Travel Games for Big Thinkers: More Than 120 Fun Puzzles for Kids Aged 8 and Above (Solve It!) by Collins Kids

Travel Games for Big Thinkers: More Than 120 Fun Puzzles for Kids Aged 8 and Above (Solve It!) Reviews

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  mac (thegrimread.r)

  I was actually quite disappointed with this to begin with, the first half is full of two-player games such as noughts and crosses, a Wordle type game, connect four and hangman (dancing man in this book) and none of those games need a printed book to play. I played those games countless times while travelling using just a notebook. I suppose for younger kids it would be easier as they don't have to draw out the templates, but I wouldn't buy a book solely for them.
  
  The one-player section is better. There's a varied selection of travel related crosswords, wordsearches, spot the difference, those kind of puzzles. The difficulty goes up as you go through them but none of them are too hard I don't think. If the entire book was these I'd be more inclined to recommend it.
  
  Just to note, I did notice a mistake on page 102, Aweet instead of Sweet. I can't promise there aren't more but I didn't notice while completing any of the rest of the puzzles.
  
  ARC courtesy of NetGalley.
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  joyce w. laudon

  es, we live in a world of computers and i pads but sometimes it can be nice to see a kid engage with a pencil and paper game book. Here is a good one that is part of a series. It is well organized with the first part of the book including two player activities such as dancing man (awfully called hangman in the past) or dots, for example, and the second half of the book including one player puzzles such as sudoku and word searches. This would make a great item to pack before taking your child on a trip.
  
  Many thanks to NetGalley and Collins Reference for this title. All opinions are my own.