We were selected to host a Smart Games party thanks to Tryazon and Smart Games USA. These games are designed to help stimulate brain activity and they sure do what they say. We have been discussing starting up a family game night so this acceptance arrived just in time to get us started. The Smart Games website states "Have fun exercising your brain with SmartGames! Utilize skills ranging from spatial insight to pattern recognition, while improving your problem solving abilities and your memory.
Each Smart Game is carefully designed and produced using quality materials that last. And with so many included challenges, each game can be replayed over and over again.
Challenges are divided into 4 or 5 levels of difficulty. You start with the easiest challenges. Gradually, the challenges get more difficult, so that they stay interesting and fun."
I introduced each of the games by opening up each of them and reading the instructions along with the party guide. Then, because each of the games were 1-2 player at most, we split into groups and each played different games. Then we switched so that each group had a turn with each game. This worked out well and gave each person a chance to play each game and figure out which would be beneficial and/or fun for their family.
In the party pack we received:
2 Color Code Games
2 Little Red Riding Hood Games
and
2 IQ Puzzler games
We also received a coupon code to save a few dollars should we or any of our guests decide to purchase more of these games.
Each of these games are at most a 2 player game so we broke into groups to play each game then switched so that everyone attending would have a turn with each game. We definitely did have fun and were using our brain power to play these games but some were definitely easier than others even at the most difficult levels, this made it difficult to keep some of the kids engaged in their own game while waiting for another game to open up.
I think the favorite game was the IQ puzzler, even at the Junior level it became very difficult even for the adults to solve the puzzle. I heard some comment that it would be a great stress reliever to play this game and that it would be good for road trips because it is so compact.
We also really liked the Color Code game, it was slightly easier than the IQ game but was still very fun at the difficult levels.
Little Red Riding Hood Deluxe: The Little Red Riding hood game was fun but I would say it was also the easiest, my son had fun playing it but got bored quickly and wanted to play the other games. My husband commented that the Little Red Riding Hood game would have been more fun and would have taken more time and interest had the board been bigger and contained more pieces to place. This game is definitely geared to a younger crowd, I would say more around the 3-5 year age range. I think with all of the electronics that these kids play, that by the time they are closer to 6 or 7 years old their brains have already surpassed this level of game play for the most part. To make it more exciting my son and I made up some of our own rules for this game, it is designed to be a 1 player game but we decided to make it 2 players; I pretended to be Little Red Riding Hood while my son pretended to be the wolf. We then would race to place the pieces and make it to the house while I continued to yell “Don’t Eat My Grandma!!!” My son found this very funny and it made the game more exciting for the both of us.
Color Code: This game was fun, it consisted of many colored pieces that you needed to place correctly to match the image that was provided in the booklet. Myself and my sister played this game and at first she thought that it was too easy and was not having much fun so we decided to go to the back of the book and play the expert level. At this level we did have quite a bit of fun and we also struggled a bit on some of them what definitely made it more exciting. I think this game would be the perfect transition for my son from the Little Red Riding Hood game to something that is a little more difficult for him. I also thought this game was just OK for adults, not very difficult but was OK.
IQ Puzzler: This game was by far everyone’s favorite game of the evening. This game was great for both adults and children and was much more difficult than the other games from the very beginning (at the easiest levels). My mom loved this game the most and has asked for it for Christmas as a present so I have ordered an additional one for her. We had tons of fun playing this game and while one personplayed others would sit around watching trying to figure it out themselves just from looking at it. We also liked that this game was small and compact so that it could easily be taken on road trips or on an air plane. This game is absolutely perfect for any age and seems to seems to require the greatest amount of brain power in comparison to the other games we received and played. I noticed on the website that they have a number of games that are very similar to this one but with different shaped pieces so I think we may be ordering a couple of the others that looks like this one.Hashtags: #Tryazon #SmartGamesUSA @SmartGamesUSA
Check out Tryazon here for your chance to host a party of your own: https://www.tryazon.com/
Check out Smart Games USA here, I will definitely be checking out some of the other products for our family and you should too. http://www.smartgamesusa.com/
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