A soft, plush cube with a color on each side. Roll it, pull a card in that color and do what it says: count five fingers, make a sad face, find something red or make an animal sound. Made for toddlers from about 18 months.

Picture circles of everyday things go around the room, and kids draw a card and go find the match. There are lots of ways to play, starting at about 18 months.

Spin, then use the squirrel tongs to grab the matching acorn for your tree. The same series includes Shelby’s Snack Shack, Sophie’s Seashell Scramble and Happy Floppy’s Happy Hunt, each working on early skills like colors, numbers or shapes.

Listen to a pizza order, then find the right topping cards for your pizza. It comes with a storybook about listening. Start with two toppings and work up.

Bingo with pictures (the words are printed too). Slide the Zinger to reveal two tiles, and the first to call out a match covers it on their card. There is an easier side and a harder side. Ages 4 to 8.

A shorter Monopoly with two levels: flip the board and cards to go from counting and matching for little kids to reading and simple math for bigger kids.

Scrabble for younger players, ages 5 and up, with a little math in the scoring.

The younger-kid version of Bananagrams: use letter tiles to build words. It is less of a speed game and easy to take on the go.

Watch the lights flash in a pattern and repeat it back as the pattern gets longer. It comes in full-size and pocket versions, and the sound can be turned off.

Build your own kingdom with domino-style tiles by matching land types. Scoring multiplies each area by its crowns, and each round kids put the tiles in order from least to greatest. Queendomino is the bigger follow-up.

Roll the dice and add, subtract, multiply or divide your way to the center of a color-coded board of numbers.

Toss your ant dice at the picnic foods you want most and use multiplication to snap up the best cards. Ages 8 and up.

Everyone builds their own train by matching numbers, plus a shared train in the middle. Easy for all ages and great for big groups.

A classic card game where you move your pegs around the board by making card combinations, often adding to 15.

Play cards from 1 to 100 onto two piles counting up and two counting down, without getting stuck.

A quick card game where you pass hands around the table and collect the best sushi combinations for points.

A quick dice game where you cross numbers off your sheet in order while avoiding penalty points.

Work through ten phases of sets and runs, like three of a kind or numbers in a row. It comes as a card game or as a dice game in a tin.

Roll two little pigs and score points depending on how they land.

Roll the dice and pass your chips left, right or into the center.

A classic push-your-luck dice game. You can buy a set or make your own travel kits with dice and printed score sheets.

Plant and trade bean fields. Rarer beans are riskier but worth more, which makes probability easy to see.

Flip a picture card and race to say a word that starts with the same sound. Fast, silly and great for big groups, with rules for other ways to play.

Two teams race to find their words on the table using one-word clues from their spymaster.

Spell a word that starts with the last letter of the word before. From the makers of Set, and you can play timed or untimed.

Describe the word on your card using only one-syllable words. Slip up, and you get bopped with an inflatable club.

Like Scrabble, but you can stack letters on top of words to make new ones.

Roll a letter, then race to name something in each category that starts with it.

Telephone meets Pictionary: draw a word, the next person writes what they think it is, the next draws that guess, and so on.

Picture dice you roll to make up a sentence or a story. There are endless ways to play and lots of themed sets.

A fast card game: say the five words in order as you flip cards, and slap when the picture matches the word.

The storyteller picks one of the beautifully illustrated cards and gives a one-word clue, and everyone guesses which card it was.

Set the frogs as shown on a challenge card, then jump them like checkers until only one is left. The cards go from easy to super hard, with answers on the back.

Slide the cars out of the way to free yours from the traffic jam, with challenge cards from easy to extra hard and answers on the back. Rush Hour Jr. is the version for younger kids.

Build a tower path that gets the marble from start to finish, with challenge cards from easy to super hard. Ages 8 to adult.

A logic puzzle with pieces: read the clues and move the cats around the crime scene to figure out who did it. Ages 8 to adult.

Like Clue meets Battleship: hide your secret leader chicken and launch eggs to find your opponent’s. Ages 8 and up.

Fit the colored pieces into the board to finish the puzzle, Tetris-style. The Challenge version has a built-in timer.

Draft colorful tiles to fill your rows, a bit like a Sudoku with patterns, and score more for tiles that touch.

A whodunit for ages 5 and up: gather clues and rule out suspects to catch the thief.

Two players race to slide their colored pucks into the pattern on the card, with easier and harder cards.

Hide your army’s ranks and try to capture your opponent’s flag.

Work together to collect four treasures before the island sinks. The board changes every game. Ages 10 and up.

Work as a team to stop outbreaks around a world map.

A beginning coding game: lay out programming cards (loops and if-then statements) to plan how to fry, mash or roast your opponents’ potatoes.

Collect adventurer cards to earn dice, then roll to defeat goblins and dragons.

Grow trees from seeds to full size while the sun moves around the board, with beautiful 3D trees and a lot of strategy.

Based on the Brain Games show: mind tricks and illusions that show how the brain works.

A nature trivia game with questions at different levels, so the youngest players and adults can play together.

A strategy game about birds and their habitats, with real bird facts on gorgeous cards.

Claim train routes across the map to connect cities. Expansions and stand-alone versions like London add new maps.

A simpler Ticket to Ride for younger kids.

Travel to U.S. national parks and collect park cards, with a booklet of facts about each place.

Build a civilization around ancient wonders like the Hanging Gardens and the Great Lighthouse. Duel is the two-player version.

A team Bible trivia game through the whole story of Scripture, with drawing and acting challenges.

Like Uno, but you match treasure colors and God’s attributes.

A rapid-fire game: name something you are thankful for in each category before time runs out.

A 75-piece magnetic puzzle that helps kids learn the books of the Bible by sorting them by order and genre, so they can find passages with confidence. Hands-on, screen-free, and kids can do it on their own.

A puppy-matching card game created by a six-year-old homeschooler, with fun obstacles like squirrels and puppies lured away with bones.

Act out clues for everyone to guess. Every card has a picture at the top, so kids who cannot read yet can play.

Squeeze the potato to start the music, toss it around, and whoever is holding it when the song stops is out.

Everyone is connected by stretchy noodle bracelets, and you have to reach the spot on the card without breaking the chain.

One player wears a Velcro beard while a partner tosses sticky balls at it, following silly trick cards.

A push-your-luck card game where raccoons collect trash, but get too greedy and you could lose it all.

Build a stable of unicorns while stealing or destroying your opponents’ unicorns.

A Wild West card game of sheriffs, outlaws and renegades with hidden roles.

Flip two cards and race to find the one picture they share. There is always exactly one match. It comes in a small tin, with lots of themed versions and different ways to play.