Gift Ideas for Kids: Games & Challenges

The addictive card game where the lowest score wins and every round has a twist.

A virtual hypercar turned real, in a few hundred satisfying LEGO pieces.

A magnetic 3x3 speed cube from GAN, listed on Amazon as a puzzle for kids.

Build a sturdy 3D sphere featuring all your favorite Pokémon, no glue needed.

A fast word game for 1 to 8 players, with 144 letter tiles in a banana-shaped pouch.

150 obstacles, 50 secret portals, and one maze you can't put down.

The Hasbro stacking game: 54 hardwood blocks, a stacking sleeve and a tube box with a carrying handle.

Perplexus Beast, a 100-obstacle sphere from Spin Master Games, with the Laughing Man and Super Spiral.

A falling-marble logic game sold as a STEM toy, rated 4.6 across 37,800+ Amazon US reviews.

A fast, clever memory game where the sharpest deducer wins.

Perplexus Rebel, the original 70-obstacle sphere, listed for ages 8 and up and pitched for anxiety relief.

The UNO deck built for the beach, the pool, and everywhere in between.

A STEM activity kit that teaches gear mechanics through building LEGO-compatible bots.

Build a real moving robot from scratch — no batteries of frustration required.

The sequencing card game that's brought families together for decades.

44 magnets and 10 scenes to dress up unicorns again and again.

A Pokémon TCG Elite Trainer Box from the 30th Celebration line, with a full-art promo card and 9 boosters per the listing.

A Pokémon TCG box with 8 booster packs, 2 foil promo cards and an oversize Snorlax ex card.

The classic UNO game, now with Stitch's chaos and an 'Ohana twist.

The classic UNO, dressed up with a metal tin and a double-deck card tray.

The Guess Who? guessing game with classic Nintendo characters.

Shout the words, slap the pile — the fastest, silliest card game around.

UNO with the cast of Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters and a Wild Golden Honmoon card, in a collectible tin.

A 1000-piece jigsaw split into 24 numbered boxes, one to open each day until Christmas Eve.

A fast, 15-minute LEGO-building party game for 2-8 players, ages 7 and up.

A suction cup dart game starter pack from Popdarts, rated 4.8 across 400+ reviews.

A light-up chess board that coaches you in real time, then lets you play the world.

An educational geography board game for kids and adults.

The classic four-in-a-row game, shrunk down for the road.

24 packs of World Cup trading cards to collect the stars of the tournament.

30+ space-themed building challenge cards with 25 LEGO elements, for ages 6 and up.

A kid-friendly biography of the man who founded LEGO, for young fans curious about its history.