The creators of FunSquared Games are Mike, Kathleen and their four kids. They sell various types of games that are fun for the whole family. Prime Suspect and Squzzle and good for the puzzle lovers. Flipingo is good for budding readers.
Disclosure: I received games in exchange for an honest review.
In Prime Suspect, you use the clues to figure out which configuration to place the suspects within a 3×3 grid. You can see what it looks like at the top of this page. There are 9 suspects and you have to figure out the way they go based on those clues. It’s like Guess Who meets a Logic Puzzle and it’s fun! There are different levels to choose from so you can start easy and work yourself up to hard.
Squzzle stands for Square Puzzle and it is a puzzle where the pieces are all square. Yup that’s right. No typical jigsaw puzzle pieces here. So how do you know which way it goes? You use the repeating images on the squares to ensure that all the sides that touch another side are lined up. Outside sides don’t matter. However you don’t know WHICH sides are inside or outside.
It’s actually pretty hard! I could not figure it out. Or rather I don’t have the patience. However the puzzle lover on your list would LOVE it. We tried the music themed one but there are many different themes. When it says it may take hours, days or weeks to solve, it isn’t kidding!
Finally we were sent Flipingo. My homeschooled kids are well past learning to read however this would be an ideal game for game-schooling pre-readers. They flip over 9 random cards that have easy reader words on them and form a 3×3 grid. Then a parent or older helper flips over a card and reads the word. They can show the card too for very beginning readers. If they find a match they flip over their card while trying to get 3 in a row/column/diagonal.
I like this because sometimes early readers are older and this game doesn’t feel babyish.
Any of these games would make great gifts. You can shop FunSquared Games from their website.
