Lake Forest School District 67

Gifted Games

Name of Game	Picture of Game	Age Level	Description of Game
Abalone		8-Adult	This hot European import is taking over the USA! A sophisticated game of strategy, Abalone takes only a few minutes to learn but a lifetime to master. Place your marbles in sequence to push your opponent’s marbles to the sideline. First player to push six of their opponents marbles to the sideline wins.
Othello		8-Adult	An internationally acclaimed strategy game. Choose to be black or white and strive to get the most discs flipped with your color face up at the end of the game.
Villa Paletti		6 -12 years	A fun-filled game for the entire family, where players use their building and balancing skills to win. Take columns from the lower levels to build more levels above. It takes skill. It takes courage. Mot of all it takes a stead hand.
Da Vinci Challenge Game		9-18 years	This 2005 winner of 11 unprecedented awards, including the MENSA Select and the Oppenheim Platinum award. Take turns placing shapes on the board to form nine different patterns. The more complex the pattern that you make, the more points you score.
Boggle		8 to Adult	The original 3-minute word search game! Shake the lettered cubes, drop them into the grid and start the timer. Then race to see who can list the most words with the highest point value among the random letter assortment in the grid.
Boggle Jr.		3 to 6 years	Boggle Jr. is a delightful first word game for children, helping them to master the alphabet and spell simple words.
Scrabble: Junior Edition		5 to 8 years	Scrabble is fun for younger children as they match picture words with letter tiles. Older children can use the reverse side of the board to form words.
Brain Quest		4 to 8 years	Brain Quest is the curriculum-based educational game that says, “It’s O.K. to be smart” and challenges kids on the stuff they need to know-when they need to know it.
Charades for Kids		5 to Adult	Act out eating corn on the cob! Act out spinning a top! Features 450 charades selected just for kids. Teaches non-verbal communication, an important social skill that helps reduce shyness.
Clue Jr. – Hidden Toys		5 to 8 years	There’s a mystery! Pets love to hide in funny places. And they love to hide kids' toys. It's up to you and the Clue Jr. detectives to find them.
Clue Jr. – Missing Cake		5 to 8 years	Give junior detectives a chance to solve the case with this specially designed game classic Whodunit for ages five to eight! Find the clues to find out who stole the cake and ate it, too!
Cool Cash Bingo		7 – 10 years	Students create their own game card and play at various levels of challenge while learning to add coin values and make change.
Cranium Cadoo		7 to Adult	Cranium Cadoo is the outrageously fun game designed to get kids thinking, creating, giggling and grinning as they try to get four in a row to win. And the experts agree: Cranium Cadoo is the recipient of the Platinum "Best Toy Award."
Credit - Ability		5 to Adult	Just say "Charge It!" with one of your credit cards. But keep enough cash on hand. There will always be those unexpected day-to-day expenses. Cubits
Decision Stock Market		10 – 13 years	Decisions is a money management game played in the context of the stock market. Players attempt to increase their wealth through strategic decision making in buying and selling stocks. Players practice communication skills because each move requires players to explain how they arrive at their answers. The player with the highest net worth at the end of the game is the winner.
Auntie Pasta Fraction		6-8 years	Auntie Pasta has been busy making pizzas. Collect different size slices to fill up your pizza pans. A great way to reinforce fractions!
Bingo Addition Fraction		6 & Up	Students use this game to practice simple addition of fractions.
Brain Quest Turbo Twist		6-Adult	After you select a mode of play, multiple-choice questions appear on the screen. Then, twist a dial on the end to select an answer and pound a button to enter it. Turbo Twist Brain Quest features four different game modes and an option to add music.
Brain Strain		10-Adult	Brain Strain is a lateral thinking game that combines mind-bending lateral puzzles with the tactics of a classic board game. Each of the colorful, intriguingly designed questions will make you think in a refreshingly illogical way, as you attempt to outwit your opponents without straining your brain.
Buy It Right Shopping Game		6-9 years	Teaches students the importance of money recognition, adding, and making correct change through interactive game play. They can set prices, buy and sell items, and learn the value of money as they move throughout the game board.
Cubits		8 & Up	To play, select a puzzle pattern from the challenge booklet. Then combine Cubits 16 pieces to match the puzzle pattern. Over 100 patterns are included. Puzzle challenges range from beginner, using 3 to 4 pieces, to expert, using all 16 pieces.
Dino Math Tracks		6-9 years	Reinforce counting, place value, addition, and subtraction skills. Roll a 4-digit number and then move dinosaur species the appropriate ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands places. Math problem-solving cards for various levels of play add to the challenge and fun.
