The Games and Puzzles That'll Keep Your Kids Busy (and Learning!) in 2018

Roll & Play: Your Child's First Game ($20) is the perfect game for your littlest child, as it has no winners or losers, just encourages learning and fun.

Age it's recommended for: 18 months and up

Kid O Pattern Stacker Toy Set ($20, originally $30) helps toddlers develop motor skills, dexterity, shape recognition, spatial relations, and sequencing skills.

Age it's recommended for: 2 and up

Alex Toys Future Coders Bunny Trails ($27) encourages toddlers to learn to code by figuring out how to help the bunny forge a path to get to its carrot.

Age it's recommended for: 3 and up

Spin Master's Soggy Doggy ($15) requires players to
race around the game board before Soggy Doggy starts shaking the water off.

Age it's recommended for: 3 and up

The large pieces of the 24 by 36-inch Melissa & Doug Solar System Floor Puzzle ($12) make it easier for small hands to place the pieces together. Plus, it'll make for an awesome play surface once it's finished!

Age it's recommended for: 3 and up

Robot Face Race ($20) requires players to help an inventor find all the heads that correspond with their 12 robot creations, which involves searching for matching features on the game board.

Age it's recommended for: 4 and up

The Let's Go Code! Activity Set ($35) encourages coding skills in younger kids.

Age it's recommended for: 5 and up

The Crocodile Creek Discover America Giant Map Puzzle ($15) will work your little one's mind while teaching them where all the states belong on the map.

Age it's recommended for: 5 and up

Hape Amazing Animal Alphabet ($40) is a stunningly beautiful puzzle that can help younger kids learn all the names of animals and encourages older kids to put the animals (of which there is one starting with each letter of the alphabet) in alphabetical order.

Age it's recommended for: 5 and up

Fat Brain Toy Co. Box & Balls ($33) allow kids to problem-solve while working on fine motor skills through a series of challenges.

Age it's recommended for: 5 and up

Spin Master's Beat the Parents Trivia Game ($15) is a fun-filled kids vs. parents trivia game perfect for family game nights.

Age it's recommended for: 6 and up

The Osmo Starter Kit ($80) lets children play directed games where they get to play with puzzles, letters, and shapes on their iPad.

Age it's recommended for: 6 and up

This spy game, Spy Code Break Free Board Game ($20), involves breaking out of four interlocking handcuffs with the use of speedy fine motor skills.

Age it's recommended for: 6 and up

In Go Gelato ($15), players must race their friends to see who can match their customers' orders first.

Age it's recommended for: 6 and up

Break into the safe by using your mathematical deduction skills and memory in Safe Breaker Board Game ($25).

Age it's recommended for: 6 and up

Spin Master's Hedbanz ($12) game is a goofy "What Am I?" game that requires players to ask yes or no questions to other players in order to figure out the word/cartoon item on the headband they're wearing.

Age it's recommended for: 7 and up

Educational Insights Smash Pong! ($22) helps kids learn about physics as they attempt to shoot balls into a bucket.

Age it's recommended for: 7 and up

The Utter Nonsense Family Board Game ($25) is a kid-friendly version of the adult game, which requires players to put on different accents to say silly phrases.

Age it's recommended for: 8 and up

Dr. Microbe ($16, originally $22) encourages logic and science skills through the fun and colorful game.

Age it's recommended for: 8 and up

Pucket ($40) challenges players to be quick and accurate while shooting pucks into their opponent's side of the board.

Age it's recommended for: 8 and up

From National Geographic, Brain Games Kids ($20) features a number of logic, vision, physical coordination, and language challenges that put players' minds and bodies to the test.

Age it's recommended for: 8 and up

Kids can work on their science, logic, and matching skills with Dr. Beaker Science Speed Logic Board Game ($17, originally $23).

Age it's recommended for: 8 and up

Encourage your kids to work on their physics and problem-solving with the Rube Goldberg — The Acrobat Challenge ($15).

Age it's recommended for: 8 and up

Based off the adult version, Hasbro Speak Out Kids Vs Parents Board Game ($20) has players wear a mouthpiece while speaking a phrase while the other players guess what they're attempting to say.

Age it's recommended for: 8 and up

Game For Fame ($20) is a funny party game that has players perform hilarious challenges to get them points, helping them rise to fame.

Age it's recommended for: 10 and up

This mind-bending 3D Harry Potter Hogwarts Great Hall Puzzle ($50) can't be simply put together on a flat surface. The 3-dimensional aspect of it will require kids to think outside the box when it comes to where all the pieces of Hogwarts Castle go.

Age it's recommended for: 14 and up