Puzzles & Games
Disruptus asks players to look at objects and ideas and use different approaches––as determined by the roll of the die––to innovate. Disruptus draws inspiration from the very important practice of "disruptive thinking," one of the msot powerful ways to innovate. Disruptive thinking is looking at an object or idea and coming up with an entirely different way to achieve the same end.
When playing Disruptus, players will come up with ideas that may create, transform, improve, or disrupt. The game can be played as competitive or non-competitive.
Once considered a vital part of Chinese aristocratic culture, the game of GO is not only fun but benefits players by teaching them to practice patience, discipline, and open-mindedness.
Last Word Standing pits 2 to 6 players against each other in a fast-paced war of the words! Players use letter cards to spell high-value words that beat out the comptetition to the highest score––or else lose half their own points in the fray! With action cards to turn the tables, swap cards, steal letters, and more, whether you're a quick speller or a long-term strategizer, in the end, it's not about who's the wordiest, but just who has the last word standing!
Roll out the fun at home, camp or on the road with this travel-friendly backgammon game. Canvas playing board features a colorful Pendleton pattern, and rolls up for easy toting. Includes 30 silkscreened wooden game pieces, 5 wooden dice and instructions, plus a vegan leather bag to store them all.
- Playing board is 10" x 14" unrolled; 10" x 2" rolled
- Canvas rolled
- Imported
No wires. No screens. No batteries. Just pick a few cards and let them lead you into a story. How you tell it is up to you. Write it, draw it, sing it! Play by yourself or in groups. Perfect for early writers, parents who need some fresh bedtime stories, teachers who want to nurture creativity, and grandparents who want to play with the kids.
- 360 cards = gazillions of stories (includes 20 blanks so you can invent your own prompts)
- Content is appropriate for children and anyone who's a kid at heart
- Comes with a booklet filled with prompts, games, and suggestions
- Light and portable with a vintage design
- Wild cards prompt you to go in all kinds of fun ways
- Cards have rounded edges––easy for small hands to hold, fun to "build" stories
- Made in U.S.A.
May your Storymatic Kids bring you countless hours of fun and inspiration!
- "Such a great choice for improving storytelling skills." –– Forbes
- "These 360 cards can take you in an endless number of directions." –– TIME for Kids
- "Inspire young bards with fun creative-writing prompts. Will your next protagonist be a jump-rope champion or the tooth fairy's silbing? Pick a card and find out!" –– Scholastic
In Storymatic: Synapsis, stories take shape as you talk about character, setting, motivation, memory, and other things. It's a conversational, improvisational way to explore stories.
There is only one rule in Synapsis. Say Yes. Imagination lives on Yes. Yes opens doors. Yes makes stories come to life. Say Yes.
Synapsis has 250 cards:
- 30 Spark cards give you context for your sentence
- 140 Riff cards give you a main word and some riffs on that word
- 30 Connect cards give you senses and comparisons
- 50 Ask cards prompt you to think about the story in lots of different ways
Synapsis is all about expansion, and it comes with some nifty expanding instructions that include a bunch of different ways to play, whether you're by yourself or in a gorup.
Surakarta is an Indonesian strategy game, named after the anceient city of Surakarta in central Java. The game features a unique method of capture not known to exist in any other recorded board game.