Do You Sudoku?		6-9 years	Now kids can play Sudoku, too! With cute animal images instead of numbers, kids love to puzzle out where to place their tiles.
Equilibrio		6-12 years	Construct the 60 models in the enclosed book. A gradual increase in difficulty and complexity insures that everyone finds an exciting challenge within the book. Combines imagination, dexterity and perseverance.
Fraction Advanced Zone Bingo		8-Adult	Unique puzzle format allows players to create their own bingo cards and select from two levels of challenge. The Advanced Fraction Zone Game goes to twelfths, with Level 1 featuring identification of fractions using circles, squares, rectangles and parts of a set. Level 2 focuses on equivalencies and renaming fractions in lowest terms.
Fun with Language Arts		8-12 years	Fun with Language Arts Game reinforces capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and usage skills. Which word is misspelled? What's missing? Which word is correct?
Fun with Shape Shuffle		8-12 years	Create puzzles and designs from geometric shapes. The game offers many ways of learning about shapes, patterns, fractions, sizes and colors. Children will strengthen their problem solving, fine motor and creativity skills as they progress through the varying levels of difficulty found on the design cards.
Great States		7 & Up	This game tests your knowledge of state capitols, locations and landmarks. This fun and educational challenge is a great learn-as-you-play game of history and geography.
Kid's Twenty Questions		7-12 years	Players try to guess identity of a popular person, place, thing, or year. During each round, one player acts as the clue giver while the other players try to solve the secret identity. Each clue read reveals more about the secret identity. The fewer clues you need Ð the farther you advance.
Kids On Stage		6 & Up	Kids on Stage makes the game of "let's pretent" come alive. Players act out animals, objects and actions, while the "audience" guesses. This game encourages creativity and communication skills while having fun.
Knock-Out		8 & Up	In Knock-Out, players must use their critical, analytical, and divergent thinking skills with addition and subtraction.
Magic Island Search		8-10 Years	Collect six different key cards to open the treasure chest. An inventive game which assesses progress in measurement. Game cards include mass/weight, length, and capacity questions in both customary and metric measurement. Four levels of difficulty.
Mancala		6 & Up	A game of strategy requiring skill and foresight. Two players compete against each other trying to accumulate s many stones as possible before one of the players clears his side of all its stones.
Math Attack Game		7 & Up	Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and rounding skills while playing this fast-paced, exciting racing game. Strategically combine dice to your advantage to send your opponent back or send you toward the finish.
Math Noodlers		9-11 Years	Making their way around the board, students solve math problems in fun and creative ways. As they land on different colors, students answer problems by choosing a Write It, Draw It, Show It, or Choose It card.
Math Shark Electronic Game		6-12 Years	Math Shark offers eight different skill levels and seven skill groupings: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, fractions and percentages. After every question a red or green flashing light and a corresponding beep let you know whether or not you answered correctly. If you get one wrong, the right answer flashes, and the question keeps appearing, along with any others answered incorrectly, until you get it right.
Measure Up Real World		8-10 Years	This game builds two skills in measurement: ordering of amounts from the least to the greatest and solving word problems. Each skill is dealt with at two levels of difficulty. The measurements of time, plus metric, and customary units of linear, mass/weight, and volume are practiced.
Muggins!		8 & Up	In Muggins, use skill to outwit your opponents by adding, subtracting, multiplying, and/or dividing three numbers together.
Multifactor		8 & Up	Using the multiplication table as your gameboard, this game offers challenging practice with basic multiplication facts, factoring, and finding prime factors at two levels of play. Offensive and defensive strategies add interest and intrigue. The playing field is divided into four zones distinguished by color and points scored. The winner is the player with the highest number of points.
Multiplication Tri-Ominos		8 & Up	The like properties on the triangular shapes can be linked to form a chain, a random pattern, or to complete a 24-piece hexagon. These shapes can be used as an activity for one child working alone or as with other players.
Name That Country		8 & Up	Name That Country is an exciting geography game that takes you around the world. Learn about continents, countries, and capitals as you spin your way around the globe. The game contains entertaining, informative postcards from countries around the world.
Name That State		8 & Up	Name That State takes students around the U.S.A. They learn about states, landmarks, and capitals as they spin their way around the country. The game contains entertaining, informative postcards from all 50 states. Each postcard gives you information about a state.
Number Zones		7- 12 Years	Designed to help teach students about probability. Key concepts include range, bell curve, and median. Number Zones is played in four rounds, with each round the range increases, the bell curve grows, the median is different, and the number with the greatest probability change.
