The 2024 edition of The BIG Toy Book just dropped and features curated showcases highlighting more than 325 new toys, games, and adjacent products across 13 categories.
Our Games & Puzzles showcase includes 36 new products that retailers and other members of the trade should be aware of this year. From an updated spin on Educational Insights’ Kanoodle to licensed puzzles from Super7 and Moose Games’ innovative take on pickleball, there are loads of new products for gamers and puzzlers of every age. Check out a digital version of this curated showcase below and click here to read the full issue!
THE DOG ATE MY HOMEWORK
Players will pick a drawing, put it in the dog’s mouth, crank its ear, then collect the shreds out of the other end. Then, they will try to unscramble the shredded homework and correctly guess the image in order to turn it in before the deadline and win the game.
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Available: Fall 2024
1,000-PIECE LICENSED PUZZLES
Super7 introduces a range of puzzles featuring pop culture brands. Puzzlers can assemble works of art inspired by Toho’s Godzilla vs Biollante Japanese cinema poster, the 1986 Japanese Transformers: The Movie poster, or the Mighty Morphin’ Power Ranger’s Green Ranger as he appeared in BOOM! Studios comic art (pictured).
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BLAST TRACK
Experience the thrills and chills of amusement parks in Blast Track. Players create a roller coaster with gravity-defying loops, steep slopes, and dark tunnels that will have the fair’s visitors wanting more than one ride.
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Available: August 2024
13 BEAVERS
Players must correctly guess whether a card will be higher or lower than the one before it to move forward in the game. The first one to reach Beaver Paradise wins and joins the ranks of the infamous 13 Beavers.
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Available: Spring 2024
BARREL OF MONKEYS
Kids can enjoy a refreshed take on the classic skill-linking game. Players take turns creating a link with the 15 redesigned monkeys. The player who makes the longest chain wins the game.
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Available: Spring 2024
SNAP 2 IT
Snap 2 It combines traditional board game play with STEM principles. Each player has their own light and races to be the first one to snap a path between their light and the communal battery. Kids can build the path solo or play competitively with up to four players as they learn the basics of…
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CAKE-N-BAKE CHALLENGE
Players race to stack their cake slices based on the order shown on a game card. The first player to correctly stack their cake wins a candle, and whoever collects six candles first wins the game.
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KANOODLE ULTIMATE CHAMPION
Kids can become the ultimate Kanoodle champion with this newest addition to the viral line of puzzle games. It features 500 new puzzle challenges in both 2D and 3D modes, as well as a built-in, battery-powered timer. The game includes 12 metallic-finish Kanoodle pieces and a challenge guide.
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PICKLEBALL BLAST
Pickleball Blast puts a new spin on the sport with a board game-size tabletop court and a net with an attached Screamin’ Pickle launcher. Using the thumb-powered pickleball paddles, players send the Pickle play piece soaring and try to flip the pickle lids at the other end of the court.
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GIANT UNO NFL
This giant version of the classic game of UNO is played with oversized cards and features a special “Ice the Kicker” rule that will have players trying to flick a paper football through a “goalpost” shape another player makes with their hands.
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WORDSNAP
WordSnap is a word-building game played outside of a traditional gameboard. Players can use the octagonal, soft-snap pieces to craft words vertically, horizontally, and diagonally, creating a crossword puzzle-like grid. Players will score additional points as patterns emerge in the built words.
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THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY
Players must answer the card’s hypothetical question with the intensity of their answer matching a provided secret number. Then, players can work together to put crazy, absurd answers in correct numerical order based on scales like “tastiest to grossest,” “cutest to scariest,” and more.
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BAD GIRL ERA
In this party game, players will reveal the mean things they’ve said or done when a card with a Bad Girl and Virtue prompt is drawn each round. The first player to reach the last space on their Evolution of a Bad Girl card loses the game, while the player on the lowest space wins.
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DICE, LIMITED EDITION EASTER, AND AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER SHASHIBO PUZZLES
Shashibo are magnetic puzzles that can transform into more than 70 different shapes. These new puzzles are inspired by dice, Easter, and Paramount’s Avatar: The Last Airbender (pictured, available June 2024).
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MASTERS OF CRIME
In this series of games, players step into the shoes of a criminal mastermind to sift through evidence, reveal clues, and solve puzzles together. Masters of Crime games are integrated with real world elements, including Google Maps, phone numbers, websites, and more.
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Available: Summer 2024
GODZILLA ULTRA-DELUXE 3D CRYSTAL PUZZLE
This 7-inch Godzilla puzzle is the most intricately sophisticated Crystal Puzzle in the 3D Crystal Puzzle line. It features 71 pieces for fans to build up the King of Monsters.
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Available: Spring 2024
GUESS THAT JOB!
In this two-player game illustrated by Emily Balsley, kids have to guess different occupations. It comes with game boards, character cards, and playing tokens, as well as a 24-page booklet with details about each job.
