Gifts: Unique Board games in English

Pet Five (One, Many, Math 1-5)

For the little ones, who have just learned the difference between “one” and “many”

Select the cards with one to five animals. 

In the more complicated version of the rules, the players race each other! 

This means that the child has to count the animals and quickly find the required card.

HurriCount (Counting, Comparison, Inequalities)

A quick way to learn, how to count and compare numbers

The first person to count all the hedgehogs and the birds on the cards yells “Got it!” and collects the harvest!

This exceptionally creative game set with bright and captivating animal pictures packaged in a small box gives the whole family a great opportunity to have fun while exploring Basic Math.

The game is organized in such a way that the learning process happens somewhere in the background, so it won't be hard to convince your child to sit down and play. Kids don't just master counting, they learn to determine the number of objects on any card, and this compares favorably in their mind with annoying drills. Soon, an addition from 1 to 10 won’t require any mental effort.

HurriCount develops your child’s attention and logic and improves mental processing and response time.

HurriCount Mathitude (Counting, Comparison, Inequalities)

Helps preschoolers learn how to count and compare numbers while playing an exciting game

The original characters of Hurricount — frogs, birds, and hedgehogs — stay in the game. Although now they scatter all over a card in most peculiar ways — you cannot count them right away.

The condition cards also got more interesting — the inequalities became more complex, and double conditions appeared.

Chameleon — the new character in the game — camouflages to seem to look like the rest and to notice which one must be very attentive!

Numberloor (Counting over the Tens barrier)

Flying on a hot air balloon with a parrot. Up and Down to cross the tens barrier

Each resident occupies his own floor and uses a big hot air balloon instead of the elevator. The players will use this balloon to move from floor to floor in the course of the game.

In the course of an exciting journey, the players learn to add and subtract in their heads and master addition and subtraction in tens.

Playing with younger children (4 and up), you can simplify the game by using only the Floor cards. In this version of the game, the players memorize ascending and descending order of numbers. To make the game harder, add the Balloon cards that move 1, 2, or 3 floors as well as a number of special cards to make the game more exciting: this version is for players aged 6 and older.

The extended version of the game includes more challenging Balloon cards and Night cards, which can be played at any moment of the game. This version is very dynamic and exciting.

Frui10 (Sum to Ten)

Grab ten bananas or other fruits! Learn how to sum exactly 10

Put the deck of round cards face-up in the middle of the table – this is a storehouse with colorful pears, bananas, pineapples, and strawberries.

The players turn into sneaky raccoons and hedgehogs whose objective is to steal from the storehouse as many pieces of fruit as possible.

While selecting fruit on the basis of their type or color, you need to find a number on your card and a number on the storehouse card which makes a total of exactly 10 (there’s room for 10 items in the bag).

Trafficars (1 to 50, Compare Two Digit Numbers)

Visualize the concepts of “intervals” and “difference”, and compare two-digit numbers

Even children who only know numbers from 1 to 10 can play Trafficars. Rules for beginners allow for the gradual introduction of two-digit numbers. The more challenging the game becomes, the more interest it provokes and the more skills the players gain. Trafficars activate logical and strategic thinking, along with the ability to assess situations several moves ahead and to predict the opponents’ actions. This makes it interesting to older children and adults.

The game set includes cards with pictures of cars, every single one of them different. The number of dots on the cards corresponds to the number, which is also printed on them. This little trick helps children deal with some complications: the dots indicate the difference between such numbers as 13 and 31. Differentiating between numbers like that can be difficult for younger children who are still learning to count.

The dots also show that the number consisting of ‘two’ and ‘one’ – 21 is greater than 19, which consists of ‘one’ and ‘nine’.

Apart from the regular cars, special transport like ambulances, police cars, tow trucks, and trailers can pop up on the road. Each of them has its own role in the game, but all of them add fun and suspense.

Multimany (Multiplication 1 to 5)

Children learn to multiply numbers from 1 to 5

The basic part of the multiplication table fits in your pocket

The game is based on a unique method that helps children see multiplication with their own eyes, and even hold it in their hands, and we don’t have to tell you how important that is when your child is just starting out in arithmetic.

The game set includes cards with pictures of houses, whose windows are transparent – that’s the trick! Place a card with ‘two’ windows on top of another card with ‘three’ windows and get a house with ‘six’ windows: 2x3=6.

Another version of the game develops the children’s strategic vision and ability to think several moves ahead. The playing field is a “storehouse” with 25 house cards (laid out as a 5 x 5 grid). Each player receives three task cards – these are the results they should compute through “multiplying windows.” The goal of the game is to perform as many tasks as possible, moving the game token throughout the playing field and taking the cards from the storehouse to the “construction zone,” where multiplication takes place.

Multibloom (Multiplication 1 to 9)

Multibloom helps kids with mastering the multiplication

Busy bees! Playing this game, the children will find themselves very busy with all kinds of fun activities: planting flowers on flowerbeds, uprooting them if necessary, and arranging surprises (both pleasant and not) for their opponents. However, the players’ principal objective is to properly fulfill the orders by growing the exact number of flowers requested by their customers.

In the course of the game, children learn in practice that to fulfill an order of 18 flowers, they should have grown 3 flowerbeds with 6 flowers each. Such visual examples will stick in their mind for a long time.

