Looking for some fun summer fun?  Plan a weekly family game night.  Turn off the TV and gather everyone around the table for some game time.  Here are a few to get you started.

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Rat-a-Tat-Cat: Children's card game that helps develop timing and basic mathematical concepts. It teaches strategy, memory building, and addition. Winner of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Best Toy Award; Mensa 1996 Best New Mind Game Award. Card game for two to six players age six and up.

Gobblet: Gobblers Colorful kids' version of the popular new strategy game that's like tic-tac-toe. Game Includes wooden playing board, 12 colorful pieces and illustrated rules. For two players ages five and up.

Quiddler: The SHORT Word Game. The challenge of Quiddler is to arrange your entire hand into words. For one to eight players ages eight to adult.

Word Pirates: Award winning game for ages 6 and up. Each pirate takes a turn rolling letter dice and building a pathway of words. Players also use rock walls to block their enemies' path in an effort to be the first player to build a bridge across shark infested waters and reach the pirate loot.

Cover Your Tracks: Four levels of play, beginner to expert. For ages eight years and up.

Axis & Allies Spring 1942: Control the fate of the world in this incredible game of military strategy, courage and cunning. For ages 12 and up. Choking hazard. Not for children younger than three.
Name Chase"Get a clue and figure out who!" Ages twelve and up.
Pick Two The always-changing, ever-rearranging crossword game. Players draw tiles, building their own personal crosswords as fast as they can. Ages eight and up.

The Scrambled States of America: Players learn the names, capitals, nicknames, shapes and positions of the states through a myriad of visual teasers, language riddles and geography challenges. After playing, you'll see that there's more to the 50 States than meets the eye! Ages eight and up.

Ka-Ching!:  One of the best two-player card games. It is super easy to learn, plays quickly and yet offers endless opportunities for strategic challenge. Emphasizes multiplication as a skill. Ages ten to adult.

Sort It Out: Which animal's brain weighs more - a cat, a giraffe, a baboon, a kangaroo or a cow? In Sort It Out, you'll find out. Great family game, where guessing is half the fun. Ages twelve and up.

Qwirkle Tactile: wooden block game combines the logic and strategy of Set® with the creative multi-maneuver game play of Scrabble®. Ages six and up.

Slam Scrabble:  A high-speed four letter word game. Race against each other to change the existing word and get rid of your cards.  Ages eight and up.

Twisted Fish: A new twist on an old favorite. Players compete to gather the most points possible by collecting as many 'Full Baskets' as they can. A Full Basket is complete set of the same 'Twisted Fish'. The twist comes in the form of 8 special 'Zinger' cards which allow the players to flout the rules, steal cards from other players, prevent other players from fishing, or go again out of order! Ages ten and up.

Ninety-Nine or Bust: Cards can score points, subtract points, change directions or skip turns the object is to avoid going over 99 and busting. Twists, turns, strategy and a little Lady Luck make this a classic game of wits. Ages eight and up.

Yikerz:  A game of magnet mayhem. Place your Yikerz pieces down on the board and try to avoid attracting the other pieces already played. The object is to get rid of all your pieces. If Yikerz collapse together, those pieces are yours to add to your stack. Ages fourteen and up.

The Settlers of Catan:  Award-winning strategy game where players collect resources and use them to build roads, settlements and cities on their way to victory. The board itself is variable, making each game a little different from the next. Ages ten and up.