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GAMES ON WHEELS 2014
APPLES TO APPLES: JUNIOR
With this Junior version of the popular card and party game, kids will have hilarious, fast-paced fun while also building their vocabulary and
thinking skills! Great for ages 12 and older!
Age: 9+ Players: 4-10 Play Time: 30 min
10 DAYS IN THE USA Start Your Engines!
Another destination in the 10-Days Travel Series. You have 10 Days
in the USA – Travel the country by jet, car, and on foot. Plan your
trip from start to finish using destination and transportation tiles.
With a little luck and clever planning, you just might outwit your
fellow travelers.
The first traveler to make connections for their 10 day journey wins
the game.
Age: 8 + Players: 2-4
Play Time: 20-30 minutes
APPLETTERS
Appletters™ is the domino game where you don't connect the dots, you connect the letters! The apple shaped pouch with a soft, zip-closed top includes 110 tiles with red capital letters that may be used to play three different games:
Players alternately add tiles to the first or last letter of a word in the middle of the table creating a continuous snake of new words..
Age: 5+ Players: 2-6 Play Time: 20 min
APPLES TO APPLES: PARTY BOX It's the game of hilarious comparisons, ready for party play! In each round, a new judge draws a Description Card. You've got to decide which card in your hand matches the Description in play, and hope the judge thinks your card is the best. And with so many cards in this version, it'll never be the same game twice!
Age: 12+ Players: 4-10 Play Time: 30 min
BANANAGRAMS
“The anagram game that will drive you bananas!”
Kids and adults go bananas for Bananagrams, the anagram game that drives you bananas! You'll have a bunch of fun as you make crossword grids in a race to the finish! And with everything you need to play included in the banana, it's go-anywhere fun for everyone!
Age: 7+ Players: 2-8 Play Time: 15 min
BIG BOGGLE
Big Boggle is a timed word game where players attempt to find as
many connected words as possible from the face up letters resting
in a 25 cube grid. When the timer runs out, players compare their
list of words and remove any shared words. Points are then
awarded for remaining words, depending on how many letters are
in the word.
Age: 8+
Players: 2-8
Play Time: 10 min
BRAINBOX: THE USA Meet the BrainBox where everyone shows what they can remember Turn over a card, turn over the timer, then memorize the card. Can you answer a question about the card after only 15 seconds of looking at it? If you can, you win! - Excellent memory building and subject recognition game for young children - Great for travel, at home and at school play
Age 8+ Players: 2 or + Play Time: 10 minutes
BUZZWORD Bzzzz! Bzz! What's the Buzzword? Let's say the Buzzword is "ball." You and your teammates have 45 seconds to solve 10 clues, and all the answers contain the word "ball." Here you go…have a "ball"!
Age: 10 + Players: 4 or more Play Time: 30 min
CATCHPHRASE ELECTRONIC An updated version of the original and ever-popular CATCHPHRASE, takes all the fun of the classic game and updates it with 10,000 words and phrases, timer and scoring device in an all-inclusive, easy-to-carry electronic unit. This fast-paced game of words and phrases lets players rattle off as many clues as they can until somebody on their team yells out the answer. Players keep passing (or tossing!) the game unit as they talk and try not to get caught holding it when the buzzer sounds. This fast-paced game is perfect party entertainment.
Age: 13+ Players: 4 or more (2 teams) Play Time: 20 min
CLASSIC CATCHPRHASE
Classic CATCHPHRASE game challenges you to guess words and phrases! Team up and start the timer! Keep track of the score with the game unit. Press the Next button for the next word or
phrase. Word and scores of each team appear in the display area! Choose from 5 categories: Fun & Games, Entertainment,
Everyday Life, The World and Variety.
Age: 8+ Players: 4 or more Play Time: 15 min
FUNGLISH Express it and guess it with piles of tiles! Quickly find and play tiles on the easel to get players to guess as many words on a card as you can. Score points for successfully giving clues and for correctly guessing words. To win, have the most points after three rounds of play. Adult assembly required.
Age: 12+ Players: 3 or more Play Time: 60 min
LAST WORD Last Word is the uproarious race to have the final say! This party game has sold over 1,000,000 copies and is perfect for everyone ages 14 and up. Each round, blurt out answers while racing a timer and the other players. For example, Subject: “Animals”, Letter: “L”. Players yell out… Lion! Lemur! Leech! Leopard! The player with the Last Word before the timer sounds advances toward Finish. Beware – the timer is cleverly programmed to go off at random intervals.
Age: 14+ Players: 2-8 Play Time: 30 min
MY WORD!
My Word!® is the first word game that plays like a party
game! Quickly search for words while single and double
letter cards are dealt on to the table. The first player to call
out a word using at least three cards wins those cards.
