Top 10 Educational Games

Learning can be so much more fun with these great games. The Arts & Minds educational games experts have put together this list of the Top 10 Educational Games. They are terrific for families or in the classroom. They're high on strategy and play excitement - and they're so entertaining you'll forget they're educational, too!

#1 Bananagrams
Oppenheimer Award, Dr. Toy, Parent’s Choice, Family Fun Award
2-8 Players Ages 6 and up, $14.99
Bananagrams is a fast, fun anagram game that requires no pencil, paper or board. Players build skills as they race to complete their own Scrabble-type word layout. This game not only builds spelling and vocabulary skills, but also creativity as players must deconstruct existing words to make letters available for others.. This educational game is also perfect for travel.

#2 Blokus/ Blokus Trigon
4 Players Ages 5 and up, $29.99
Mensa Select, Oppenheimer, ASTRA, Teacher’s Choice, Dr. Toy
Players use square or triangular shaped pieces to control board territory and block other players from doing the same. Winning requires spatial awareness, strategy and creativity.

#3 Castle Logix
1 Player Ages 5 and up, $24.99
Match the puzzle cards to build castles block by block and tower by tower in this 3-D wooden puzzle. With beginner to master skill level puzzles, Castle Logix will stretch player’s logical thinking skills and develop spatial reasoning abilities. It has the look and feel of a classic children’s game, but with the added benefit of an educational basis.

#4  Head Full of Numbers
1 - 10 Players Ages 6 and up, $14.99
From one child to an entire classroom, kids will love the fast-paced Head Full of Numbers. Shake the dice, place them in the tray, set the timer and record as many unique, correct equations as you can. Add, subtract, multiply and divide, or even try longer compound equations.

#5  Rumis
2-4 Players Ages 8 and up, $29.99
Mensa Select, Teacher’s Choice, Creative Child Magazine
Rumis, meaning “stones” is the game of geometric strategy based on Incan architecture. Players must outbuild and outsmart their opponents, strategically placing their stones to prevent opponents from having the most stones visible from above the structure. This abstract strategy game has the added bonus of being inspired by the architecture of an amazing historical culture.

#6  Rush Hour/Railroad Rush Hour/Safari Rush Hour/Rush Hour Jr.
1 Player Logic Games, Ages 8 and up (Ages 6-8 on Jr.), $15.99 - $19.99 each
Classic spatial logic puzzles, players slide blocks of cars, railroad cars or safari animals to get a selected piece out the small opening on the game board. Each version plays slightly differently, but all challenge your sequential-thinking skills.

#7  Kanoodle
1 Player Ages 7 and up, $11.99
Using combinations of colored connected beads, players complete 2-D puzzles and 3-D pyramids. This multi-level game includes over 100 puzzles. It’s portable and perfect for a variety of skill levels.

#8  Obscurity
2 or More Players Ages 8 and up, $19.99
Obscurity is part word search, part vocabulary challenge. Players race to find words in any direction, as long as the letters are touching. The longer and more unusual words are worth more points, and players with the same words lose points.

#9  North Pole Camouflage/Safari Undercover/Air Traffic Control Tower
1 Player Ages 8 and up, $19.99 each
Using snow to camouflage the polar bear and water to conceal the fish, players arrange six transparent puzzle pieces so that the animals are camouflaged in their correct environments. Thaw out your logical reasoning skills to solve these 48 multi-leveled puzzles. Safari Undercover plays much the same way, challenging you to “hide” a variety of jungle animals with shaped pieces. In Air Traffic Control Tower, players must direct airplanes on a busy runway.

#10  Shapes Up
2-4 Players Ages 7 and up, $21.99
A game of strategy and speed! Shapes Up is an exciting, fast-paced strategy game for 2 to 4 players. Players fit shapes together, like a tangram, to cover their boards and form multi-colored squares. Roll the die and choose the piece it shows you. The player whose board is filled first is the winner! Challenging, fast and fun!

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