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The bistro is bustling with activity. Your waiter Pierre can't seem to keep the orders straight Balance your plates on his tray, but watch out for the wobble!

Too many plates and Pierre tumbles to the ground. Don't Tip the Waiter or you'll be forced to pay up In this "nerve-racking, food-stacking" game of fun!

Components

• 12 Large Plates of Food
• 12 Small Plates of Food
• 12 funny money dollars
• 1 Waiter with tray
• Instructions

Setup

Assemble place the waiter on the table. Place the plates in a draw pile where everybody can reach them. Everyone takes 3 dollars. …

Components

• 4 Raccoon cards
• 20 Costume cards
• 1 Jumbo color die
• 1 Jumbo costume die
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Match colors and shapes to be- the- first to collect 5~ costume cards.

Setup

Place all 20 costume cards face up in the center of the table. Each player chooses a raccoon player card.

Game Play

The youngest player goes first.

Roll both dice, then pick up a costume card that matches both dice and place it on your raccoon player card.

Example: If you rolled a "yellow" and a "top", then you could pick up the lifeguard card. …

Ricochet is played out over a series of rounds. In each round, turn over the top card from the deck face up into the center of a four-card layout.

Then race against your opponents to find the last (5th) card by following the pinballs on the bottom of the cards.

Each pinball indicates which card to look for next according to color and size.

The last remaining card is the 5th card, which is awarded to the first player to correctly identify and slap it. …

Components

• Game board
• 6 Decks of color - coded playing cards
• Scorecards
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Get as many of your cards on the game board as possible - as quickly as possible! Cards must be put on the board in matching suits and in order from lowest to highest.

You will play cards on the game board from your 13-card pile, your 'Row of Four' and your hand-held cards, as explained below.

At the end of each round, you will get points for your cards on the game board. Any cards remaining in your 13-card pile will count against you. …

Components

• 12 dude cards
• 12 dude? cards
• 12 dooode cards
• 12 dewd cards
• 12 tiny dude cards
• 12 tie-dyed dude cards
• Instructions

Setup

Pick a card color and take those 12 cards.

Look through your cards. The word "dude" appears on each card in one of six different ways:

Object of the Game

Quickly find matches for as many of your cards as you can.

The Essence of Dude

You say the word "dude" as you think it should be said, based on how it appears on your card. …

Components

• 12 surfer dude cards
• 12 robot dude cards
• 12 pizza box dude cards
• 12 pirate dude cards
• 12 ghost dude cards
• 12 cowboy dude cards
• Instructions

Setup

Pick a card color and take those 12 cards.

Look through your cards. The word "dude" appears on each card, along with one of six different characters:

Object of the Game

Quickly find matches for as many of your cards as you can.

The Essence of More Dude

You say the word "dude" as you think the character on your card would say the word "dude". …

Components

• 37 ZOOB Pieces
• 24 ZOOB Creation Cards
• 1 Game Board
• 1 Die
• 4 Playing Pieces
• Instructions

Object of the Game

To be the first player to collect all of the ZOOB pieces shown on the ZOOB Creation Card, move to FINISH and construct a secret ZOOB Creation.

Setup

• Place the ZOOB pieces in the box bottom.

• Each player chooses a playing piece and places it at the START space that matches its color.

• Shuffle the ZOOB Creation Card deck. Deal one card face down to each player. Players do not show their cards to each other. …

Components

• 48 Puzzling Picture cards
• 48 Brain Bender cards
• 32 Body Language cards
• 1 Card Holder
• 1 Game Board
• 6 Colored Pawns
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Play as teams and work together to answer mind-bending challenges in this Cerebellum Showdown! The first team to reach the FINISH space wins!

On your turn, will you play the card you've been dealt, or will you take your chances with the luck of the draw?

The more difficult the challenge, the more spaces you can move ahead! you decide! …

Components

• 192 Game Cards
• 40 Game Tiles
• 6 Pawns
• 6 Scorecards
• 1 Game Board
• 1 Game Die
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Be the first player to collect a game tile from all four categories to win!

Categories

Setup

1. Assemble the game board as shown above.

2. Pop out the 40 game tiles, and randomly place them face down - "Brain Games" side up - in the hexagon spaces on the game board. One tile per space. START spaces remain empty.

3. Sort the deck of Game Cards by category to form 4 smaller decks: VISION, LOGIC, LANGUAGE, and MIND & BODY. …

Components

• 9 landscape tiles
• 14 animal tiles
• 77 offspring tiles
• 5 delivery trucks
• 1 red wooden disc
• 5 zoo boards
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Each player is the director of a small zoo. Players try to fill their enclosures with animal and landscape tiles.

Points are awarded for both at the end of the game. Once the enclosures are full, excess animals must go into the barn, where they score minus points. The player with the most points wins.

Setup

• With 3 players, remove the animal and offspring tiles of two kinds of animals from the game.
• With 4 players, remove the animal and offspring tiles of one kind of animal from the game.
• With 5 players, all tiles are used.

The offspring tiles can be recognized by the circle on the reverse side. There are also circles on their front sides, around the animals. Place the offspring tiles on the table, face up, just to the side of the playing area. …