Toy Insider’s Chief Toy Officer Laurie Schacht joined NBC 5 in Dallas to show off toys to make family game night the best night of the week. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below, and for the complete rundown of the best gifts of the holiday season, check out our complete Toy Insider Holiday Gift Guide.
DINOBYTES BATTLE ARENA
Kids can face off with their DinoBytes figures in this battle arena. Kids just put the dinosaurs into the ring and press the button to get the dinosaur to lunge. The first dino to knock the other dino’s helmet off wins.
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PIGS ON TRAMPOLINES
Players use the included mini trampolines to bounce pigs into the pig pen and try to land them in the mud puddle. Every pig that players land in the puddle earns them a mud pie. Whoever has the most mud pies in the end wins the game.
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MONOPOLY SCRABBLE
This game combines elements of the Monopoly game with the crossword-building play of Scrabble. In place of rolling dice to move around the board, players build words and move ahead by their score. Features custom Community Chest and Chance cards.
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BY THE BOOK
In this single-player game, kids will draw one of 40 challenge cards indicating which books they must use and how many of those books they must place horizontally. Then they will try to build a balanced bookshelf following that prompt.
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK GRIZZLY BEAR GAMES PLAY SET
Pretend to be a hungry bear and play bear food catching, racing, and search-and-find games with this playful introduction to Yellowstone National Park. Plush versions of some of grizzly bears’ favorite snacks stick to self-stick hook-and-loop tabs on bear paw gloves and the snout of strap-on bear heads.
