Gastonia Times

Gallop to a victory. This horseracing board game has you race against other jockeys to reach the finish line first. It combines dice, cards, and little pegged horses that are full of nostalgic charm. The wooden board is handcrafted in Missouri and is made with the mission to bring families together for an old-school (and fun) screen-free game night.

This super smart keyboard will teach you how to play—like an effective, patient teacher. Sync your device to the keyboard and your hands to the keys, where LED lights integrate seamlessly with the screen and guide you with step-by-step and hand-by-hand instructions. Pick from the library of videos and digital sheet music as you make your way from Twinkle Twinkle to one of Mozart’s concertos. You can stop, rewind, and slow down whenever you want. And when you’re not practicing, use your keyboard as a speaker to stream music.

This fresh take on a classic strategy board game pits attackers and defenders against each other with the goal of outsmarting the competition and capturing the castle. The wooden board is handcrafted in Missouri and is made with the mission to bring families together for a nostalgic (and fun) screen-free game night.

Quoridor is a game of strategy that sounds simple enough: make it to the other side of the board. But with each turn, your opponent can move a pawn or position a wall to slow down your advance. Made of colorful, durable wood that’s equally inviting to look at or play.

The GraviTrax starter set is the perfect rolling, spinning, racing, and jumping-off point for kid engineers. The marble run building set has over 100 pieces and nine construction plans to put into action, or kids can create their own signature twisting and turning race track while honing early STEM skills with concepts like gravity, trajectory, and force.