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Wonder crystals Blue

This game allows you to create a decoration, a natural blue crystal sculpture. This blue crystal offers during the day and thanks simply to the sun's rays, beautiful blue lights of beautiful blue shadows, which will delight, enthuse, exalt, fascinate the most blasé. In the evening, a spotlight, skilfully placed lighting will highlight this blue crystal.

This beautiful object can become the most beautiful decoration of your home, your interior, your buffet or your library. This blue crystal has its place in all interiors, whether modern, classic or otherwise, but also in an office or as a decoration in a shop. This structure will make the most beautiful effect and will be jealous of most visitors.

Patience, imagination and skill are essential qualities to make this blue crystal. It is clearly a creative game that will enchant not only the over-12s, but also everyone else. This crystal is an unusual gift idea, a gift idea for friends of nature, a Kdo idea to give to a friend, for his sister's birthday or, to celebrate mum or dad or whoever you like. This blue crystal is a very beautiful and unusual gift that will please everyone...

€11.90
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Wooden letters cubes for...

Wooden letters cubes have been around for many, many years and still have an appeal that has never gone out of fashion. A real game that has lasted through the ages without ever getting old - in short, a timeless game. A game that has always appealed to many children and sometimes teenagers. The recommended minimum age is 3 years.

This game allows you to learn to read letters, but also allows boys and girls to display a small message or to be able to make up their first names; for a friend, a friend thanks to these letters cubes which are very easy to thread. You have 4 threads and more than 300 small cubes. This game allows you to make several necklaces with different thoughts, different messages or any other communication etc. For the more imaginative, the more inventive, these letter cubes can also be used to make decorations. We can also point out that this game is made of wood, which is a big advantage today.

It is not possible to add any particular personalisation, however, this game can be considered as "customisable" thanks to the multiple possibilities offered by these wooden letter cubes.

This game is an original gift idea, an original birthday gift, original children's gifts, creative wooden game gifts, fun and playful kdo.

€11.90
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Wooden puzzle to customise



Fan of puzzles? Do you want to share your passion with family members, young or old? Do you want to please with a personalized fun gift? Do you want to surprise and entertain your loved ones? Order a personalized photo puzzle with a photo of your parents, your children, the person you love, your dog or your cat.

Or take a photo of your group of friends on their motorbike. Choosing a personalized puzzle with a photo has only advantages. It is above all a photo chosen by you, therefore a unique gift that causes emotion and a lot of pleasure. Moreover, the puzzle is an activity as calm as it is intelligent where patience, reflection and motor skills make it possible to realize it. It develops visual memory. But it is also a cooperative game: alone, with friends or family all can have fun doing it together.

Turn your family portrait into a game: Taking and undoing the photo of grandpa and grandma is too fun for your child. If he doesn't know how to do it well, you help him and step by step he will be proud to do it alone! Offering an invitation, a greeting card or a photo of the youngest ... in the form of a puzzle to undo and redo, is certainly an original idea, unconventional and unusual ... Once completed, the puzzle can be a precious image  to hook. Fun and playful kdo for birthday, Christmas kdo, family gift idea …

€14.90
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Dexterity Game Woody

The puzzles, an original wooden game gift, are from Greece. The first puzzle game dates back to the third century. This gift idea for teenagers, young people, mothers or men is an unusual gift that can be played alone or in groups. But what is a puzzle? It's a game that starts from a situation that is usually random and disordered and ends in a well-defined order, following predetermined rules.

There are different types of puzzles, geometric games (i.e. mathematical games), logogram games, numerical games, card games, so the best-known puzzle is undoubtedly success, etc... But the best-known puzzles are the Puzzle and the Rubik's Cube...

The first puzzles were called "Stomachion", a square game divided into 14 parts, which had to be put together in a predetermined order and could be combined in many different shapes. Puzzles were very popular at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. 

Professor Hoffmann published a book with the title: "Puzzles old and new." It described 40 puzzles with all the secret mechanical details. This puzzle book has become a reference for this exciting type of game. Wood is undoubtedly the most suitable material for puzzles, despite the fact that it is easy to work with, such as plastic.