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Available: May 2024
POKÉMON TCG: SCARLET & VIOLET — PALDEAN FATES ELITE TRAINER BOX
This expansion includes nine booster packs, a shiny illustration rare promo card featuring Mimikyu, accessories, and a collector’s box. It introduces Shiny Tera Pokémon ex. Trainers can collect more than 130 shiny Pokémon from the Paldea region, including shiny Pikachu, shiny Ceruledge, shiny Tinkaton, shiny Dondozo, shiny Tatsugiri, and more.
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ULTIMATCH
In this cooperative card game, players pass cards to each other to help make matches by adding or subtracting numbers or by mixing colors together. If players make an Ultimatch by matching both color and number, they draw another card to add to their hand. As they make matches, they will reveal new cards until…
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Available: Summer 2024
TORTOISE TUMBLE
Kids can roll their Tortoise to victory with this garden-themed tumbling game. Players can piece together the jigsaw-style garden scene cards in a different way each time they play for a fresh game experience. Players score points based on how and where each tortoise lands and the first player to reach 500 points wins the…
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Available: Spring 2024
GO-GO GHOST
This family-friendly game challenges players to enter the manor and become ghost hunters. They will compete to be the first one to take a photo of the ghost and escape the manor before the light-up, motorized ghost finds them.
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BUNNY BRUNCH
In this game, kids will race to complete patterns on the plates to feed the bunnies before the mouse eats the bunny food.
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SCRAMBOOZLE! PUZZLE BALL
Kids can shake the Scramboozle, then twist the top to carefully roll the marbles into place and solve puzzle challenges. This puzzle ball comes with an activity guide and is self- contained for play on the go.
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Available: Fall 2024
BATTLE BOX
After getting the blockers into place, players take turns launching marbles to try and knock down their opponent’s targets. This skill and strategy game requires players to plan their attacks to be the first player to knock down all of the obstacles.
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Available: Summer 2024
5 LITTLE BIRDS
This one-player game features 60 challenges for kids to complete. Using the clues, kids have to use logic and deduction to figure out where the birds go and clip them to their correct location in the wooden tree.
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Available: April 2024
FILL YOUR PANTS
In this scavenger hunt, players race to collect random things described on their game card and stuff them into their giant underpants as they go. It’s a pant-filling race to collect items in 50 categories, like “something furry,” “something long,” “something shiny,” and something floppy.”
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Available: Fall 2024
PSYCHO KILLER
Crime becomes a party in this card game inspired by retro slasher films. In this game of survival (and sometimes betrayal), players must carefully manage their hand of cards, because when the dreaded psycho killer appears, he’ll take weapon cards and turn them into injury points.
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Available: Spring 2024
CRANIUM CRAZE! CARD GAME
This fast-paced family game blends the best of Cranium and Crazy Eights. Players can draw, act, describe, and play the right cards to win the game. There are 400 clues and unlimited ways to use them.
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Available: June 2024
WORLD’S SMALLEST TRIVIAL PURSUIT
This miniature version of the classic game comes with teeny, tiny pieces, including the iconic Trivial Pursuit wedges. Players can put their knowledge to the test with this travel-friendly game for up to six players.
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BADA BING!
In this new take on the American gangster genre, 2-8 players fight for power, control, and survival to become the Boss of Bosses by acquiring businesses and cash. Throughout the game, players may face the consequences of “An Offer You Can’t Refuse” and “Special Investigation” cards as they attempt to wipe out the competition and…
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Available: Spring 2024
BATTLE SOCCER
Players go head-to-head in this fast-action tabletop game that features a sloped play surface and six player-controlled flippers. Kids can battle it out at home, on a camping trip, at a friend’s house, and more.
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WHACK ATTACK ARCADE
The Whack Attack Arcade game brings the classic whacking game from the arcade to the playroom. The arcade-style game features lights, sounds, and vibrant colors and graphics for interactive fun. Kids can try to beat the high score again and again.
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BUFFALO GAMES WOOD PUZZLES
These 250- and 500-piece wooden puzzles feature images from artists such as Charles Wysocki and Thomas Kinkade.
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Available: Summer 2024
THE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE (CYOA) TAROT
Artist Brian Anderson assembled a diverse cast to inhabit the classic Major and Minor Arcana cards in this CYOA Tarot Deck. It comes with an accompanying guidebook written by CYOA author and tarot practitioner Rana Tahir, who explains the history of tarot along with the meanings of the 78 cards and example readings.
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Available: Spring 2024
THE DONUT CHALLENGE
In this game that’s fun for the whole family, players compete in more than 100 solo, co-op, and head-to-head physical challenges to earn ingredient cards. The first player to collect all four ingredients will win the game.
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BIG FOOT VS. YETI: SPLAT ATTACK!
In this game, players catapult mud pies and snow patties to knock over creatures on the opposing team one by one. The last beast left standing at the end wins the game.
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Available: Summer 2024
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