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Card games are more than just a deck of cards; these card games appeal to
gifted children to play time and again! Check out these great card games,
and play them all!
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Little
Hands Playing Card Holder helps younger kids hold their cards!
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1-2-3 OY! and
A-B-C OY! card games
(numbers or letters) for the younger folks, multi-player or solitaire... lots
of fun!
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- The 24 Game
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Create the number 24 from the four numbers on a game card. You can add,
subtract, multiply and divide. Use all four numbers but use each number only
once. Available from simple addition and subtraction, right up to fractions,
decimals and algebra. Click for 24 Challenge tournament schedule.
Decks listed in order of difficulty...
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Ate 9
by Out of the Box
This short math game looks simple, and turns into a ton of fun for kids
of all ages, and their parents! Try it, you'll like it!
Anomia
Fast-paced family fun game, where common knowledge becomes uncommonly
fun!
 Apples
to Apples, Party Box Edition
or
Apple Crate Edition
(ages 12+)
This game receives rave reviews from our gifted community, for
family or group fun!
Also check out... (And for a full list of the words in each set, visit
Munching Apples fan site)
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Apples to Apples
7+
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Apples to Apples
Junior
(ages 9+)
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Party
Box Expansion #1 and
Party Box Expansion #2 more apples, more fun!
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Blink
Sharp eyes and fast hands, but with handicapping to even the game for the
most diverse 2 or 3 players... no reading required
Bohnanza
Card game all about planting, trading, and selling...
BrainBox
by MindWare
Turn the timer over, study the card and try to memorize as many details as you
can. Roll the die to determine which question will be asked and quiz each
other on what you remember... BrainBoxes (ages 8+)
U.S. Presidents,
All Around The World,
All Around the USA,
Dinosaurs, plus for younger kids (ages 4-8)
My First ABC BrainBox,
My First Pictures,
Nature
BrainQuest (or from
MindWare)
K - 7, with extra decks on America, Black History and more. Each deck is packed with
hundreds of intriguing questions on one side and answers kids can’t wait to
discover on the other...
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My First,
For Threes,
Pre-School,
Kindergarten,
Bedtime (ages 3-5)
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1st Grade,
1st Grade Math,
1st Grade Reading,
2nd Grade,
2nd Grade Math,
2nd Grade Reading
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3rd Grade,
3rd Grade Reading,
3rd Grade Math,
4th Grade.
5th Grade,
6th Grade,
7th Grade
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America,
Hispanic America.
For the Car,
Black History,
Presidents (all ages 8-12)
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Canada (ages 8-12)
 Can
You See What I See? by Gamewright
(ages 4+, 2-6 players)
Can you spot a seashell? A kangaroo? Find these and more in this visual
game of hide and seek. Reveal a find Me tile and try to find the featured
object among your set of Keep Me cards. Look carefully as objects may be
hidden and you may have more than one match on your cards. Be the first
player to collect all of your cards and you have one sharp eye...
Chomp 2-5 players, ages
6-8
It's a shrimp-eat-plankton world out there, and small fry will easily get
hooked on Chomp!, the fast and finny food chain card game...
 Chrononauts
The card game of history! Also try
Early American Chrononauts! From the folks who bring us
Fluxx 4.0
 Clank!
A Deck-Building Adventure
(2-4 players, ages 12+)
by Renegade Game Studios
Sneak into an angry dragon's mountain lair to steal precious
artifacts. Delve deeper to find more valuable loot. Acquire cards for
your deck and watch your thievish abilities grow. Be quick and be quiet.
One false-step and -- Clank! Each careless sound draws the attention of
the dragon, and each artifact stolen increases its rage. You can only
enjoy your plunder if you make it out of the depths alive! Try
additional adventures with
Clank! Sunken Treasures,
Clank! The Mummy's Curse, and
Clank! In Space
Cranium
Whoonu (8 to adult)
Have unforgettable fun as you reveal your favorite things, share
hilarious stories, and bond over surprising connections. You'll be amazed at
what you'll learn about your friends and family -- especially those you
think you know best! Also...
