Q-bitz Jr.

By MindWare
Price $19.95
Age 3-8 yrs.

Q-bitz Jr. is an exceedingly enjoyable game that plays well across a range of ages and keeps players deeply focused and engaged. It's fast-moving fun in which everyone is in on the action from start to finish. In addition to its considerable entertainment value, Q-bitz Jr. is a marvelous educational tool. Players utilize and develop a host of skills that include enhanced spatial reasoning, pattern matching, problem solving, visualization, and more. Gameplay is remarkably easy to learn. Each player receives a tray and a set of 4 same-color cubes. Someone turns a card from the Q-bitz Jr. deck face up, and players race to recreate the pattern on the card, rotating and positioning their cubes as necessary to do so. A second round of play includes dice-like rolling of the cubes, with players using those dice that match parts of the pattern and rerolling the rest until someone achieves the complete pattern. The winner of each round collects the card, and the player with the most cards after three 2-round sets wins. For 2 to 4 players!