(Thames & Kosmos $19.99) Here's a fun and challenging word game from Thames & Kosmos. Each player picks their "drink" colored dice (ice coffee, lemonade, grape soda or fruit punch), their plastic tumbler and drinking straw boards (where you build your words). For each round, a player takes a turn rolling the four dice that go into the ice cube tray. The goal is to create words that include the letters in the tray. You get points for matching the letters and for the length of

(SimplyFun $25) Here's a wonderful new math game from SimplyFun that's a great way to work on building confidence -- without feeling like a drill. The game play is easy to learn. You roll the die and then from the cards in your hand, you add cards to reach the "elevator number. The player that completes the number, gets to take all the cards. The player with the most cards at the end -- wins the game. We wish the elevator had dimension -- to feel more like an elevator - but

(Ageless Innovations and Hasbro $29.99 each) We all grew up with Yahtzee but now it has a casino twist. You play the standard game of...