€15.90
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Veterinarian's Kit

Many children want to become veterinarians when they grow up. But why wait?

With this vet case, children can have fun imitating adult vets and checking their favourite cuddly toys, who we are sure will get sick like everyone else. In this suitcase, the children have a syringe, a stethoscope, a thermometer, forceps and creams. These medical utensils make it possible to have fun and to treat the cuddly friends of the little animal doctor, of which I am sure there are often quite a few. All these "medical" instruments are well stored in a very functional suitcase and easily transportable for diagnoses when travelling to his or her auntie's or godmother's house or to a friend's house.

This vet's kit is an opportunity to explain to children the usefulness of the different medical instruments contained in this very nice vet's suitcase and thus to familiarise them with and de-dramatise a visit to the real vet with the family's dog or cat.

This case is the ideal gift for games and toys for budding vets, it is also an original gift idea that will easily find its place in the panoply of the perfect, small, novice vet. This vet case is a birthday gift idea for our little ones, an animal friendly gift.

€21.90
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Spillikins giant

The Mikado is for those who do not know, a game consisting of many chopsticks, which are painted in several colours, each colour having a different value. The first step of the game is to gather all the chopsticks vertically and on their tips. Then you release them so that the pile is as untidy as possible and the chopsticks are nested on top of each other. Then the game consists of removing one stick at a time from the pile, but the main goal is not to move the other sticks.... You can remove one stick above or below the pile.

If unluckily you move the other sticks you immediately pass your turn and the opponent can play. You can continue to remove sticks until you have moved one or more other sticks.

At the end of the game, the points accumulated are added up, so if you have managed to take the sticks worth the most points by taking the most badly placed but most valuable sticks you will be declared the winner. 

Obviously, the added value of the game we offer is the size of the game which is Giant, so it is a game to offer as an original gift, an unusual gift as a kdo idea for a young person, a perfect board game gift. A birthday gift idea for older children.  

€21.90
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Classic 4 in 1 games





5 MOMENTS THAT MARKED THE HISTORY OF CHESS


1. The coronation of the queen: In 1450, chess knew the coronation of the queen. To make the games faster, it was decided to allow the queen to go as far as desired and in all directions.



2 Staunton pieces: Howard Staunton, who was a great chess player, had unique pieces built. These pieces are still used today as a world standard in his name. 



3. The clock: In 1861, the first chess clocks appeared, making the games much faster and more dynamic, and therefore, much more competitive.


4. The first world champion: Wilhelm Steinitz is the first world champion in 1886.



5. the age of silicon: IBM creates a computer capable of beating the world champion of the time, Garry Kasparov, in 1989.


Chess game as a tool for reconstruction

Throughout history, games and sports have helped humanity survive times of crisis by reducing anxiety and improving mental health. In 2020, while restrictions imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19 have severely limited most of these activities, chess has shown remarkable resilience, adaptability and convening power in times of pandemic.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, general interest in chess has doubled, with an increase in the number of players gathering to participate in chess events on online platforms.

€22.90
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Windmill and solitaire games

Some fun facts about the chess game



- The number of possible moves of a knight is 122 million.


- During the Second World War, many code breakers were chess players. So it is a question of arithmetic in both fields.


- The expression "checkmate" comes from the Persian expression "Shah mate", which literally means "the king is dead".


- In theory, the longest chess game has 5,949 possible moves. In practice, the longest game of all time was played in 1989 by Nikolic and Arsovic. It lasted 269 moves and ended in a draw. 


- According to the American Chess Association, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000.00 0,000,000 ways to play the first 10 moves of a game, which gives you many opportunities to surprise your opponent


-Chess legend Nona Gaprindashvili is suing Netflix for $5 million, accusing the production of lying about her story in the series The Queen's Game.


- Russia's first tsar, Ivan the Terrible, died in front of a chessboard in 1584 while preparing to fight Boris Godunov. This story is known thanks to the English ambassador of the time who reported the fact to Queen Elizabeth I, herself a great chess player.

