Top 10 Educational Games at Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble is a great place to find educational games of all sorts, including vocabulary games and math games. Below you will find a list of the best games to both educate and entertain your children:

1. Bananagrams

Make words out of the lettered tiles and put them together crossword style. This game teaches not just word building but also fast thinking, as there are no turns. Instead everyone plays at once.

2. The Scrambled States of America

Children learn everything there is to know about American geography through riddles, puzzles, and more.

3. Metaforms

This game teaches logic by fitting shapes together on a grid to make different shapes, following the clues provided.

4. Blokus

The object of this game is to get rid of all your pieces by placing them on the board. Pieces can only be placed if they touch at least one other piece of the same color. Blokus teaches strategy, logic, and spatial perception.

5. What Time Is It?

This game teaches young children how to tell the time on both old-fashioned and modern digital clocks by having them set different times on their cardboard game clocks.

6. Silly Sentences

This game consists of a bunch of cards with words and pictures on them. Children are taught to make sentences by places the cards next to each other in ways that make sense.

7. What’s Gnu?

Children race each other to spell three letter words out of the letters they are given in this game.

8. 4-Way Countdown

Players use their math skills on the numbers that come up on the dice in this fun math game. The first to complete all 10 challenges wins.

9. Equate

Winning this game is accomplished by placing numbers and mathematical operators crosswords style on the board in ways that make mathematical sense. This game develops not just math skills but also strategy.

10. Zoologic

Children learn logic and problem-solving skills by placing animal and food cards on the board without placing animals next to their favorite foods or rivals.