Looking for some fun games to play with the family this holiday season? Toy Insider’s Chief Toy Officer Laurie Schacht stopped by Fox in Fort Myers to show off some fun games the whole family can play. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below, and for the complete rundown of the best toys of the holiday season, be sure to check our complete Toy Insider Holiday Gift Guide.
- Are you ready for a battle between lizards? Introducing Tic Tac Tongue from YULU! Be quick to lick!
- Put on the lizard mask and get ready for a game of skill and speed. One player flips over a number card. The other two players face off to knock down the correct insect card. The lizard that knocks down the most insects the fastest wins!
- Each Tic Tac Tongue game comes with four lizard masks with washable mouthpieces and tongues, 10 target cards, 10 game cards, and game rules.
- Age: 4+
- MSRP: $17.99
- Available: Target
FRYIN FLYIN DONUTS (MAYA TOYS)
- Fryin Flyin Donuts is the new preschool game that is fun for the whole family! Every kid has an affinity for donuts and will love playing the swirling, twirling, frantically fun donut game!
- Simply throw your donuts into the fryer and be the first player to fly all your donuts into the baker’s box to win the game!
- Two-player game
- Age: 4+
- MSRP: $19.99
- Available: Amazon
- It’s feeding time! Launch squishy fish through the mouth of the Big Fish- to the player on the other side in this two player game.
- Both players race to simultaneously clear their side of all fish to win.
- Any fish that arrive on one side must be sent back before that player can win, so they have to keep launching as fast as they can.
- Ages: 4+
- MSRP: $14.99
- Available: All major retailers (Amazon, Target, Walmart)
- This nerve-wracking bead-stacking game teaches kids about balance and weight while refining their fine motor skills.
- Appealing to both children and parents, this strategy game is fun for the whole family!
- To win Tumball, carefully place all your white beads on top of the suspended colorful balls using the wand. With every bead you add, the colorful balls become more unstable. If you push your luck too far or make one false move…TUMBALL!
- You must add the fallen beads to your collection. Get rid of all your beads to win!
- The package includes 14 colored balls, 24 white beads, 7 hangers, 4 wands, 2 assembly rings, 1 base, 1 arm, 1 hook, 1 ring and Instructions.
- Ages: 5+
- MSRP: $24.99
- Available: Amazon, Walmart, Meijer, Fred Meyer, Learning Express
- Snot It is the gross game of boogey fun! To start, each player puts on a pair of snot glasses with icky sticky snot dripping from them
- When it’s your turn, spin the spinner to find out which color boogers you need to try to pick up from the booger bowl
- Wind up the booger bowl and let it spin—then try to pick up the right boogers using only your sticky snot! You only get to keep your boogers if you pick up exactly what you spun.
- Beware the purple boogers! If someone accidentally picks one up, everyone has to yell “SNOT IT!” as quick as they can. The first player to yell keeps the purple booger, while the last player must return one of their boogers to the bowl
- The first player to collect 10 boogers wins!
- Ages: 6+
- MSRP: $19.99
- Available: Amazon
- Introducing Shock Box, an all-new electronic reaction game from Zing that challenges focus, reaction, and speed.
- Once the light turns from red to green, players have to be the quickest to hit their controller button—or else you’ll be shocked!
- To start, each player takes hold of a controller. Push the start button on the base to activate suspenseful Shock Box music and a red blinking light. When the red light turns green, press the button your controller as quickly as possible.
- If they’re not the first to hit the button, players will feel a thrilling shock, zapping them out of the game!
- If you’re quick enough to hit the button before the other players, you’re safe—for this round at least.
- Shock Box has variable shock control with two different levels of intensity and four game modes, making each round a more shocking surprise.
- Record your favorite moments of shock and share it on social media using #ShockBoxChallenge.
- Ages: 14+
- MSRP: $29.99
- Available: Amazon, zing.store
