Games & Toys

It's kind of ironic that fun stuff is often more than pure entertainment. Playing catch is good exercise. Movies can help us understand the world a little better. People like doing what they like to do, and that's why those things are often the best paths to maturity and growth.

Now comes the boring didactic essay about how good games are for us. Okay, maybe not. But don't think there's no benefit to playing games just because that isn't the reason most of us play them. Games help us learn to better interact with others, think strategically and logically, plan our future, and build our wrist muscles through repeated dice-rolling.

At the end of the day, though, games are just super fun. (Yes, super fun—my chess set is a super chess set and runs around in a cape when he's not being played.)

We could get all sentimental here and talk about how playing games lets us be with the people we love, but we won't. At least, not a lot. (Of course, sometimes relationships are jeopardized by playing games, as when dad won't sell mom his Monopoly properties.) Just this: would you rather remember sitting beside your siblings watching TV, or playing Dutch Blitz with them at the kitchen table?

In the end, this: Games get kids unglued from the Cartoon Network. Games require a measure of thought. Games are fun. If these aren't good reasons to play games, the employees and owners of this store are operating under a severe misunderstanding of reality. In other words, we really like games around here and (though we feel no defense is necessary) believe playing them is actually a beneficial activity despite the super fun exterior.

We try to stock a wide variety—card games, strategy games, skill-based games, children's games, classic games. We're working on uploading rules and instructions, artwork, reviews, and samples of what we offer. This is the youngest section of our store, so please be patient during this process, and don't call us names if we don't have enough information on a particular product. That makes us sad, especially Caleb, who's really pretty sensitive despite his tough-as-nails action hero exterior.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he's a husband and father who loves church, good food, and weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Read more of his reviews here.
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ARTributes: Describe & Draw - game
for 1st-6th grade
in Games & Toys (Location: FUN-GAME)
$18.00 (1 in stock)
Band-in-a-Box
from Melissa & Doug Toys
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Games & Toys (Location: FUN-GAME)
Book of Artrageous Projects
from Klutz
in Art & Drawing Reference (Location: ELE-ARTREF)
$15.00 (1 in stock)
Butterfly Bliss Floor Puzzle
from Melissa & Doug Toys
for Preschool-3rd grade
in Games & Toys (Location: FUN-GAME)
Double-Six Dominoes
for Kindergarten-6th grade
in Counting & Place Value (Location: MATM-COUN)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Dutch Blitz - Set
from Dutch Blitz
for 2nd-Adult
in Games & Toys (Location: FUN-GAME)
Dutch Blitz Blue Expansion Pack
from Dutch Blitz
for 2nd-Adult
in Games & Toys (Location: FUN-GAME)
$12.99
Dutch Blitz Card Game
by Dutch Blitz
from Dutch Blitz
for 2nd-Adult
in Games & Toys (Location: FUN-GAME)
$12.99
Dutch Blitz Purple Expansion Pack
from Dutch Blitz
for 2nd-Adult
in Games & Toys (Location: FUN-GAME)
$12.99
FischerTechnik Advanced Universal 4
for 2nd-Adult
in Games & Toys (Location: FUN-GAME)
$50.00 (1 in stock)
Guess Who? game
from Hasbro
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Games & Toys (Location: FUN-GAME)
Hot Peas & Barley-O - Book & CD
by Susan Brumfield
from Hal Leonard Corp
for 1st-6th grade
in Europe (Location: HISMC-EUR)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Kate Greenaway's Book of Games
by Kate Greenaway
from Viking Press
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Game Books (Location: LOG-GAME)
Lego Gear Bots
from Klutz
for 2nd-6th grade
in LEGO Sets (Location: SCIREF-HOW)
$24.99
My First Carcassonne
by Klaus-Jurgen Wrede
from Z-Man Games
Family/Strategy game for Preschool-3rd grade
in Games & Toys (Location: FUN-GAME)
Pound & Roll Tower
from Melissa & Doug Toys
for 1st-4th grade
in Games & Toys (Location: FUN-GAME)
Rory's Story Cubes - Clues
from Gamewright Games
Adicting game for agaes 6 and up
in Games & Toys (Location: FUN-GAME)
$3.99
Snap It Up! Card Games—Math: Addition & Subtraction
from Learning Resources
for 1st-3rd grade
in Addition (Location: MATR-AR1AD)
$10.99 $6.50 (1 in stock)
Teaching Ancient History with Games
by John De Gree
from Classical Historian
for Preschool-6th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$7.50
Teaching Medieval History with Games
by John De Gree
from Classical Historian
for Preschool-6th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$7.50
Teaching the Constitution with Games
by John De Gree
from Classical Historian
for Preschool-6th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$7.50
Treehouse Town - Parts of Speech Game
Level 2
from The Good and the Beautiful
for 1st-2nd grade
in GATB Language Arts & Reading (Location: CUR-GABELA)