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Components

• 336 game cards
• 1 Dry-erase score card
• 1 Dry-erase marker
• 60-second sand timer
• Instructions sheet

Object of the Game

Score the most points by answering the most questions EVERYBODY KNOWS the answers to!

Setup

The Oldest player goes first (Or Team containing the oldest player). Any other player may be the question-reader/score-keeper. Keep the scorecard and marker within reach of the reader.

Game Play

To start the game, the first reader draws the top card and prepares to read the ten questions on the card. …

The King is desperate! The whole court is attending the joust and no one is working in the castle. The King really needs a helper! Figaro would like to help, but he is a goofy guy that always gets into mischief! Can you help him get the job while avoiding the dirty tricks of other players?

Components

• 60 cards
• 15 road pieces
• castle wall
• King figure with wooden base
• linen bag
• Rulebook

Setup

Before the first game, carefully remove the pieces from their frames. Insert the King into his wooden base. Put the road pieces in the bag. …

Components

• 46 letter tiles and 2 bonus rings
• A 60-second timer
• Pencil and paper for each player
• A dictionary
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Score the most points by finding words in the game grid.

Game Play

Choose a person (the dealer) to draw the tiles for the first round. (Set the bonus rings aside for now - they're used in rounds 2 and 3).

The dealer draws 13 tiles from the container and arranges them, letter side up, to form a grid like the one below, then starts a 60-second timer. …

Components

• 200 Horrible situation cards
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Be the best at ranking bad events from "eh" to the absolute worst.

The Misery Index

Each card could depict a bad event that has happened or COULD happen.

As you'll see, some of the situations on the cards are pretty minor (like a bee sting), and some of them are more problematic (like getting fired).

Each card has been ranked on our Misery Index. The Misery Index is our ranking system that runs from 1 to 100. …

Components

• 64 Cards
• instructions

Object of the Game

Collect the most cards by singing songs about the images on them!

Setup

Shuffle cards and place deck in the center of the table or floor within reach of all players. Lay 6 cards out (2 rows of 3) image-side up.

Game Play

As soon as everyone is ready to play, the game can begin. Zippity Do! is an ALL-PLAY game so there's no taking turns!

Players look at the 6 cards before them and try to be the first to shout out a song featuring one of the images in the song lyrics. (See a star? Go ahead and sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"). …

Components

• 56 Game Cards
• 4 Chant Cards
• Click Case
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Take a risk, or play it safe, but be the first player to get rid of all your cards and... Yowza... you win.

Setup

Place the Chant Cards so each player can see one. These will help everyone remember the order of the chant.

Shuffle the cards and deal them, face down, equally to all players. Place any odd/leftover Cards face up in the center of the play area (the discard pile). …

Components

• Game Disc
• 4 Peg Pawns
• 72 Letter Tiles
• Red Word Marker
• Storage Bag for Tiles
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Create words to gain points, and use as many of your opponents' letters as you can to cause them to lose points!

Setup

Set the Game Disc out in the middle of the playing area. Attach the Red Word Marker by clicking it into place along the bottom ridge.

Place all of the Letter Tiles in the Storage Bag and shake it up!

Randomly remove 24 Letter Tiles and place them face up in the center of the Game Disc. …

Components

• 288 KWIRKY Cards
• KWIRKY Die
• Sand Timer
• Rulebook

Object of the Game

To win the most cards in the time allowed by:

1. giving answers that other players cannot challenge successfully;

2. making successful challenges to other players' answers and winning their cards.

The questions are deceptively simple, so children may respond as easily as adults. However, it takes time to deal with some questions, and time slips by quickly in this game.

If you don't know the answer, you can always try to convince the others that you do. Quick wit and cheeky confidence are at least as important as knowledge in this game where all the answers are up for grabs. …

That sneaky Fox is slinking around again, looking to steal your prize chickens! Lucky you, he's so greedy he can't carry all the chickens he steals.

He stuffs chickens into his pockets till he loses his britches, sending chickens everywhere!

When the Fox's drawers drop, save your chickens and get them back to your coop to win!

Components

• 1 Fox and his pants
• 21 chickens
• 4 chicken coops
• 1 die
• 1 sticker sheet
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Be the first to save 5 chickens by filling up your chicken coop. …

Components

• 26 Consonant letters
• 11 Vowel letters
• 20 2-Sided Cards
• 4 Mice
• Bowl
• Die
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Be the first player to spell a word on your Card using your sneaky Mouse tail to steal Letters!

Setup

Place the Bowl in the middle of the play area. Put all of the Letters in the Bowl, randomly.

Choose one color set of Cards and place them in a stack. Some sets have shorter words with pictures, and some have longer words. Set aside the other Cards for a later game. …