Card Games
- Blink! (Named Blink because the game goes that fast. Match the pattern, color, or number.)
- Set (Slower, deeper thinking, and just as addictive.)
- Spot It (Not a math game, but a love of card and board games is likely to spill over into math.)
Board Games
- Blokus (Helps build spatial reasoning skills.)
- Katamino (Turns pentomino puzzles into a two-person game, and provides a wealth of puzzles from simple to the original killer puzzle - put all 12 pieces into a rectangle.)
- Quarto (Get four in a row, without giving your opponent a winning piece.)
- Connect Four
- Don't forget chess and go
- Our favorite non-mathy board games include Dizios and FlipOut
- Make your own board game...
Puzzles
- Tangrams (Tangoes makes a nice set.)
- Shut the Box (Looks boring to me, but kids love it.)
- Rush Hour (Get the red car out of the lot. These are such fun logic puzzles.)
- Chocolate Fix (The realistic candies add to the fun of these logic puzzles.)
- Perplexus
Building Toys
- Citi Blocs (aka Kapla blocks or Keva blocks)
- Polydrons
- Origami
Instructional Games
- Math Card War (free, uses playing cards)
- Equate (board game, plays like Scrabble, using numbers and operations)
Online Games & Apps
- Bloxorz
- Solitaire on a Circle
- DragonBox
- Ko's Journey
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