Fast and fun, My Word! appeals to fans of word games and
party games alike!
Age: 7+ Players: 2-6
Play Time: 10 to 30 Minutes
PAIRS IN PEARS
Complete with capital letter tiles featuring various designs (dots, lines, blank and solid), this game comes packaged in a zip-open, pear-shaped pouch with a hanging rope (stem) at the top. It is designed to help kids work on cognitive skills and memory, as well as the order of the alphabet, vocabulary and rhyming as they practice forming words.
Age: 6+ Players: 2-8 Play Time: 20 min
QUIDDLER QUIDDLER, The SHORT Word Game, is a perfect word game for all generations. Players must combine their entire hand into one or more words trying to use the highest point value letters. QUIDDLER challenges you to do this first with three cards (round one), then with four, on up to ten cards in the last round. There are two bonuses, one for the longest word and one for the most words. It’s easy to learn and you can use a dictionary when it is not your turn.
Age: 1-8 Players: 8+ Play Time: 20-30 min
RORY’S STORY CUBES: CLASSIC, ACTIONS AND VOYAGE
Rory's Story Cubes challenges you to Let Your Imagination Roll Wild by Gamewright! This Rory's Story Cubes Complete Game Set reinforces artistic expression and more!
Rory's Story Cubes is a pocket-sized creative story generator, providing hours of imaginative play for all ages. With Rory's Story Cubes, anyone can become a great
storyteller and there are no wrong answers. Simply roll the cubes and let the pictures spark your imagination!
Age: 8+
Players: 1 or more Play time: 15 min
SAY ANYTHING
Say Anything is the hilarious “get to know you” party game about what you and your friends think. “What’s the worst thing to say to a cop after being pulled over?” Be creative. Be outrageous. Be opinionated. This is your chance to say anything!
How to Play
You read a question.
Everyone else writes an answer.
Secretly choose your favorite answer. Then everyone else tries to guess which one you picked!
Ages: 13+ Players: 3-8 Play Time: 30 min
SCRABBLE
Play it the same, or shake up your game!
Whether you love your SCRABBLE game straight up or
have a more adventurous streak, this option-packed
game is for you! Play Power Tiles to spice up your
strategy and sweeten your score, Team up with a
partner to trade tiles and share scores. Or mix and
match options for a game that's totally your own!
Age: 8+
Players: 2-4
Play Time: 50 min
SCRABBLE ELECTRONIC CATCHPHRASE
Think fast! The SCRABBLE Electronic CATCHPHRASE game challenges you to come up with words and then pass the game fast so you don’t get caught
holding the bag! Give your teammates clues so they can guess the word or phrase on the game unit’s screen. But no rhyming, first letters or parts of the word, or the other team gets a point! Once your team has guessed it, pass the unit fast to the other team. When the buzzer goes off, whoever
has the unit loses a point to the other side, so move fast! When your team gets to 7 points, you win!
Age: 13+ Players: 4 or more (2 teams) Play Time: 20 min
SUPER BIG BOGGLE
Like the original Boggle, the cubes are shaken in their
container with its lid on. The cubes are settled into a grid.
The lid is removed and the timer is started. Players race
to find words within the grid and write them down. The
letters of each word must be adjacent, either diagonally
or orthogonally. When time has expired, players compare
words and score for each original word based on its
length.
Super Big Boggle contains thirty six cubes in a six-by-six grid. Some of the cubes contain blanks which
are a block and must be worked around. The timer is four minutes long instead of three.
Age: 8+
Players: 2-20
Play Time: 60 min
THE SCRAMBLED STATES OF AMERICA Whoever said that learning about U.S. geography had to be boring must not have read The Scrambled States of America. Quick! Find a state that ends with the letter A. Now find one that borders Tennessee. Have fun learning about the United States in this madcap game of observation and quick reflexes. Collect cards by matching states to a Scramble card. Whoever scrambles to match and collect the most state cards wins.
Age: 8+ Players: 2-4 Playing Time: 20 min
WHAT’S YOURS LIKE? Be clever, be witty or be outrageous when describing your swimsuit, neighbor, closet, hair or whatever Guess Word is picked. But, best of all, be creative so you don't reveal the word to the player in the Hot Seat. Get ready for some side-splitting laughs as players answer What's Yours Like?
Age: 12+ Players: 4 or more Play Time: 40 min
WITS AND WAGERS
Wits & Wagers is the most award-winning party game in history. Do you know the average number of pizza slices eaten by Americans each day? Of course not! That’s the fun. No one knows the answers, but everyone can take a guess. The felt betting mat and different payout odds will make you feel like a Vegas high roller. Get lucky and you’ll cheer like you hit the jackpot!
Ages: 10+ Players: 4-unlimited Play Time: 30 min