ages! Unscramble the nine pieces by matching the pictures and match all the pieces to their counterpart. Easy to play, but hard to solve. Includes information and trivia about New York. Winner of the Dr. Toy 10 Best Educational Products Award.
TOP THIS!

Top This! is a challenging game that will confound your ability to visualize and match patterns.  The game cards specify different blue and orange puzzle shapes you must create by stacking orange pieces on top of blue pieces or vice versa. Top This! comes with 40 challenges ranging from beginner to expert offering more challenging fun with greater numbers of game pieces. 

Contents of Top This!:
40 Mind Challenge Cards (solutions included)
10 Orange Game Pieces
10 Blue Game Pieces
Game-Go Bag
Instructions
Card Holder

TREASURE QUEST

Treasure Quest is a mind challenging puzzle game for single players.  Build your confidence as you move through the 40 Challenge cards that range from beginner to expert.  Your goal is to help the Treasure Hunter maneuver around the game board pushing movable obstacles aside.  Push the Gold Masks off the grid and out of the temple to win!  Included is a "Game-Go" bag for taking the game on trips.

Contents of Treasure Quest:
1 Treasure Hunter
4 Gold Masks
8 Arrow Pieces
8 Stationary Blocking Pieces
1 Temple Game Grid
1 Game-Go Bag
Instructions
ZOOKEEPER'S NIGHTMARE

In Zookeeper's Nightmare, you're face to face with an escaped animal!  You've got to find the runaway animal and slide it and guide it back home.  But look out!  There are animals in the way everywhere. They've got to be moved up, down, left, and right to make way for the runaway. Included are 18 leveled puzzles and instructions showing you how to create your own Zookeeper Nightmare puzzles!
 
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