Games

The pixel is wild! Kikkerland's Pixel Playing Cards make a funky optical illusion when you tilt them. The effect will either add some visual interest to your poker game, or make you feel like you're gonna puke all over...

It's a new kind of War. A Floor War pitting vampires against unicorns in a new throwing card game from Yumfactory. The party-ready box set almost takes a jab at typical fantasy-themed board and card games, with its snooty...

Wayne Manor has been "jokerized" and "LEGO-ized" in this 3,435-piece Joker Manor set. New for January 2018, LEGO has added Disco Batman, Disco The Joker, Disco Batgirl, and Disco Robin minifigures to the set, joining...

Learn where your sushi comes from with this 3D Tuna Dissection Puzzle. The 33-piece anatomy kit is mostly a fun and kitschy novelty gift for lovers of the maguro, but as an accurate tuna replica, it might also imprint...

No, cynics, it's not called Jenga Ocean because it looks like a marine oil spill. In fact, Bureo makes their jet black edition of the iconic toppling tower game from 100% recycled fishing nets as part of their overarching...

What happens after the last gift is unwrapped? Family Face-Off with Sport Squad's tabletop electric air hockey table! For those who can't swing an EZ Ice backyard hockey rink this year, the Sport Squad HX40 might be the...

In Tokaido, board game designer Antoine Bauza takes his award-winning artwork skills to Japan's East Sea Road. Two to five travelers will journey along the undulating road in hopes of discovery its treasures and natural...

Make Jon Snow blush with Cards Against The Iron Throne, a 279-card expansion pack for Cards Against Humanity. It's an unofficial version for Game of Thrones fans, filled entirely with references from the books and TV...

Shocktato is a party game from the same people who made Lightning Reaction Reloaded, which is my all-time favorite party game to play with people who are slower than I am. As you've probably guessed, their new combination...

The LightBox, in a new twist on physical brainteasers and cliched expressions, is designed such that seeing the light means you have not solved the puzzle...

The School of Hard Blocks is a set of 12 alphabet blocks modeled after the traditional wood children's blocks, but made of concrete. And made for adults who need to learn, ponder, or build up their own ABCs. Adultery...

This desktop-sized Wooden Cat Pile game is the only way I'd let another 6 cats in my house. The only! Do you hear that, She-Ra: Princess of Power? And agreeing even to that much is very generous of me. I can already see...

Anki OVERDRIVE goes Fast & Furious with its Toretto-tinted edition, set to start shipping later this month. If you're not familiar with the Anki gaming family, meet virtual REAL-ality. A simple car racing game in fundamental...

Get your tailgating season started as frikkin' early as NFL preseason with the QB54, an outdoor football game built around a pair of packable lawn chairs...

"Sure, Squirt, we can read Goodnight Moon. Just as soon as you get these wooden pegs aligned and balanced perfectly on this rocking moon disc! No, not just a couple - all of them! If you're going to be a surgeon and fund...

I wonder if the Contropiede Foosball Table's removal of color and opacity will make it easier or harder to keep my eye on the ball. (So I don't screw the game up for all the other kids who are trying to develop their...

And the PuttSkee skee ball-golf hybrid even folds up into an oversized luggage / encyclopedia salesman-style rolling crate so you can hold tournaments next to the keg on Fridays at the office, turn it into a drinking...

Turner's Cube is a cube...cubed. It's 1.57"-cubed volume contains a smaller cube nested inside, and then an even smaller cube nested inside that. In addition to a creating some neat desktop optics, the Turner's Cube also...

Tetris and Jenga gave me the most heart-pounding action I ever experienced as a kid. Oh, and Perfection, but one time of one those pieces flew out and hit me in the eye so my mama made me stop playing it. Just thinking...

Who would claim you can "get smarter while swearing at your friends?" F**kin' Australia, mates. F**k. The Game is an Aussie issue, and a mind trip of cards and colors and good ol' cussin' for us all. It's a spirited party...

Now here's a new spin on smart lighting. Lasermad says their stellar Nixie Chessboard is the first and only Nixie tube-powered chessboard in the whole world, and I believe it. Who has the creativity to even come up with...

The Atari Flashback portable console is indeed here to console. The handheld 2600 will give a there, there pat on the back to everyone who didn't get an NES Classic before Nintendo announced they're discontinuing them...

I like how Hanayama Puzzles says its tiny new CAKE Cast Metal Puzzle is recommended for ages 12 to 105 years, but "A few bright children between 8 to 11 years" might also be able to solve it. In other words, parents out...

Flingons look like miniature boomerangs, but the twist here is that when you throw them they don't come back. They stick with great projectile prowess to any metal surface you toss them at, or to one another...