I received a copy of the ThinkFun game Laser Maze to try out and review. I’ve done a bunch of these ThinkFun reviews and love their products. They are so well made and challenging. Opinions as always are 100% my own.
The latest game from ThinkFun is Laser Maze (Aff Link). I had the opportunity to check out this game at Toy Fair 2013. I was impressed with it then and am even more impressed with it once I got a chance to really sit down and play with it.
Here is a video from ThinkFun that shows you how the game is played.
The other day Allison, Eva and I played a couple rounds of a new card game called Swish Jr. This is the Jr. version of the popular game from ThinkFun called Swish. It helps challenge players to think in new and different ways. I sort of think of it as a low tech Tetris sort of game. Each card is transparent and has a couple of symbols on it some are outlines and some are solid. Your job is to take as few as two cards and as many as 9 cards to stack so that the images form a swish, named for a basketball going through the net without hitting the rim. So, a Swish is formed when every symbol in the stack of cards you select to make a Swish has a solid image on top of an outline and vice versa with every symbol in your stack matched. Here is a video of how the game is played.