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Dominion
by Rio Grande Games
Construct the most advantageous deck of cards, with lands, minions,
riches and more... Don't miss the expansion packs:
Dominion
Intrigue, Dominion
Alchemy, and Dominion
Seaside
 Dutch
Blitz
A vonderful goot game!
Fast-moving family-friendly run-building game for 2-4 players, quick to
learn and hard to master, perfect fun for gifted kids and adults alike! Or
buy a
double Dutch Blitz set...
 Exploding
Kittens
A card game for people who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams
and sometimes goats. Highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian
Roulette, players draw cards until someone draws an Exploding Kitten, at
which point they explode, they are dead and out of the game--unless that
player has a Defuse card, which can defuse the Kitten using things like
laser pointers, belly rubs, and catnip sandwiches. All of the other cards in
the deck are used to move, mitigate, or avoid the Exploding Kittens... Or
the (not family friendly)
Exploding Kittens NSFW Edition
Family
Business Mayfair Games
Fast paced card game of gangster warfare, intrigue and suspense puts the
emphasis on fun. Each player is a mob boss competing to survive the murder
and mayhem of the Prohibition era. The last player to have a mobster alive
wins. Family fun game!
Fandex Family Field Guides between a toy and a book, and lots of fun!
With topics from history to nature and more, shaped cards include pictures
and facts... My kids love these!
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Mythology,
Shakespeare,
Explorers,
American Indians, |
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Presidents,
Civil War,
Composers,
Painters: Masters of Western Art, |
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Mummies, Gods and Pharaohs, |
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Cats,
Dogs,
Birds,
Butterflies, |
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Trees,
Wildflowers,
The Body,
50 States |
 Flip
Out by Gamewright
(ages 8 and up)
FlipOut for this colorful card game of back-to-back excitement! Switch,
swap, and flip cards in order to get at least four of a kind in a row.
Sounds easy, but the cards in your hand are not necessarily your own! Every
card is double sided, so anyone can take and use any card in sight. Collect
the most cards and, no matter how you look at it, you win!
 Fluxx
4.0
The card game where the rules always are... in Fluxx! Also available in
EcoFluxx,
Family Fluxx,
Martian
Fluxx and
Zombie
Fluxx versions. Or get
Fluxx Blanxx, and make up your own Keepers, Actions, Rules and
Goals! Other Fluxx Editions:
German Fluxx
and
Japanese Fluxx, plus
Monty Python Fluxx and Star
Fluxx! New
for 2012,
Pirate Fluxx,
Oz Fluxx
 Forbidden Island
by
Gamewright
Dare to discover Forbidden Island! Join a team of fearless adventurers
on a do-or-die mission to capture four sacred treasures from the ruins
of this perilous paradise. Your team will have to work together and make
some pulse-pounding maneuvers, as the island will sink beneath every
step! Race to collect the treasures and make a triumphant escape before
you are swallowed into the watery abyss! The latest creation by
cooperative game master, Matt Leacock...
Frog
Juice by
Gamewright
(ages 8 and up)
How would you create a magic spell? You might need some unicorn horn or
some eye of newt, or maybe some bats or toadstools or star and moon dust.
But be forewarned as you're stirring up your potion--you'd better be wary of
a black cat or the powerful All-Purpose Witch Wash! Strategy game for kids
and adults...
 Ghooost!
(2-8 players, ages 8 and up) by
IELLO (Richard Garfield)
Fast, easy-to-learn card game with a Halloween-based theme and lots of
twists and turns. Play your cards wisely to get rid of all the ghosts,
undead, vampires, zombies and other spooky creatures haunting your mansion.
Block your opponents while they're trying to drive spirits out of their home
and into your backyard – but beware as the scariest ghosts will not be
driven away so easily...
GUBS
by Gamewright
(ages 10 and up)
Welcome, you who have chanced to look beneath the dewy clover to uncover
the secret struggles of the Gubs. Behold this clever card game that casts
you in an epic contest to build the mightiest Gub colony. Seek wisdom from
The Esteemed Elder or protection from a Toad Rider as you fend off a myriad
of traps, lures, and other surprising events. Victory lies down an
ever-changing path and no one is safe until the final card falls!