Plant, multiply, and sell!

The goal of the game is to earn as many coins as you can. The number of coins is indicated on the customer card – some give you more, some give you less. That’s just life. 

Splittissimo (Fraction, Division, and Breaks)

Clients love to order pizza by slices. Learning fractions is a part of the whole

By playing this game you'll become such an expert in fractions that you'll be second to none.

The game set is designed in a charming Italian style. It includes both rectangular cards with orders and fascinating round cards. The latter are trays with different numbers of pizza slices. Apart from cheese and olives, pizzas include tomatoes, mushrooms, and peppers in various combinations; each one can have two additional ingredients.

You can choose one of the playing field pizzas and assemble it using several of your own cards. To add excitement to the game, use a number of special cards, which allow you to slow down your opponents’ work and accelerate your own pace using “last minute” orders.

In other words, the players should make whole pizzas from the slices they have, which helps them reinforce the addition of fractions once again

Zoolphabet (Learn Letters, Spelling)

Learn and memorize letters, spelling the names of animals

If your child is already studying English, this game will become an excellent supplement to the language practice. Playing Zoolphabet, children name and memorize letters as well as practice spelling new words correctly. Both the children and adults adore the cute little animals, so the cards motivate the players to learn English letters and work on their pronunciation.

The game method is quite simple: spelling the names of animals with the letters scattered on the table, players memorize their visual images, and learn their names as well. You don’t really need to know English to start playing Zoolphabet.

There are several versions of rules for players with different levels of language proficiency. 

Match and Catch (Fast Reading)

The fast way to learn to read in English

Knowing letters is not enough to read! By playing Match and Catch, the kids will learn to put letters into words in a fun and easy way: whoever reads the fastest, gets the most tokens. The game is designed in such a way that the process automatically induces children to read and do it faster and faster.

The game set contains 96 tokens. On one side of the token are three brightly-colored pictures, on the other — a word. The tokens are color-coded into two play sets: the words in the blue one are shorter than in the red one. There are three sets of rules. In the simplest one, there’s no need to read as the players race each other to find identical pictures, practicing attentiveness and concentration. The second set of rules requires the players to read the word and search the playing area to find the token with a corresponding picture.

The hardest way to play is when the playing area is covered with tokens with words written on them, and the players have to snatch the right tokens, which correspond to their own picture cards.

Catowl (Concentration, Reflexes)

Practice arithmetic and logic - as well as improve their concentration and reflexes

Cats and owls are witches’ favorite animals. The poor things are subjected to magic experiments so often that sometimes it’s difficult to say whether it’s a cat or an owl. Well, let’s figure out who is who!

kids learn to determine quantities in a split second, without the need for a recount. The game process exercises attentiveness, concentration, and speedy response, and also trains memory. The box contains three games in one, allowing players to practice different skills.

The game has several levels of difficulty for kids of different ages. Cards, dice, and totems are bright and unusual, and the kids love them!

Chronoflight (Time)

Develop your kids' correct perception and understanding of time

Perception of time is a difficult skill that children may need a few months to fully develop.

• What is half an hour?
• Is five minutes a lot?
• Why is an hour split into 60 minutes?

All of these questions require understanding and the habit of correlating clock-hand movements with the flow of day and night.

This game will help children determine the time on the clock face, figure out the relation between hours and minutes, and learn the notions of time and duration of activities

Algoracing (3D Race Game, Logic, Algorithms, Programming)

A multilevel 3D board game to learn the basics of Algorithms and Programming

Algoracing is an unusual and transformable 3D-race game. You can change the location of hill blocks whichever way you want — the game can have hundreds of different game fields!

The complexity of the game is also easy to change, as the set includes the components for two versions.

Automated rovers investigate the surface of uncharted planets. They are searching for life samples!

To operate the rovers, the players have to create very precise algorithms. Delivering life samples to the lab won’t be easy, because the samples can be carried off by competitors!

Gophers’ Maze (Strategy, Counting, Sum)

Strategy game with a unique flipping gameboard

No one ever had such a game board! A unique multilayer race game. The players gather provisions and move from one field to another through special secret passages. The game is unbelievably fascinating and surprising.

Gophers are awake after a long winter sleep, and they are hungry! It’s time to go in search of provisions stored in long and winding lairs. The labyrinths are long, and there are six levels with hidden creepholes, but the gophers forgot where they stored the grains and other food. Only hardcore weasels will be able to find the supplies.

In the course of the game, the gophers strive to pick nuts, strawberries, and seeds as many as possible. They crawl around inside their holes and sometimes get into secret passages where they find new tunnels!

Quackage (Geometry, Spatial Thinking)

Great way to develop your kid's spatial thinking and creativity

Packing your luggage is never an easy task! In this educational game, kids try to 'pack' as many items as possible into 'suitcases' of various shapes. With a few variants of game rules, you can adjust the difficulty to suit your kid's age. 

This beautiful and exciting board game asks the children to arrange different objects inside the suitcases so as to effectively utilize their space and accommodate as much as possible.

This activity helps to actively develop spatial thinking. Among the common “tourist” stuff, the kids find some extraordinary objects such as a cat, a birch-tree log, or a magician’s hat :)

This makes the process of packing both useful and fun!