Perpetual Notion		10-Adult	In Perpetual Nation, each player gets 28 cards with a different description on each. One card is turned over. Then, on each turn, players choose one of their cards and place it up so everyone can see it. As more descriptions are played, everyone keeps thinking of things that can fit the growing list.
Pizza Fraction Fun Jr.		7 & Up	Create an interest in fractions with a kid favorite – pizza! Games use pizza slices to represent different fraction values. Offers seven games focusing on a variety of fraction values. Fraction values include: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/8, 1/10, and 1/12.
Place Value and Ordering		6 & Up	Here's the step you need between the 1-100 board and mental math! Each of these 25 write-on, wipe-off cards is part of a 100 number board. One side has a clue to help children complete the pattern, and on the reverse, children can make up their own patterns.
Play Ball		6 & Up	Be the first to field a team of nine in all four colors. But watch out! Just when you think you've got your bases covered, someone plays an Action card and – BAM – you lose a turn, a player, or a whole team! Three levels of game play provide math challenges for older players and a matching game for younger baseball fans.
Portfolio Junior			There is trading, banking and as an added twist, puzzle building that levels the playing field and make the experience more balanced. Kids love being the banker which involves elements of math.
Purchase Game		9 & Up	To start the game, each player receives an amount of money and a financial record sheet. As they move around the game board, players purchase items, earn money, and make strategy decisions. Each player keeps a record of purchases, income, and cash balance.
Rack-O		8 & Up	Rack-O is part skill, part luck of the draw. Two to four players try to get their rack of 10 cards in consecutive order, from lowest to highest, first. The cards are numbered from 1 - 60, and each player takes a turn by drawing and discarding.
Riding Word Problem Train		8 & Up	Games focus on building skills in reading, interpreting, and solving word problems. Actual historical people, events, and/or facts are the characters and settings in each scenario. Covers sing/multi-step problems, estimation, extra information, and logic.
Round the World in Place Value		8 & Up	This game takes students learning the numbering system for the first time, to learning to round numbers after the decimal point.
Safely Home		8 & Up	This game develops children's algebraic thinking and teaches math strategy through addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions. Players follow the road signs while they race down a route full of mathematical obstacles.
Sequence for Kids		6 & Up	Play card from your hand, place your chip on a corresponding character on the board... When you have 4 in a row, it's a SEQUENCE and you win!
SET		7 & Up	Shout SET and everyone checks to see if you have discovered the three cards that form a SET from the twelve laid face up on the table. The dealer lays out three more cards. The search starts again. There are no turns, so you don't wait to pick up the action.
Smart Mouth		7 & Up	Smart Mouth is the quick thinking word game. When the Letter Getter reveals a "Start" and "End" letter, be the first player to name a word that starts/ends with those letters and the letters are yours! When the Letter Getter is empty, the player with the most letter tiles wins the game!
Smath		8 & Up	Form mathematical equations in crossword puzzle style. Each player attempts to make the best score by taking advantage of the bonus squares and the higher value pieces. The largest number plays may use in any equation is 12.
Stare Junior		6-12 years	Children take turns staring at visually-stimulating images on game cards: comics, funny photos, and much more. When the 30 second timer runs out, they are asked a number of questions about the images. The object is to see how much they can recall.
Stock Market Tycoon		8-Adult	Stock Market Tycoon captures all of the excitement, uncertainty and reality of the real stock market. Become the first investor to earn over $1 million, and attempt to close the market.
Stratedice		6-12 years	Stratedice contains fifteen fun mathematically challenging dice games that fine-tune a childÕs decision making and logical reasoning skills. Players must practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Time at the Zoo		8-Adult	This visit to the zoo requires a bit of strategy to calculate amount of time elapsed at three different difficulty levels: hour and half-hour; hour, half-hour, and five-minute; plus five-minute and less than five-minute intervals.
Top Secret		8-Adult	This board game helps children expand their knowledge of world geography. Use the world map on the game board to help answer geography quiz cards and gather data cards as you go. The first top secret spy to collect a correct set of data cards revealing the suspect, place and missing item wins.
Tri-Ominos		8-Adult	Players try to match two sides of one of their Tri-Ominos to one that is already on the table. Every time you place a Tri-Omino, you score the total number of points on that piece.
True Math		6-Adult	Players race around geometric board and answer entertaining and informative math questions.
UpWords		8-12 years	Upwords isn't an ordinary word game. You can build words in three directions: across, down and even upwards. You can stack letters on top of letters already on the board and change words into different words. Score points for each letter in your word.