€26.90
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Emergency Doctor's Kit

This children's first aid kit contains standard medical equipment and is realistic and virtually identical to what is found in many first aid services, doctors' surgeries and doctors' offices.

Becoming a doctor is often one of the jobs that children dream of doing when they grow up.

In France, the dream jobs for boys are, in order of preference: aeroplane or helicopter pilot, engineer, scientist and in fourth place: "Doctor, nurse or emergency doctor.

The jobs that girls dream of are first: teacher and then doctor, nurse or emergency doctor. The tastes of young Belgians must certainly be similar to those of French children. The profession of doctor is still a dream for young girls and boys. In Belgium and France, the studies to become a doctor of medicine last from 9 to 12 years (for the specialisations).

Of course this doctor's case is only a toy for children, but this medical case is an opportunity to imagine oneself practising a beautiful profession and will perhaps give the desire to become a doctor. This first aid case is a birthday gift idea, a birthday gift for a child, girl or boy, an original gift for the holidays, in short an original gift idea for children.

€29.90
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Crazy golf mole

Me, I am Tiger woods! I am Jack Nicklaus... This is how a game of minigolf could start between two young friends in the living room, protected from the winter bad weather or at any other time of free time. So it's an original idea for a birthday, an end of year party. It should be noted that the miniature golf course was invented in 1867 to allow women to try their hand at golf, a golf course previously reserved for men.

However, miniature golf courses did not appear in geometric format and were mostly made on artificial courses with mostly carpet coverings around the beginning of the twentieth century. Named "Golstacle" in the press, the magazine "The Illustrated London News" referred to it in the magazine "The Illustrated London News" on the 8th of June one thousand nine hundred and twelve. 

This game of miniature golf has many elements to make a miniature golf course to entertain oneself when one has some time or when a friend comes to the house. This game will undoubtedly make you want to try out the closest miniature golf course to your home. The qualities to play mini golf are self-control, patience, concentration, but often a little luck... However, keep your China vases and crystal vases away from golf balls. 

€29.90
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Croquet

The origin of croquet can be traced back to the game of pall-mall which was played in the French countryside in the Middle Ages. It was Louis XIV who had it transferred to the table in his palace so that it could be played even in winter and the game would then have become billiards. The English copied the game around 1300 and, after many developments, it became golf in Scotland and croquet in Ireland. Popularised during the second half of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, contemporary croquet is mainly practised by Anglo-Saxons: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, etc.

For many of us, this croquet game seems to be just a pleasant pastime and an ideal wooden game idea to offer as a birthday present for dad or as a fun gift for young people. Croquet also brings enthusiasts together in a Belgian federation that was founded in 1994 and which organises tournaments.

Croquet can be played alone or in teams, most often on grass, but sometimes on the beach (sand) and even on ice. Teams range from two to eight players. The aim is to make the wooden ball go through the field as quickly as possible by advancing it with a mallet. The ball must follow a precise course, delimited by hoops, under which the ball must pass. The courses differ according to the number of hoops to be crossed, the direction of the course, etc. A fun outdoor game to play with family or friends. 

€31.90
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Chess and Backgammon

This wooden game box offers the possibility to play with the two board games most practiced in many families: chess and jacquet.

This box is portable thanks to its handle. It is a remarkable and practical gift that will please the lovers of wooden board games. The box is carefully worked with marquetry in the lid.  The learning of the backgammon game is quite fast. The goal of the game is to be the first to have brought all his pieces to his camp, called jan, and to have taken them out of the board one by one. Backgammon is a game in which luck intervenes and where strategy and experience are paramount. 

While having fun, the game of chess allows children and adults to develop their concentration, creativity, and improve their strategy and memory. It is the king of the board game and has many followers all over the world. It is fairly easy to learn. The chess game is played on the outside of the box. All the pieces, except the king, can be taken from each other. The object of the game is to make the king mate because the king is threatened with capture at the next move and no parry is possible to avoid it. 

A fun gift for the whole family, from classic games that are passed down from generation to generation, to rules known by everyone, from children to grandparents. Offer these wooden board games, an entertaining gift for moments of relaxation and conviviality.

€42.90
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