UNO

OBJECT: Be the first player or team to score 500 points. Points are scored by being the first to rid yourself of all the cards in your hand before your opponents.

THE PLAY: Play cards from your hand by either matching color, number, or word on the top card of the discard pile. When you have one card left, yell Uno!

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WIZARD

The rules are simple and easy to learn… but mastering the strategy is the real challenge.

One card is dealt to each player on the first round, two cards on the second, and so on. Players bid the number of tricks they think they will win.

Make the exact number of tricks bid and you win points; too many or too few tricks and you lose points. The Wizard and Jester cards add a wild element to the strategy.

Wizard is pure fun, challenging, baffling and simply habit forming. Wizard is quickly becoming the most popular card game of the decade.

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ALIBI

Can you solve the mystery?

A crime has been committed and you must solve it. Who did it, and when? How was it done, where, and why?

Just solving the crime is not enough. Unlike older games, players need more than cold logic to win. They need a clever strategy and good timing to outscore their opponents.

The 78 attractive cards are uniquely appealing, and the score pads lead inexperienced players to a quick understanding of the game.

Whether an intimate evening or a party, Alibi provides every person with a fun and challenging pastime.

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ATLAS ADVENTURES

Travel the world and discover geography! Be the first player to build your world map and win. In level one (ages 7 and up), players must spin to collect continent and ocean puzzle pieces and complete their world map; in level two (ages 12 and up), older players must answer a trivia question first to collect a piece. Happy or sad faces on the spinner require you to give, take or trade pieces. Includes 200 cards with 400 questions.

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BRAIN QUEST

The Games Where It's O.K. to Be Smart! These fast-paced games help kids develop the skills that they'll need to succeed in school. Since players compete at their own age levels, Brain Quest is designed for children of different ages to play together and it actually makes learning fun.

The game for grades 1 – 6 includes more than 1,500 questions on school-related subjects. Teacher’s Choice Award and National Parenting Publication Award.

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TOTALLY GROSS!

Want to help kids understand chemistry, biology and more? A dose of gross helps science make sense! Did you know snot keeps your lungs clean? Or that some bullfrogs are cannibals? Learn this and more as you travel around the game board answering queasy questions. Land on a Gross-Out space, and you may have to check another player for toe jam or describe the last time you threw up! Every time you answer a question or complete a Gross-Out, stretch your slime on the score line. Stretch it to 10 and complete a Lab Experiment to win the game! Full of action and information, it's an educational game they'll actually enjoy.

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SCRABBLE

Take the challenge of making the best use of 7 letter tiles for just the right combination of wordplay, competition and fun. The Scrabble game draws family and friends around the board with the fun of building interlocking words and the competition for racking up big scores!

Connect the classic wood letter tiles up, down and across the board to create distinct crosswords every game. Whether you play traditional rules or the rules for shorter gameplay, there's a new challenge every time you play.

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QUICKWORD

Players of Quickword particiapte in every turn in a race to complete their scorecard first. To complete the scorecard, players must cross of each colored box by winning a word game of that category.

In a turn a player throws the die and moves the token around the board to select the game category to be played by all players. Quickword contains four different categories, each represented by a different color card. Blue cards are a straight race against the 90-second timer as players write down as many words as they can within the chosen subject, and only unique answers score. Green cards give six topics and players score points for unique answers beginning with the letter determined by the spinner. Pink cards require players to come up with as many words as possible that start with the letter indicated by the spinner and contain the two or more letters shown on the card. Finally, gray cards include several variations and degrees of difficulty.

Quickword is a fast and competitive word game that offers a variety of different challenges, requires a little luck, involves strategy and locks players in verbal combat. Quickword modestly describes itself as The Ultimate Word Game. If it isn't, it's very close.

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WORDSEARCH

In Wordsearch every player gets to see — and use — all the letters that are on the game board. So everyone has the same word-making opportunities and the same word-making fun.

On your turn search the board letters that can be made into a word. As long as you can slide a tile without another one in its path — it's good! Once you connect them add up your points. The longer the word — the more points you score.

With every move the board changes — creating new possibilities and new challenges.

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TRIVIAL PURSUIT

For the first time ever, Trivial Pursuit game cards cover one topic with three question levels: easy, medium, and hard. The more challenging the question you answer, the farther you'll move along the bonus track. And that's not all. The zones along the track let you steal wedges, move opponents' tokens, and more! It's a very special anniversary edition with extra options, extra strategy, and extra fun for everyone!

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GAME OF KNOWLEDGE

The Fun Educational Game for Children and Their Parents Which is worth more — a bucket full of nickels or the same bucket half full of dimes? What letter is not used to start the name of a country? How many outs are in a 9-inning baseball game won by the visiting team? More appealing than other trivia games because you use the knowledge that you already have to answer questions for your own age group. Questions for two different age groups: 10-15 and 16 and up. Two sets of questions so players compete on their own level. A perfect fit if you're searching for fun, family entertainment.

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SCENE IT?

Scene It? Deluxe Movie 2nd Edition picks right up where the original left off. From the moment you pop in the DVD, you'll experience the very best in motion picture trivia from movies like Walk the Line, Dodge Ball and Casablanca. If you're really into movies, then let Scene It? Movie 2nd Edition put your movie trivia knowledge to the ultimate test. Ages 13 – Adult.

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RISK

History is written by the victors! The classic Game of Global Domination has been reinvented with revised rules for faster game-play, and two new, exciting levels of play: Basic Training and Command Room.

Capitals and cities give you extra troops. Minor and major objectives give you additional goals and possibly extra abilities.

In Basic Training, you must accomplish 3 objectives to win — they don't give you any special abilities. In Command Room, you must accomplish 3 objectives — and they do give you special abilities. In World Conquest, you must take over the entire world — and get to use the special abilities of objectives you achieve. In all 3 versions, you must control your capital to win.

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EXPLORERS

The adventure scenarios are the actual journeys of such explorers as Marco Polo, Nansen, Scott, Drake, Cook, etc. Players pick a journey, make preparations, assemble crews & venture forth. They make the trip together, each handling different aspects of the expedition. Lots of adventure & an educational eye-opener about the life of explorers. A good family & classroom game.

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HARE & TORTOISE

In the classic Hare and Tortoise players are racing their rabbits around the course, as fast as they can. Players must learn how to moderate their movement, however; because carrots are needed for movement, and the only way to get more is to move backwards! Players must balance the patient movement of a turtle, while making leaps forward when they can to win this race. An excellent exercise in arithmetic, this gem of a game handles up to six players and offers many choices and decisions, as players zoom their rabbits around the track.

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