 Harry
Potter Hogwarts Battle
(2-4 players, ages 12+)
by USAopoly
Play as your favorite characters and defend the wizarding world from
evil forces. Enhance your abilities as you build your deck with over 140
cards. Seven successive game adventures offer increasing difficulty as
you battle Villains and unlock new abilities, secrets and challenges.
Also includes four HOGWARTS house dice, game board, over 50 chip pieces,
and sorting cards to keep everything organized...
 iota
by Gamewright
2-4 players, ages 8 and up (gifted ages 6+)
Pocket-sized card game, players compete to score points by adding cards
whose 3 attributes individually are either all the same or all different...
a little like SET, and lot of fun!
Jurassic
Jumble
by Set Enterprises
Fun family game of switching and swiping dinosaur cards and bones, for up to
9 friends or family members of all ages!
 Killer
Bunnies (ages 12 and up, 2-6 players) by Steve Jackson Games
The Quest for the Magic Carrot, a this hilarious and fun filled game. Can
you escape the smothering impact of the deadly Fluorine Gas or the
devastating damage caused by the Stray Asteroid? It’s off the wall strategic
fun, where the goal is to survive and claim the Magic Carrot to win the game...
Expansions
Red Booster,
Violet Booster,
Green Booster,
Orange Booster,
Twilight White Booster,
Pink Booster,
Steel Booster,
Chocolate Booster,
Onyx Booster Pack,
Khaki Booster
The
Legend of Landlock
2 players, ages 8 and up (gifted ages 6+)
Employ a variety of complex-thinking skills like visual discrimination and
spatial relations to achieve your goal. At the same time, learn the
importance of thinking ahead before you play...
 Math
Twister
Deal the cards, create an accurate equation, score points for winning the
round. Three challenging variations for play with the family or in the
classroom!
Mille
Bornes
First published in 1962, Mille Bornes (pronounced "meel
born," French for "milestones") is an auto racing card game
whose object is to be the first to complete a series of 1,000-mile trips -
another favorite from my childhood!
MindTrap
Mindtrap's more than 500 riddles, mysteries, and trick questions will have
you scratching your head as you puzzle out the answers...
Monkeys
on the Moon 2-4 players (3-4 are better), ages 10 and up (8 and up gifted)
Players attempt to curry favor from different tribes of monkeys who
are technologically improving to the point where they will rocket off
the moon. As humorous and silly as the game sounds, this auction game is
actually clever and unique, as players first bid on monkeys of different
factions then attempt to increase the rating of the different tribes.
Different monkey factions are at odds with each other, and helping one
tribe will incur the wrath of another; so a player must watch who they
throw their lot in with...
 Munchkin
by Steve Jackson Games
Imagine a dungeon experience, but in an easy-to-play and
tons-of-laughter card game. Slay monsters, gather treasure, and gain
levels... first player to reach level 10 is the winner. Try all the expansion
decks! Get the
Munchkin 1 thru 7 Bundle or purchase separately...
Board games and Accessories
Or pick from these stand-alone Munchkin titles, spoofs on a variety of different
genres that can be played by themselves or mixed with the standard
Munchkin decks...
My Word and
My Word Junior
Fast-paced word-building card game - Junior has more vowels and less
difficult letters in the deck
Once
Upon a Time: The Storytelling Card Game (all ages)
Players create a story together, using cards that show typical elements
from fairy tales. One player is the Storyteller, and creates a story using
the ingredients on her cards. She tries to guide the plot towards her own
ending. The other players try to use cards to interrupt her and become the
new Storyteller. The winner is the first player to play out all her cards
and end with her Happy Ever After card...
On
the Dot the Super Spotted Brain Teaser (1-4 players)
Try to arrange four transparent squares so they perfectly match the
pattern shown on the dots card. Flip, rotate, and overlap the squares to
create a "spot on" copy...
