City Square Off Strategy Game for Two Players

Calling all land barons and property magnates! Here is your chance to gather-up more of the city than your opponent. This clever match-up game was introduced by Gamewright Company in 2011. Each player has their own city grid. On each turn both players must set the exact same size piece on their city grid. Each player starts with a duplicate set of identical pieces. The excitement starts as players can choose whichever position they desire to play a piece.

Foresight and planning are the key to success in City Square Off Game. As space on your square gets filled up there will be less places to fit-in additional buildings. Player with the fewest remaining un-played pieces wins. Very easy to learn, exceptionally engaging game for two players.

You'll notice some resemblance to Blokus Game and Cathedral Game. The play in City Square Off is substantially different.

Best New 2011 Brain Teaser

We are often asked our opinion on the best new puzzle for a given season. Our best recommendation for 2011 is Anti-Virus Bio-Logical Brain Teaser.

Anti-Virus puzzle has an insidious virus that has infected your game board. Players need to discover a way to remove the double RED nasty virus from the grid by sliding the other harmless puzzle pieces around the game. Clever game design and shape of the virus pieces allows them to easily move in four diagonal directions.

Colorful, provocative, 60 puzzles, with 5 levels of ascending difficulty. Great for ages 8 to 137 years. There are enough challenges here to keep the average player puzzling for weeks, maybe even months.

Gear Cube Puzzle Will Twist Your Mind

Like the challenge of the Rubik's Cube ? Along comes an all new rotational style Puzzle called the Gear Cube. The puzzle pieces form a solid square similar to the rubik's cube. However once one turns the sides you see the pieces move in a much more strange way. The pieces are attached to a series of internal gears. Gear Cube turns it into a very odd shape when it is mixed up.

Mix up the puzzle by rotating the sides many, many times. The objective is to bring the puzzle back to ALL one color on each side.

(same objective as the original Rubik's cube.) The design of Meffert's Gear Cube is very intriguing. The challenge is similar in difficulty to Rubik's Cube.

The gears travel smoothly. Recommended for ages 10 and older.

Pathwords Puzzle Wordsearch-Boggle-Tetris Come together

Words lovers as well as challenge seekers are sure to enjoy the puzzles presented with Think Fun's new 2011 puzzle called "Pathwords." Puzzlers are presented a grid of what appears to be random letters. Use selected color pieces when you find a word to cover the letters. Each grid may have three to eight words with no remaining letters. Search up, down, left, right (not diagonal) to identify words.

It is possible to find words that are not part of the actual puzzle. Choosing these words will not allow completion of the puzzle (because the remaining letters cannot make sufficient words, sufficient words in the shape of the playing pieces.)

Forty puzzle challenges are grouped into four ascending levels of difficulty. Each page in the manual represents a new puzzle.

Pathwords is very well designed. The colorful jelly shaped tetris pieces feel wonderful. The case has a sliding top. Pieces and manual store inside. The playing surface has smooth indentations which match the tetris shaped pieces; effectively keeping them positioned over words you discover.

Pathwords gets a A+ for physical design and an A+ for the puzzle style. Recommended for ages 12 to 137 years.