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The Kickstarter-funded, uniquely fragmented word game, intuitive and fun for 2-8 players ages 8+ of all skill levels!

Every letter counts in a game of Rewordable! Each of the 120 cards has been selected for optimal word crafting. Build a new word and be rewarded—or add to other players’ words to steal their points. Create the largest lexicon of words by the end of the game to become the Rewordable champion. This variable deck was carefully crafted to make it easier to form longer, more common words, and offers a fresh linguistic experience every game. Happy word-making!

Show off your page-turning prowess and bust out your best book-themed jokes with this raucous party game full of literary laughs from the wordsmiths at the indie nonprofit Electric Literature.

Papercuts is what Kurt Vonnegut, James Baldwin, and Virginia Woolf would play if they were alive, locked in a room together, and forced to play a card game. This party game for bibliophiles and pop culture fanatics follows an intuitive and popular game format, similar to Apples to Apples: the dealer lays down a Question card and each player must fill in the blank with one of the five Answer cards in their hand. What ensues is an endless loop of hilarious literary jokes and gut-busting gameplay.

A CARD GAME FOR WHEELERS AND (ART) DEALERS

With their social media presence, hit books, and now this puzzle, Overview aims to demonstrate how human activity and natural forces shape our Earth in compelling photographic detail. From Overview’s second book, Overview Timelapse, comes this image of vibrantly colorful tulip fields of Lisse, Netherlands in bloom. Perfect for photography lovers and analogue gamers, this 20 x 27-inch puzzle will provide hours of challenging fun, all packaged into one sturdy box.

A learning tool disguised in fun, Write On is filled with helpful tips for creating stories — narratives, poems, comics, song lyrics — true ones, made-up ones, and are-you-kidding-me ridiculous ones. Quirky writing prompts get the creative juices flowing, and a tear-out story card game gets the stories rolling. When it’s complete, the journal becomes a one-of-a-kind keepsake kids will be proud to share. Bonus: Inside are two sheets of bookplate stickers for reviewing and sticking into favorite books.

This standalone 3D puzzle is an intricate and dazzling balancing act with 38 colorful shapes that combine to form an exotic, abstract tree—plus countless bonus configurations—designed by renowned illustrator Bob Staake.

Alexander Calder meets Dr. Seuss with this brilliant puzzle that offers a unique building experience perfect for any puzzler or modern art enthusiast. The thirty-eight brightly colored die-cut pieces (called pARTz) fit together to form an astonishing standing sculptural art piece. You can also build countless simpler sculptures using fewer pARTz. One side of the 18×24-inch poster enclosed with the puzzle shows a dinosaur, a giraffe, a bird, and a plane as examples. The other side provides step-by-step instructions for building the Tree. This is an eye- and hand-engaging activity that will provide hundreds of hours of creative fun for puzzle lovers, art lovers, and tinkerers of all ages.

ABOUT ILLUMINATED PLAYING CARDS
From the illustrator behind The Illuminated Tarot comes a set of playing cards that are sure to enchant card game fans and tarot readers alike!

As a follow-up to Caitlin Keegan’s successful tarot deck, Illuminated Playing Cards is a beautifully boxed set of two decks of playing cards, complete with a pamphlet including the rules to four popular card games and an easy three-card tarot reading. For those who want to use the deck for tarot readings, the pamphlet also contains a list of each card and its meaning as it corresponds to a traditional tarot card deck.

From the creators of the celebrated storytelling project Mortified comes I Can’t Believe I Did That, the gloriously awkward party game that celebrates all of your weirdest and most wonderful childhood memories!

• Both a party game for adults ages 17 and up and an exercise in empathy and hilarity, this game includes plenty of conversation prompts designed to spark discussions of your most confusing, heartwarming, and totally OMG-worthy moments.
• Reminisce with your friends about such memories as intense pop star crushes, questionable fashion choices, and sobbing at the middle school dance.
• The perfect game to play at parties or your next virtual gathering.

This addictive collection of outlandish hypothetical questions from an acclaimed pop-culture journalist is sure to stimulate unconventional conversations and unexpected debates.

Clarkson Potter

Bring this journal on your next adventure to create the best-ever souvenir. This travel journal from the award-winning creative design team behind the Wee Society suite of products and apps is filled with a bunch of thought-starters so kids can capture important stuff, like cool things they spot, new things they try and people they meet. There are also adventure badges to earn, stickers, places to keep photos and other treasures, and postcards to send. Whether you’re headed to grandma’s, camping for the weekend, or taking a summer vacation, Go! is pretty much guaranteed to make your next trip even more memorable. Ideal for the holiday travel, and adventures of all kinds, this is an imagination-building gift that will engage kids for hours on end! Happy trails!