PDQ
- Pretty Darn Cute Game (ages 8 and up)
Quick! Try to make a word out of the letters SMP. Sound SiMPle? How about
PTR. Get the PicTuRe? In this lightning fast party game, it's an all-out
race to be the first player to shout out a word using all three letter cards
in play. Each round starts with a different set of letters - it's up to you
to fill in the blanks. Whoever has the most cards at the end of the game is
the WNR!
Phase
10 (1-6 players, ages 8 and up)
Like Rummy, with challenging twists. Race through each of 10 phases
along the way... if you fail to complete a phase, you must try again!
Also in a
Masters Edition
Pit
The "Corner the Market" Card Game. Shout your deal and trade your cards to
"corner" the market. Be the first to get all the cards of one commodity,
slap the "Corner!" board and you'll win the hand. You'll feel like a trader
in the pits of the exchange! Beware of the Bear and take your chances with
the Bull... Also
Deluxe Pit Card Game
 Pix
Mix (ages 8 and up)
Find the "pix" in the mix. Six transparent cards with simple line art,
like a butterfly or a football, are stacked and added into a window envelope
to create a tangle of angles and a clutter of curves. You have 300 seconds
to identify the 6 line art illustrations at the end of two rounds wins.
Includes 80 acetate cards, 4 window envelopes, timer, score pad. Add Pix Mix
Expansion kit with 60 additional cards, available from
MindWare...
 Playing Cards
As a kid, I loved to play cards with our unique playing cards. We
had a deck of historical airplanes, and another of military planes. We
had decks with famous artwork. We had more, but those were my favorites. I would have loved
these playing card decks!
Qwitch
3 to 5 players race to play cards in sequence. But watch out! Letters
and numbers can go up, down, or stay the same... and switch at any time
Rat-a-Tat
Cat
(2-6 players, ages 6 and up...gifted kids even younger!)
Can you keep a poker face? Can you remember the numbers on the other
players cards? Sharpen your memory and your timing with this clever game of
strategy, skill, and awareness. Rules for younger and older kids...
 Rock
by Out of the Box
Race to capture the bugs by covering each Bug Card with a matching Leaf
Card–It’s a wild scramble to find each bug!
Run
Wild by Out of the Box
Race to get rid of your cards by creating sets and runs in the middle of
the table. Don’t have the right cards? No problem— grab from a set or run
already on the table, or play your cards on any existing set or run...
 Saboteur
(ages 8 to 12, 3-10 players)
You and your Dwarven brethren dig for gold in the depths of a mine.
Suddenly, a pick-axe breaks and the light from the lantern goes out. The
saboteur has struck again - but which of your fellow players is a saboteur?
Discover the traitor in your midst while questing for gold in this
path-laying card game for 3-10 suspicious dwarves...
 SET
The
Family Game of Visual Perception
Purchase
this great card game, or play the
on-line
version that changes daily, plus resources for teaching with SET. Also
from SET Enterprises:
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Quiddler
word game
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Triology
gin rummy with SET cards! (this one's also a board game)
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Xactika more figures, more challenge
Five
Crowns now there's five crowns to contend with!
Jurassic
Jumble
family game of switching and swiping dinosaur cards and bones...
Sleeping Queens
Rise and Shine! The Pancake Queen, the Ladybug Queen and ten of their
closest friends have fallen under a sleeping spell and it's your job to wake
them up. Play a knight to steal a queen or take a chance on a juggling
jester. But watch out for wicked potions and dastardly dragons! The player
who wakes the most queens wins...
Signals
and Semaphores
History in a box, including the fascinating historical background of the
signal flag, semaphore, phonetic alphabet, and Morse code systems, in
training dial, postcards, playing cards, posters...
 Snake
Oil
by
Out of the Box
In the Old West, the sly snake oil salesman had a special talent, he
could get the most skeptical customer to buy the most dubious product.
Now it's your turn! Invent your own crazy two-word products and sell
them to all types of customers. If the customer buys your product, you
win! With over 280 wild words and 70 oddball customers, you will never
run out of new combinations!
