Staff Favorites: Kids Games

Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza

2-8 players | 10-30 min | ages 8+ | Dolphin Hat Games

Our most popular kids game! Card slapping, action packed, fun little card game that kids just adore and fun to play with the whole family. Be the first to get rid of all your cards and slap first to win!

Animal Upon Animal

2-4 players | 15 min | ages 4+

Crocodiles, frilled lizards, sheep, toucans and monkeys, hedgehogs and snakes... you'll never find such a motley mix of animals in any other game. Who is the most skillful at stacking and will be the first left without any animals? The entertaining stacking game was first released in 2005 and has since sold over 600,000 copies!

  • A true HABA classic made in Germany, this game is fun for the whole family and a favorite for Adult Game night too!

  • Players race each other to be the first to place all of their wooden animals upon the animal pile before any of the other players.

  • A roll of the die tells the players how many animals can be placed or whether they can add to the alligator base. This game fosters hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.

  • One of HABA's most popular games, this game is a winner of the Major Fun! Award and recipient of the Mr. Dad Seal of Approval.

Rhino Hero

2-4 players | 5-15 min | ages 5+

What is that? Is that a rhino climbing up the wall? Rhino Hero is out and about again. The superhero from the animal world fearlessly scales the highest houses looking for burglars and rogues. He is as strong as a lion and as smart as a fox. However, he is also as heavy as a rhinoceros. So when this hero is around, even the most robust tower may start to wobble.

A Fun and Parent-Approved Rhino Game

Can you help this superhero accomplish his wobbly construction mission and build a skyscraper as tall and solid as possible? Play this heroic 3D card tower game together!

  • This rhino game has won these prestigious awards: Major Fun! Award, Mr. Dad Seal of Approval, PTPA - Parent Tested - Parent Approved

Zombie Kidz Evolution

2-4 players | 5 - 15 min | ages 7+

Zombie Kidz Evolution is the first "legacy"-style game for kids, with basic gameplay similar to the 2013 title Zombie Kidz — but things will quickly evolve!

In the game, the young players are at school when zombies start to attack, infiltrating the entryways, then barring the way to classrooms. Players move through rooms and entryways to eliminate zombies and keep the zombie reserve full. If a zombie must enter the school but none are available, then the school has been overrun and the players lose. To win the game, players need to lock each of the four entryways as apparently the custodian has abandoned the post and given up the school for lost.

As players get better, they can complete missions, track their development through a trophy-sticker system reminiscent of video games, and open envelopes that contain new material for the game, upping the challenge they face while also providing them with new powers and new heroes as well.

Coconuts

2-4 players | 20 min | ages 6+

In the dexterity game Coconuts, players launch coconuts toward a field of cups in the middle of the playing area. Land in a cup, and you get to stack it on your player board; land in a cup on someone else's board, and you get to move it to yours. By playing special "Monkey King Magic" cards, you can force opponents to shoot blind, take long shots, or otherwise bollix their efforts to cup a coconut. Whoever first completes a pyramid of six cups on his player board wins!

Kevin Kerkhof