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Not only does ThinkFun have the best fans… we also get the best mail! This letter came to us from 4 year old Sadie in California. Sadie loves playing Rush Hour and would very much like to play at preschool while her friends are napping, the only problem is that the game is a bit too [...] One of the perks of working at ThinkFun is hearing about how our games affect the lives of the children that play them. Just had to share Max’s story, emailed to ThinkFun CEO Andrea Barthello by his mother Aileen… stories like this are what keep us going! Meet Max, a ThinkFun fan through and through! Thank [...] ThinkFun is celebrating the start of a fantastic new school year with a 25% discount! Shop for new mind challenging games and puzzles at www.thinkfun.com and enter promo code BACK2SCHOOL at checkout for a 25% savings. As always, orders over $25 ship free! This offer is good through Sunday, September 12. Discount applies to [...] The Ontario Mathematics Olympiad, (OMO) is an annual mathematics competition featuring teams of the best grade 7 and 8 math students from across Ontario. This year’s Olympiad featured 124 students (31 teams of 4) who completed 4 contests, one of which included a logical thinking challenge featuring specially designed Chocolate Fix puzzles! The following guest post [...] We just received some fantastic photos from “Autoexotica,” Russia’s largest annual car and bike show which features over 8000 vehicles! In it’s 14th year, this year’s expo was held from July 9-11th on the Tushino airfield in Moscow. Representatives from ThinkFun’s Russian partner Mart Ltd. attended the event with car magazine “Ignitione” and offered prizes for [...] With this post I want to introduce an incredible individual, Marvin Hall, whose Halls of Learning organization is dedicated to empowering young learners through education. A former math teacher and lifelong lover of mind challenging puzzle play, Marvin has dedicated his life to creating innovating new learning opportunities for children in Jamaica. Photography by Joanna [...] Look who snuck into my luggage and hitched a ride to Italy! The Zingo! Zoomer (and I!) had a blast on our trip around Italy, hope you enjoy these fun photos #gallery-2 { What is YOUR favorite travel game? The following guest post is by Eli Jannes, a fabulous teacher in Key West, Florida who has been a champion of game play in her classroom for years. Here Eli shares the story of how her students kicked their problem solving skills into high gear to take on ThinkFun’s most diabolical puzzle! Right before [...] I am thrilled to share the following guest post by Pia Prenevost! In her blog The Crack and the Light, Pia shares her journey raising her son Jonathan who struggles with a severe speech/language disorder. Teaching J-man To Play Adorable. That defines my son J-man, with big blue eyes and those lashes that cosmetic companies would [...] “Ora di Punta!“ I just returned from Italy (a hardship, I know!), where I spent 10 wonderful days with my husband and his amazing family. While I’m a pretty go-with-the-flow traveler, since starting my job here at ThinkFun I do have one mildly irritating travel habit… I absolutely can not walk by a toy or puzzle [...] |
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