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Games & Puzzles
Game – Mausritter
Take up the sword and don the whiskers of a brave mouse adventurer in Mausritter, a rules-light fantasy adventure roleplaying game. Character creation is speedy and simple, designed to get you playing as soon as possible. Your mouse is defined by their randomly assigned background, ability scores, and the gear they carry. A tactile card-based inventory system makes managing your gear a fun challenge. Mausritter is built on the chasis of Into the Odd, with new rules for setting, character generation, magical artefacts, and mouse-scale adventures. GMs are provided with procedures for running a mouse-scale sandbox, along with a bestiary and numerous tables for quickly creating adventures in the mouse kingdoms.
Game – Wavelength
Wavelength is a social guessing game in which two teams compete to read each other’s minds. Teams take turns rotating a dial to where they think a hidden bullseye is located on a spectrum. One of the players on your team — the Psychic — knows exactly where the bullseye is, and draws a card with a pair of binaries on it (such as: Job – Career, Rough – Smooth, Fantasy – Sci-Fi, Sad Song – Happy Song, etc). The Psychic must then provide a clue that is *conceptually* where the bullseye is located between those two binaries. For example, if the card this round is HOT-COLD and the bullseye is slightly to the “cold” side of the centre, the Psychic needs to give a clue somewhere in that region. Perhaps “salad”?
Game – Monopoly: Hello Kitty and friends
Buy, sell, and trade locations where all your favorite characters work and play in this all-new, custom version of the classic game featuring My Melody, Keroppi, Badtz-Maru, Chococat, Cinnamoroll, and many others. Seven collectible tokens feature Hello Kitty and Friends as the cutest vehicles, and Celebrations and Adventures are in store as you collect Kuromi’s Candy Shop, Doki-Doki’s Burger Shack, and more to be the last player standing to win!
Game – Catchphrase
This is a fully electronic re-implementation of the classic team word-guessing hot-potato game Catch Phrase! Players divide into two teams. One team selects the category and presses the start button. An audible timer beeps a count-down while the person holding the device tries to get their team to say the word or phrase on the screen. If they are successful, they hand the device to the next person on the opposite team. The goal of the round is to not be holding the device when the timer goes off — though those last furtive seconds can get dicey! When the timer goes off, the opposing team gets a point and (based on what version of the game you are playing) may also have a chance to steal the phrase for an extra point. The first team to reach seven points wins!
Puzzle – Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
This jigsaw puzzle captures the breathtaking beauty of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan. The towering, sandy dunes stand against the clear blue sky and the tranquil waters of Lake Michigan in Vintage poster Style, creating a stunning and serene landscape.
Instruments & Music
Bongo drums
The soft and warm tone of the buffalo head, combined with the Birch wood body and metallic rim, enhances sound projection, resulting in a clearer and brighter sound. Its neutral sound is suitable for a variety of music styles, including Cuban, Latin, world music, and jazz, making it an ideal choice for exploring different genres and rhythms.
Boombox with CD, cassette, and radio
The Sony CFD-S01 offers an all-in-one, portable way to go old school with your tunes! Highlights include AM/FM radio tuning as well as CD and cassette playback. In addition, the unit features Sony’s Mega Bass Sound System for deep bass tones. All controls are located on the top of the boombox, as is an LCD for track and station info. The convenient carry handle folds down when not in use.
Arts & Crafts
LED tracer opaque art projector
The tracer projector enlarges any design or pattern onto a wall or easel from 2 to 14 times the original size. The projected image can be traced and colored as desired. Use it for artwork sketches, outlining, posters, signs, small murals, home wall decor and decoration, quilt patterns, and more.
Calligraphy pen set
This set will enable you to develop your calligraphy skills to express your creativity through a wide range of lettering styles. The handy instruction and exercise booklets included with this set can be photocopied and offer a letter-by-letter introduction to the art of calligraphic writing as well as a lot of handy tips.
Art print – Feathering the nest by Qavavau Manumie
Qavavau Manumie was born in Brandon, Manitoba in 1958 where his mother, Paunichea, was hospitalized for treatment of tuberculosis. He returned to Cape Dorset as a very young child and has lived there since. Qavavau has demonstrated a range of stylistic abilities over the years – from the very literal to the more expressive. His work is idiosyncratic and often amusing in his depictions of Inuit legends and mythology, Arctic wildlife and contemporary aspects of Inuit life.
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