SECTOR GUIDE SPECIAL: JUMBO


Jumbo’s Playlab collection features a world full of cute characters and fun challenges. It includes a collection of games and puzzles which are designed for children aged from two to six years. Playlab focuses on


developing reading, writing and counting skills. However, it also comes with the additional benefi t of encouraging shared and independent play. The Playlab puzzles have been designed to develop a child’s spatial recognition, fi ne motor skills and hand- eye coordination. The iLearn games range helps develop reading, writing and counting skills to encourage children to practice independently. Meanwhile, the Playlab Christmas puzzle range aims to keep youngsters entertained during the festive period. Elsewhere, Jumbo’s Goula


brand boasts a high quality range of wooden jigsaw


MAPS TOYS


This year Maps Toys is introducing the award- winning puzzle Cool Circuits, a brain-teasing game designed to challenge players of all ages. Cool Circuits features a chunky white circuit board and eight fl uorescent 3D puzzle pieces. Players must solve the


40 diff erent challenges included, starting off with simple tasks before moving on to the ‘practically impossible’ ones.


Gamers choose a puzzle


card and have to create the circuit loop shown. If the board fl ashes and


illuminates with lights and music, the circuit has been completed correctly. The game aids abstract thinking and spatial reasoning and Maps Toys ‘defies you not to get hooked’. Also new for Q4 is Hover Shot, a game which tests players’ shooting skills with pinpoint accuracy. Each gun can hold three foam darts. The Hover Shot includes a battery-operated base,


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which features fi ve stands holding balls. Once the airfl ow is turned on, the balls bob up and down in the air ready for players to fi re at.


Gamers can also turn the lights out and switch the game to night mode to play with glowing balls. 01483 776 006


My favourite game…


Dirk Kiefer, MD, Maps Toys


“My whole family loved to play Cluedo. It used to get quite heated with us all trying to guess ‘whodunit’. I also love unusual games such as Settlers of Catan which add a whole new dimension to board games.”


puzzles, construction toys and educational games for children aged from two years and up. Goula’s extensive


range of educational and eye-catching puzzles are designed to introduce youngsters to puzzles for the first time.


The selection of wooden peg themes spans farm, jungle, countryside, pet and sea animal. The new Goula 3-Levels puzzles allow children to discover how chickens, frogs and butterflies are ‘born’ by removing puzzle pieces in three stages and then reassembling the puzzle step by step. Also new is the Goula


Calendar Clock. It is a simple wooden clock and calendar all-in- one that helps children to learn the different months and seasons in the year, as well as weather conditions, days in a week and times of day. 01707 289289


MARBEL


Wooden toy brand Hape boasts a large range of children’s games and puzzles. For younger


children, there are colourful wooden stackers, building blocks, fi rst pounders and shape sorting activities and puzzles. Older


children can get involved with a range of small maze puzzles right through to larger table top mazes that require more concentration to complete.


On the educational side, a selection of Hape puzzles like the alphabet and numbers matching puzzles have been created to help develop memory, counting and spelling skills.


Hape also has a bamboo


range of games and puzzles including the Pallina multi-player game. Pallina is a bamboo cage that gets fi lled with colour coded sticks, with balls


placed on top. Children must then take it in turns to remove their sticks without the balls falling through. Marble fans are also


catered for by Hape’s Quadrilla: a range of marble runs in varying sizes which can be built and rebuilt into diff erent designs. The range even


encompasses musical tracks that play a tune as the marbles hit various pieces of the run as they fall through. 0845 6000 286


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