Fun and educational games for kids ages 6 and up, provide opportunities for learning. Children understand to follow the rules, take turns, focus on the game, and accept wins and losses. Many games include math concepts, reading fine motor manipulation, hand-eye-coordination, and visual perceptual skills practice. Concentrating on game strategies and figuring out creative game solutions boosts reasoning, and thinking skills. The best aspect of playing games with friends and family is enjoyment, bonding, and laughter!

Operation Game

Operation is a classic family game. Kids use the tweezers to operate on Sam to make him feel better. Players choose a card a doctor card and maneuver to remove the ailment from Sam. Players collect money if they can carefully avoid the buzz. Sam’s Cavity includes 12 funny illnesses; Adam’s apple, butterflies in the stomach, funny bone, wishbone, and bread basket — in their place are slightly modernized (for the most part) ailments such as headphone headache, gamer’s thumb, cranky knee, frostbite, heartburn, hangnail, ringing in his ear and rumbling tummy. The player with the most money wins. For 1 or more players, game for kids ages 6 and up. Let’s scrub in!

Perfection Game

Perfection is a blast from the past developed by MENSA for kids. Players compete to be the first to fill in all the 25 shapes in their respective spots. Set the timer and complete the task before the tray pops. The player who completes the game in the shortest time wins. Play without the timer, so it is easier for younger players (perfection with fewer and bigger pieces is also available to younger kids). Children practice valuable skills, including focus, dexterity, hand-eye coordination, and visual perceptual skills. For 1 or more players, game for kids 6 and up. Ready, set, go!

Connect 4 Game

Connect 4 is a classic disc dropping game. Drop your red or yellow discs vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Will you start in the middle or at the edge? Make sure you watch your opponent and block their attempts. When you get four-in-a-row, you win. For 2 players, game for kids ages 6 and up. Fun classic strategy game.

Jenga Game

Jenga is a classic stacking tower game that families enjoyed for generations. Slide-out wood blocks one by one and place them on top of the stack. Plan your strategy; every move counts. Stack and balance the blocks and keep the tower from crashing. This game includes 54 precision-crafted hardwood blocks, along with an easy-to-use stacking sleeve to help build the perfect tower. For 1 or more players, game for kids ages 6 and up. Let’s Jenga!

Sorry! Board Game

Sorry is a game of sweet revenge. Each player starts with 4 pawns. The game’s goal is to get all your pawns from the start to home by traveling around the board. Players move their pawns by drawing cards to see how many spaces you can proceed. Read the cards carefully for specific rules for example; a number 11 will allow you to move 11 spaces or switch spaces with your opponent; another card might say to move backward 4 spaces or split the number between any 2 pawns. If you land on a triangle, slide to the circle and bump all the pieces on your way. You may not share the space with another pawn; therefore, the other player’s pawns go back to the start. For 2-4 players, game for kids ages 6 and up. Oops, sorry, but are you sorry?

Checkers & Tic Tac Toe

Checkers & Tic Tac Toe is 2 in 1 reversible game board. Both games are classic strategy games that genuinely do not need much explanation—an excellent way to stimulate young minds and have fun. For 2 players, game for kids ages 6 and up. Timeless games of logic.

Hedbanz Game

Hedbanz is a fun family guessing game. Every player wears a headband, draws a card, and without looking, inserts their card into the clip on their headband. The player asks, “what am I?” and asks yes and no questions to figure out what the picture represents. Ask questions and make connections that will lead you to answers. Race against the one-minute sand to guess your card and win. For 2-4 players, game for kids ages 6 and up. Fast-paced, energy-packed, witty, and humorous.

The Game of Life

Game of Life is a board game where players are in charge of their life path. Head to college or forget higher education and get a job. Venture down the family path, start a career, or go down the risky path. If you initially skipped college but choose to go back and get a degree, you will have the opportunity to go to night school and get a better job. Adopt pets, have kids, celebrate life’s milestones. The goal is to retire rich. The player who retires with the most wealth wins the game. For 2-4 players, game for kids ages 6 and up. Younger players might need help with reading cards but still enjoy the game—experience a life of action, adventure, and surprises. Awesome family time!

Blokus Game

Blokus is a Mensa award game promoting healthy brain activity. Each player gets 21 pieces in one color (red, yellow, blue, or green) and needs to fit as many pieces on the game board as possible. Start at the corner and match your piece’s corner to the corner; you cannot place your block’s side by the side. Be the first one to put all your blocks on the board. The player with the least amount of pieces left wins. For 4 players, game for kids ages 6 and up. The game can be played by 2 players controlling two colors if 4 players are unavailable. Excellent family game with endless brain-boosting strategy

Kerplunk Game

Kerplunk is a game with sticks, marbles, and a translucent tube. Players design a web of sticks midway in the tower and pour marbles over the top. Then, players take turns to skillfully remove one stick at a time and try their best not to drop a marble. Eventually, all marbles will go “Ker Plunk!” The player with the least amount of marbles wins the game. For 2-4 players, game for kids ages 6 and up. Quick, easy, and exciting. Be cool and precise, focus, and do not let the marbles drop.

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