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Game Review: The Mind Benders Card Game

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The Mind Benders Card Deck: Over 150 Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain

The Mind Benders Card Deck: Over 150 Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain

by Scott Kim (Author)

This card game has puzzles to solve in all kinds of categories. There are linguistic puzzles, spatial and mathematical puzzles, and logic puzzles. You have to imagine a cube rotating, or count up a certain type of shape. There are word puzzles with puns or funny translations of words to decode. There are matching puzzles with different complex diagrams to match. Each one is really different and interesting. Some of them are easy, and others are really difficult!

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Game Review: Build a Skyscraper

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Archicards by Paul Farrell

Archicards: Build a Skyscraper
by Paul Farrell
5 out of 5 stars


This game has 64 cards that are designed with the towers, windows, roofs, and decorative doorways of a city skyscraper. Each card has cut-out slots so that you can connect them with each other to build a 3D puzzle of a skyscraper in any shape you want! The cards are sturdy cardboard, and printed with bright colors and a simple design.

I can’t stop playing this game! Every day for the last several days, I sit down and construct something new.

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Book/ Game Review: Build a Castle

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Archicards by Paul Farrell
Archicards: Build a Castle
by Paul Farrell

5 out of 5 stars

This game has 64 cards that are designed with the towers, turrets, windows, portcullis, flags, and shields of a medieval castle. Each card has cut-out slots so that you can connect them with each other to build a 3D puzzle of a castle in any shape you want! The cards are sturdy cardboard, and printed with bright colors and a simple design.

I can’t stop playing this game! Every day for the last several days, I sit down and construct something new. I’ve done three individual towers, two towers with a bridge in between, one long building, and one L-shaped building with one big tower. I keep changing it up, and I feel so creative! It’s completely fascinating because it fires up my imagination and there are so many options for how to put the castle together. Continue reading →