Games & Puzzles Winning Solutions Makes Giant Scrabble
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inning Solutions introduces Giant Scrabble, made under license from Hasbro. The Giant Scrabble game features an oversized, rotating wooden game board, with all pieces 50 percent larger than Hasbro’s classic version. The tiles and rack are also made with wood and the raised grid keeps letters in place during play. A tile pouch and score pad are also included.
Pressman Toy Says CatRatBatSplat
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ressman Toy will develop a line of games based on the new preschool series Tinga Tinga Tales. Tinga Tinga Tales Swinging Monkey Race Game allows players to put their strategy skills to the test as they try to swing their monkey mover onto as many trees as they can. In the Tinga Tinga Tales Tell Me a Story Memory Game, kids get a chance to creatively tell their own story of why an object or animal is placed where it is within the game board, and then apply their memory skills to reveal it at the end. Additional games for Tinga Tinga Tales, such as dominoes, a Go Fish card game, a Pop ’n Race game, and a Make a Match game, will also be released. Another new license for Pressman is Power Rangers Samurai, the Nickelodeon and Nicktoons series. In the Power Rangers Samurai Samuraizer Switch Game, players move around the board collecting Zord tokens. When they reach a gap sensor, a challenge to a Nighlok is made and then the battle takes place. Power Rangers Samurai Make a Match and Pop ’n Race games will also be released. CatRatBatSplat is a frenzied dice game in which everyone is a player on every turn. The oversized dice feature images of a cat, a bat, a rat, and a splat, and the object of the game is to find the pattern from the dice on a game card and shout it out. No Speed Limit is a fast-paced domino game that starts with one tile in the middle of the play area. At the same time, all players begin matching their tiles to tiles that are in play, in an effort to get rid of them all. The Zombie, The Princess, and The Kid Next Door is a new threein-a-row game in which each player receives three tiles that depict a character, a shape, and a color. To win tokens, players must get three of the same tiles in a row. In Bass Ackwards, the right answers are wrong, and the game starts at the finish line. After questions are read, players must do their best to guess one of the two wrong answers out of the three given. It’s a Chicken is a child’s first drawing game. Roll to see what image you have to draw, then set the chicken timer and start. The pre-printed shape sheets help you get started. The sooner a player guesses what you’ve drawn, the further you’ll both move on the board.
154 • THE TOY BOOK
FEBRUARY 2012