Toys and games

Dice are used in many games. The best known are played with 2 dice like Craps, with 3 dice like 421 or with 5 dice like Yahtzee or Yams. Reiner Knizia, a world-renowned German game designer, reports that he has found 150 different dice games, which he explains in his book Dice Games Properly. Dice were found in the Indus civilisation in 2400 BC. Dice identical to those we know today have been found, with 6 sides and 6 small holes. Generally cubic with 6 sides usually numbered from 1 to 6 and therefore the values of the opposite sides is equal to 7. Dice have also been used as objects of divination. The Greeks claimed to be the originators of dice. According to Sophocles, the dice were invented by Palamedes, a Greek hero in Troy during the siege. Archaeologists have found dice in Troy. Ancient Greek vases also show Trojan war heroes playing dice. However, the dice we offer are larger than usual. These giant dice will please many players, both young and old. These dice are therefore perfect as birthday presents or as gifts for a party with friends. An original wooden game gift, to learn many dice games and have hours of fun.

This safari domino is for children who love animals, but especially animals that they only meet in zoos here in Europe. Children are often very curious to know the names of all these animals. The animals on the dominoes are drawings of the most famous animals: zebras, elephants, giraffes, etc. Animals from Africa that they have never seen before. Animals from Africa that we Europeans can meet on a long journey. The word safari originally referred to an exploration on land. The word safari also referred to a hunt for big game in Africa, which was also called "trophy hunting". Today, when we talk about safari, we are most often talking about a tourist trip to the various national parks in Southern Africa (South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique) or in East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya). However, the photo safari remains a privilege that is often beyond the financial reach of many people. The safari domino is played in the same way as the classic domino with numbers: the rules are exactly the same. This safari domino makes you want to learn to play dominoes, because it is made of wood and the animals are brightly coloured. This safari domino is a birthday gift for young boys or girls. A birthday gift idea to offer to a friend who is passionate about animals, an original Santa Claus gift. An original gift idea for a child, an idea for an animal lover.

This manual game of skill requires calmness and concentration, and also provokes moments of suspense and self-doubt. The game consists of removing the sticks from the tower, one after the other, after the tower has been erected, without of course knocking the tower down. The dice indicates which stick should be removed, as each stick has a number. This makes the game more difficult and immediately makes it look less easy than it seems. This is a game of skill for young and old, for children as well as for parents or grandparents who play with their (grand)children whenever they have some free time, during the holidays or at any other time. The number tower should of course be placed on a flat surface indoors or outdoors. This game is fun when you build the tower, but also when you try to keep the tower from collapsing. This game is often kept for a long time and is made of wood, which makes it durable. For the little ones, the first step is just to enjoy building the tower or even to have fun with other constructions. This game of skill is part of the original fun gifts, original wooden game gifts, gifts ideas games and toys. This figure tower is a funny birthday gift and an original gift for children. A fun family game idea.

Do you know the board games: Pachisi (Indian), Patolli (Mesoamerican), Ludo and the little horses? You win! They have an apron (playing surface) in the shape of a cross. However, all these games have a filiation that goes back very far in the history of civilisations, although they are called differently. Some have similar rules like the Korean game: "Yunnori", of Chinese origin, but the game board is different. And these board games were eventually called Ludo in Great Britain and "petits chevaux" in France. They were introduced in the United States and France around 1936. However, the rules and the number of squares where the little horses move to pass and go around may not be the same depending on the size of the game and the dressing of the small horse games or Ludo. However, even if the rules of the small horses or even if the boards are different, the fun of the game is still there. Nowadays, the variations of Ludo pawns are very important; pirates, small animal, Lego etc. When I was little, I used to go to my grandparents' house very often and the game of little horses was one of the first board games I played with my grandfather. The Ludo "Islands of the pirates" is a good birthday present for the little ones who often like pirate stories and cartoons.

Tetris is without doubt the most addictive video game in the world. Almost everyone knows how to play Tetris, but how many people know its origin? The incredible history of Tetris is due to a Soviet engineer. This engineer created the game Tetris without knowing it and without being paid (the communist regime obliges.) for two eons (10 years) at the time of Perestroïka and at the time of the explosion of the sector of video games. Tetris is one of the first addictive games, a game that you can play for hours without eating while waiting to get a bar of 4 elements to see one or more lines disappear and then continue to try to erase the maximum number of lines and sometimes get the maximum number of points. There are also competitions, world championships of Tetris. The very official biography of Tetris, published by Pix’n Love, tells the story of this incredible series that takes us through the Cold War from communism to winning capitalism. We meet Soviet Russian engineers, rogue agents, Soviet bureaucrats, video game mavericks and psychologists turned psychopaths to get back to the basics of human inclinations for video games and gaming in general. The wooden game Tetris is a spatial orientation game for learning to combine shapes. This educational game is part of the gifts ideas games and toys, original gifts wooden games, original gifts children, unusual birthday gifts.

To play Ludo (small horses or dada in France, Belgium), you need to be four and have a dice and 4 counters, farm animals or small horses whose colour corresponds to the starting box. The colour is drawn at random before starting the game which runs in the same direction as the clockwise direction. To start the race in this little gift game, the participants must roll a 6, which then allows them to get out and stand right in front of the box. The number 6 allows them to play again. To progress on this game, gift ideas for children, participants must roll a dice and move their mount forward by the same amount. If you roll a 5, for example, and you arrive exactly on a square where there is already an opponent's pawn, this pawn will have to go back to its stable and start the game again and you will take its place on the board. The winner is the one who arrives first at the centre of this ideal board game gift and ideal birthday present, while crossing the ladder opposite his starting "box" at the end of a compulsory turn of the board. To climb up, the number indicated on the ladder must be achieved: One on the one, two on the two, etc. Obtaining a different number does not allow you to move your horse or, in this case, your farm animal forward. Who will win the race? The donkey, the sheep, the mouse or the cow? A nice gift for children who love animals.

The choice of images for the puzzles is infinite...It can be a landscape, a monument, a beautiful car. However, here, it cannot be said that this game meets the criteria of a simple puzzle. The puzzle is generally a game based on the principle of reconstructing an image, a flat or 3-dimensional object based on the initial image of the game before it is dislocated, the image that most often accompanies the puzzle. But here, it is you who imagine the image of the puzzle. Here is the original gift, the unusual gift, a gift that is both a game and a means of communication, a very good system to display a little message for mom's birthday from daddy or whoever you want. This puzzle can be used as a bulletin board for a party, for the proverb of the day, for a reminder or for a message for your lover(s) or any other announcement or note that you want to let the children, your partner or relatives know. Of course, this type of display already exists, but none of them is in colour and even less bright! This puzzle can also be used to start reading and writing. The bright, colourful cards are more motivating and fun than an often sad and unattractive black and white board. This puzzle can also be used to spread the mood of the moment, a stopwatch before an event such as: day-5 before the holidays... Moreover, the led lights are therefore good for the planet and your wallet...