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2012 Tillywig Award Winners

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Puzzle Match
Price $ 14.99
By Wowopolis
Age
3-6 Yrs.
Sterling Fun

Puzzle Match puts a new spin on memory and matching games. Play starts with 24 puzzle pieces face down on a surface. On a given turn, one player flips over any two pieces. If the two pieces are halves of the same picture, that player connects them together and keeps the picture. If not, the pieces are returned face down and it is the next player's turn. For example, if you turn up a dolphin's tail and the top half of a se...Read more

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Qualities
Price $ 38.00
By SimplyFun
Age
12 +
Sterling Fun

Qualities is a game in which players learn about themselves, other players, and what other players think about them. Not in a judgmental way. In fact, it's very positive and enlightening, not words one normally associates with a board game. That's part of what recommends it, the fact that the game itself has uniquely enjoyable qualities, and a level of depth that adds to the fun in surprising ways. On each turn a differen...Read more

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Rainbow House Pegging Game
Price $ 39.99
By HABA
Age
2 - 6 Yrs.
Top Fun

When it comes to activating young, developing minds, there's beauty and perfection in simplicity. A single three-dimensional object can be held in the hand and inspected in near infinite ways. Rainbow House Pegging Game, comprised of numerous such objects (19 in all), presents the perfect playscape with which to stimulate safe, joyful exploration of the physical world. Squares, rectangles, and semicircles of varying size ...Read more

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Age
7 +
Sterling Fun

What better way to make a personal fashion and artistic statement than by wearing rings you designed and created yourself? Show the world your creativity with Rhinestone Rings, a kit that makes designing and making beautiful rings quick and easy. The kit comes with everything you need to produce a dozen rings. A foam flower holds the ring bases in place while you add layer upon layer of beautiful precut floral and butter...Read more

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RINGSTIX
Price $ 29.99
By SYSTEM ENTERPRISES
Age
10 +
Best Family Fun

RINGSTIX is an active, fun outdoor game in which players, each holding a pair of specially designed curved sticks, launch a brightly colored plastic ring back and forth. Launching always involves using both sticks, and is an important part of where their curvature comes in. Just place both sticks through the ring, curving outward, and pull them quickly apart. The ring sails forward into the air where it's caught by the ot...Read more

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ROBO FISH
Price $ 9.99
By ZURU, Inc
Age
5 +
Sterling Fun

ROBO FISH fits in the palm of your hand, but that's not what he's made for. Drop him in water, be it drinking glass, fish bowl, bathtub, or pool, and watch the little fellow immediately kick into gear. Or gears, I should say. In addition to swimming energetically the moment he's placed in water, ROBO FISH automatically alternates among several different speeds. One moment, he's swimming along the surface of the water, the...Read more

Rodeo Rummy by Square Shooters Back to top

Rodeo Rummy is quick-moving fun for 2 or more players. Its 9 special patented dice have traditional playing card faces on the six sides of each die, so that you have a complete deck of cards plus 2 jokers at your disposal with each roll. In addition to playing Rodeo Rummy, you can use the dice to play just about any popular card game. In Rodeo Rummy, the spinner dictates what you're aiming for during the three rolls you'r...Read more

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Rolling Bones
Price $ 32.00
By SimplyFun
Age
7 +
Brain Child

Rolling Bones is an ingenious game that requires making strategic decisions as you go. The goal is to assemble a human skeleton by placing special bone dice into their proper places on the board. On your first roll, all 18 dice are used. After placing as many as possible, you may re-roll the remaining dice. But each subsequent roll requires a given number of unplaced dice to be taken out of circulation, reducing your scor...Read more

Rory's Story Cubes - Actions Back to top
Age
8 & Up
Best Family Fun

The telling and hearing of tales makes for a fertile imagination. It also can be a raucous good time. So we're fortunate to have Rory's Story Cubes to provide seedlings that sprout into spontaneous full-fledged stories. With this 'Actions' version, each of the 9 cubes has an image on each side, representing 54 different verbs. Just roll the cubes and start talking, spinning a story from the images you see. The cubes act a...Read more

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Scallywags
Price $ 15.99
By Gamewright
Age
8 +
Best Family Fun

Part of what makes Scallywags such great fun is its simplicity and variety. And of course there are the gold coins (40 to be exact), which figure prominently in game-play. The coins are dumped in the middle at the outset, face up or down, however they land. On each turn, a player does one of 3 things 1) Take one face down coin, or 2) Play one action card, or 3) Discard one card and pass. The variety stems from the numerou...Read more

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Scramblitz
Price $ 19.95
By MindWare
Age
8 & Up
Best Family Fun

Scramblitz is pure action! Players use quick eyes and nimble fingers in a head to head race to recreate what's on the Puzzle Card, using their own set of 16 pattern tiles. First player done wins the round. But not so fast! Each tile is double-sided, and either side may appear to work at a given point in the solution. If you don't consider which side to play as you speed along, you may get to the end and find that your puz...Read more

Shains Notebook with 100 Elements Back to top
Age
3 +
Sterling Fun

Kids love to personalize their belongings, especially things near and dear to their hearts. This journal-sized personal notebook, made from recycled, recyclable materials, comes with 100 elements - letters, numbers, cool icons. They're perfect for personalizing the notebook's soft flexible rubber cover, fitting easily and snugly into its more than 150 holes. Adorn it with your name, message, and musings. Make a statement!...Read more

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Shrimp Cocktail
Price $ 14.99
By Blue Orange Games
Age
7 +
Laugh Out Loud

The squeaky-toy Starfish in the game Shrimp Cocktail is pure genius. Why? Because it's an integral part of the action and produces instant hilarity. Players eyeball it, grapple over it, squeeze it, even long for it. And sometimes, amazingly, they forget to use it, an offense that costs them part of their prior haul of shrimp. Here's how it works. There are 3 Fishing Zones, each represented by a circular piece. Players tak...Read more

Shrinky Dinks Fashion Boutique Back to top

Shrinky Dinks Fashion Boutique is its own wonderful little world. It comes with a 3-D Pop-up Playscape - a very colorful, pretty, and detailed 3-sided boutique in which kids dress and model cardboard fashion dolls using the more than 50 pre-cut Shrinky Dinks. Shrinky Dinks - in this case, assorted dresses, hats, accessories, even pooches, are amazing. Give them detailed colors using the included Faber-Castell colored penc...Read more

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