 Spot
It (ages 7+, or as soon as gifted kids read sight words well, 2-8
players)
by Blue Orange Games
Simple to learn, but hard to master. Match two cards by picture, word, or
one of each. There's only one match per pair of cards,
Spot It develops visual perception and matching
skills. Practice quick mental processing and sharpen cognitive skills in a
fun game.
Also available
Spot It On the Road,
Spot It MLB,
Spot It NHL or
Spot It Golf. Holiday fun,
Spot It Halloween! For the younger kids, play
Spot It Jr. Animals,
Spot It Alphabet,
Spot It Numbers & Shapes, or
Spot It Basic English. And for foreign language fun,
Spot It Basic Spanish or
Spot It Basic French!
 Summoner
Wars
(ages 9+, 2-4 players) by Plaid Hat Games
Summoner Wars is the exciting card game of fantastic battlefield combat
that puts you in the grandiose role of a Summoner. Strategy shapes the
composition of each deck of cards and how they are used. Tactics determine
the effectiveness of those cards in battle. Call walls of stone to protect
you in combat and serve as magic portals for you to summon your warriors.
Call your forces forth and send them in a surging wave against your enemy.
Cast spells that bolster your forces and cut down those who would oppose you...
 Super
Circles (ages 8+, much younger for gifted kids, 2-4 players) (or from
Funagain Games)
Quick to learn for even the youngest players, all you have to do is match
a ring of color on your card to the target card. Sounds simple, right? But
beware, you can't match the same ring the last player matched, and you're
racing all the other players to play the next card and change the rings to
match. Fun with two players, it gets wilder with each player you add...
Swap
This Uno variant card game adds a fast-paced hand-swapping to create a
great new strategy card game
 Swish
Spatial card game that challenges you to be the first to make matches,
or “Swishes”. Swishes are made by layering 2 to 12 cards so that every
ball swishes into a hoop of the same color. The cards can be rotated,
and must be placed on top of each other in the same orientation, and no
ball or hoop can be left unmatched. It's addictively fun!
Ticket to Ride by
Days of Wonder, to
learn more, visit Ticket
to Ride website Cross-country train adventure where players collect cards of
various types of train cars that enable them to claim railway routes connecting
cities throughout North America... Also
Ticket to Ride: Europe,
Ticket to Ride: Märklin,
Ticket To Ride USA 1910 Expansion,
Ticket to Ride Switzerland,
Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries and
Ticket to Ride Dice Expansion
Three
of a Crime (2-6 players, ages 8 and up)
It's a shrimp-eat-plankton world out there, and small fry will easily get
hooked on Chomp!, the fast and finny food chain card game...
Twisted Fish (or from
McNeill Brighter
Minds)
Takes "Go Fish" to a whole new level, and adds challenge that even the
adults won't get tired of!
We
Didn't Playtest This At All (expansion deck) (2-10 players; the more the
merrier!) by Asmadi Games
Looking for a quick and wacky card game that keeps you on your toes?
Be careful reading the cards, or you'll cause yourself to lose.
And watch out for that Kitten Ambush! Don't miss the expansions,
We Didn't Playtest This Either!, We Didn't Playtest: Chaos Pack
Expansion, We Didn't Playtest: Dice are Fun (With Dice!) and
 Wig
Out by Gamewright
(2-6 players, ages 6+, gifted 4+)
Flip your wig for this fast and frenzied card game that will put your
frizzy in a tizzy! Race against your opponents to get rid of cards by
matching all kinds of colorful hairstyles. Put together a pair of Pigtails.
Combine a couple of Cornrows. Match a Mullet or some Mohawks. The first
player out of cards is a cut above the rest!...
You've
Been Sentenced (3-10 players, ages 8+)
Using a unique word deck of pentagon
shaped cards containing conjugations of funny words, famous names from
throughout history, familiar places, and wild cards, players have to
make grammatically correct and justifiable sentences. The real fun
begins when players have to read their sentences out loud and explain
what they mean to the rest of players. They form the jury and vote
thumbs up or down on whether the sentence and justification stand and
the points are scored...
Mensa Select!
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December 01, 2020
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