Quelf, Imagination Entertainment, $29.95; www.imaginationgames.com; ages 12 and up.

 

It’s obvious that the creators of this game, Wiggity Bang, had rip-roaring fun dreaming it up – and still more fun brainstorming the activities that make it so funny. The designers’ creative energy and craziness flow to the players like an electrical current!

 

In this game, the word “random” takes on new meaning with Quelf’s combination of stunts, quiz questions, show-offs, custom rules and ridiculous topics. Hundreds of hilarious game cards cover everything from barnyard sing-alongs to dancing prison guards; origami dinosaurs to spooky ghost stories; presidents to chickens; bellydancing to thumb wrestling … and more. Whether you win or lose, the non-stop laughter is what keeps everybody playing. Quelf is simultaneously bizarre, perplexing, occasionally embarrassing, generally silly, and never the same game twice.

“This game is soup to nuts in the kitchen sink!”
– Mom Tester

“Quelf is over-the-top fun.”
– Judge
 

by Ina Cumpiano, illustrated by Jose Ramirez; Children’s Book Press, 2008; $16.95; www.childrensbookpress.org. Presented in English and Spanish, the reader follows little Quinito from early morning until he falls asleep at night. Whether he’s at the playground or at home on a rainy day, each page celebrates a world of opposites in a way that appeals to all readers, “young or old, tall or short, messy or neat.”

 

For more bilingual fun, check out:

Bilingual Zingo! by ThinkFun 
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