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NAPPA 2009 Award-Winning Games

By Peggy Brown

As families get back to basics, board and card games are among the best basic entertainment around. Games bring friends and loved ones face-to-face better than TV, movies and video games do – and the price is right, even in tough times. Put game night on the schedule, zap some popcorn and play, because games make you learn and laugh. They can be the glue that pieces family time back together.

Discover Peggy’s ideas for cranking up the fun on family game night!

 Chickyboom

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Best Bang for the Buck

Family Fun

Family Fun

Top Pick

Top Pick

Animal_Lovers

Animal Lovers

Gold Winner

Honors Winner

Preschoolers

Counting Rainbows, Dowling Magnets

Alphabet Squiggle, RandomLine

Chickyboom, Blue Orange Games Top Pickpaw print

Silly Socks, Pressman Toy $$

S’Match, Thinkfun

 

 

Ages 5 & Up

 

Gobblet Gobblers, Blue Orange Games

Sherlock, Playroom Entertainment $$

Ticks Tacks Toes, Educational Insights Top Pick

Battleship, Hasbro

Clever Castle, Thinkfun


Ages 7 & Up

 

Exago, Goliath Games Family Fun

Squiggle Connect, RandomLine Top Pick

Blurt!, Educational Insights

Flapdoodle, Imagination International

Polar Derby™, Gamewright

Too Many Monkeys™, Gamewright paw print

 

Ages 8 & Up - Family Fun

 

Quelf, Imagination International $$

Telestrations,™ USAopoly Top Pick

Funny Business™, Gamewright

Likewise!, Buffalo Games

One Up, Family Games

Triviathon, Jeezle Pete’s LLC

 

 

 

More Winning Toys

For Infants & Toddlers
For Preschoolers
For Ages 5 & Up
For Ages 7 & Up

 

 

NAPPA's Barbara Smith Decker demos some great gift ideas from NAPPA's Parenting Resource winners, plus "Family Fun" and "Best Bang for the Buck" winners from the Children's Products competition.


 

NAPPA helps parents make the best choices for their families.