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Family and Friends

Great games for family get togethers. Playable by young and old.

Gifts under $15

Great games and toys under $15.00

Kids 3-6 years

No reading skills required. Fun, even for adults.

Kids 7-10 or so

Laughter and strategy. The whole family will love these games with a younger slant.

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Just the newest and hottest games. Highly recommended.

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Bananagrams

Our Price: $14.95

At long last, a fast moving family word game.

Each player races to use all of his/her tiles in crossword fashion. Very popular!

From the Publisher:

Bananagrams by Bananagrams is the award winning Anagram Game that will drive you Bananas! It's fast, easy and requires no paper nor pencil. Place all 144 letter tiles face down. For two to four players, each draws 21 letters and begins independently to construct his or her own connecting or intersecting words, rearranging them as often as desired. When a player finishes, additional tiles are drawn from the "bunch." Educational and great family fun! For ages six and up.

Warning: Choking Hazard. Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

Say Anything

Our Price: $22.50

From the publisher:

What do your friends REALLY think?

Say Anything is a light-hearted game about what you and your friends think. It will get people talking, laughing, and having fun in minutes. Enjoy it with 3 - 8 family members (players must be able to write) or as a hilarious party game with adults. So dig deep into your heart or just come up with something witty -- this is your chance to Say Anything!

Sample Questions

What would be the coolest movie prop to own?
What's the most important technology of the past century?
What's the worse thing about being a woman?
What would I want most for my next birthday?
What TV theme song is the most fun to sing with friends?
What would be the most fun thing to throw off a tall building?

Warning: Choking Hazard. Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

Chain Game

Our Price: $24.95

From the manufacturer:

"Race to say a common phrase using one word from the previous phrase. Keep the chain going and you keep your links. If the horn blows, the time is up, and you lose a link. The next player reads a new card and the fun continues!

Fast, fresh, and free-flowing�The Chain Game will be the link that brings your friends and family together."

Another great offering from Out of the Box -- the creators of Apples to Apples. Of the games we're stocking up on for the holidays this year, this is our staff's favorite!

Warning: Choking Hazard. Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

Backseat Drawing

Our Price: $23.95

From the publisher:

Two teams race to identify drawings done by their own team members. But the artists don't know what they are drawing -- they can only follow the instructions given by another team member. Laughter erupts as players attempt to follow direction and to guess what is being drawn.

With Backseat Drawing, there's no time to stop and ask directions -- the fun never stops!

Word On The Street

Price $24.95

On each turn, one team flips over a
category card. Team members frantically brainstorm
words that fit the category while the opposition
tries to sidetrack them. The team must agree
on a word and pull each letter of that word
one lane closer to their side of the street,
all before the time runs out. Word
on the Street� will have you in the fast lane to fun!

Warning: Choking Hazard. Small Parts. Not for children under 3
yrs.

Pengoloo

Our Price: $27.50

From the publisher:

A fun new way to stretch the mind, the Pengoloo Game from Blue Orange Games tests kids memory as they race to match colored eggs and collect penguin pals to win. In the Pengoloo Game, players must first put an egg in each penguin and mix them up in the center and pass out iceberg scoreboards. To start playing the Pengoloo Game, the youngest player rolls the 2 multi-colored die and then has 2 tries to find eggs under the penguins that match one or both colors on the die. If a player finds one matching egg, he or she places the penguin by their iceberg; and if the player finds both matching eggs, he or she places both penguins by their iceberg and plays again. Watch out - finding eggs in the Pengoloo Game is trickier than it sounds since you have to remember their locations. The first player to collect 6 penguins wins the game! The Pengoloo Game from Blue Orange Games includes 12 penguins, 12 colored eggs, 4 iceberg scoring pads, and 2 colored die. For 2 to 6 players.

Warning: Choking Hazard. Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

Spy Alley

Our Price: $29.95

From the publisher:

From Mata Hari to James Bond, spies and secret agents have filled our imaginations. Now, you have the chance to play spy and counter spy in a dark alley - SPY ALLEY.

Deceptively simple and surprisingly intense, Spy Alley keeps you on the edge of your seat. Players become a spy for their given country and try to uncover their opponents' identity while keeping their own identity a secret. Players use deductive reasoning to expose other spies while attempting to complete their mission by obtaining the necessary code books, disguises, keys and passwords. You will be surprised how difficult it is to deceive your friends and family. A slip of the tongue, the blink of an eye, or even the twitch of a muscle may give your identity away.

Players must be careful when entering Spy Alley. It is a calculated risk that only the bravest spies will take. The first spy to complete their mission or the last to retain their identity wins the game.

Warning: Choking Hazard. Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

Buddha Board -- Original

Price $28.00

Based on the Zen concept of livng in the moment, one simply paints on the board's special surface with water. The image darkens and slowly fades away allowing one to paint something new.

Create spontaneous art again and again!

This is a 12" by 9.5" specially-treated repaintable canvas.

Comes with a bamboo brush and water holder/stand.

Wizard Card Game - Original Edition *On Sale*

Price $7.95
Sale Price: $6.50

Wizard is a several times selection of Games Magazine. Wizard is a trumps and bidding game which is easier for kids than hearts (fewer cards to hold, quicker rounds) and as appealing to adults as euchre. In the first round, each player gets one card; there will be one trick. Everyone bids. In the second round there are two tricks. Total of bids may or may not equal the number of tricks available. At the end of the round, each player who makes his bid gets 20 points plus 10 per trick one. Miss your bid and lose 10 points per trick.

Here's how one thoughtful reader responded, "Hi - I'm not too happy with your review of Wizard. We are four adult female relatives who happily play Wizard all afternoon once a week, and have done so for two years straight! It's like Spades plus wild cards, only better. It's a wonderful, wonderful game and I can't figure out why it's not better known - but I don't know anyone who's heard of it.* It's much more interesting than Euchre because of the added risk, and also because it calls for more skill in bidding and taking tricks; that's not a good comparison (Euchre bores us). It's a TERRIFIC game and we're so glad I happened on it at your Keystone Crossing store! - Mary et al. (Indianapolis) Mary also wrote, "We wore out enough sets of cards that we eventually bought plastic cards and made up our own sets, buying blank cards to label 'Wizards'. The cards are not of great quality - poorer quality than generic poker cards you can buy in the drug store."

Another customer testimonial came when I was showing Wizard to a customer in our store recently. A shopper who happened to be standing nearby chimed in. She said, "Our family loves Wizard...even the people who claim not to like cards. We call it the card game for people who don't play card games." She made the sale. * Note to Mary, somebody has heard of Wizard. It has led our card games department in sales for the past two years.

Bilz Box

Price $10.95

Lots of fun for giving cash or checks. The Bilz Box is clear acrylic. One can see the cash or check inside there. The challenge is to get it out by successfully guiding a small ball through a two level maze. (You don't need to solve the maze to load the box, only to unload it) For a larger image, double click the thumbnail illustration at left. Hundreds sold. Compare our price to the catalogs.