GIVEAWAY & REVIEW: Grow Your Brains With Gigamic Games Like Quoridor and Panic Lab

Happy 20th Anniversary Quoridor

We are huge fans of brain games here at ChiIL Mama. My kids have grown up playing puzzle games, memory games, board games, card games and brain games from toddlerhood on. So, when Gigamic games reached out to us to partner up on a review and giveaway, we jumped at the chance. 

Disclosure: We have been given games for review purposes and for our giveaway. This post contains affiliate links. As always, all opinions are our own.

I fully believe playing smart games has increased my kids' brain power. Now that my kids are 13 & 15, they're both in advanced honors tracks in two of the best public schools in the city of Chicago, if not the country. My 15 year old son, Dugan, is the VP of a card game club at Lane Tech, and taking 3 college level AP classes and the rest senior level course work. He's also a great game tester for me, along with his sister, Sage, who is an 8th grader in the IB honors program at Taft high school's academic center.

Now that my kids are teens, family play is even more fun, and we're all pretty evenly matched. Want to add Quoridor to your family's game collection?

ENTER HERE for your chance to win a 

gorgeous wooden Quoridor set ($34.95 value) from Gigamic & ChiIL Mama just in time for the holidays!

Open to US entries nationwide. Enter through midnight 11/24/16.

We were given Quoridor and Panic Lab to review. Both were huge hits with the family. Quoridor is a gorgeous wooden set, classy and classic enough to leave out as decor, on our gaming trunk. Games are meant to be seen and played. We've found that when they're unboxed they get played even more often. Both games are easy to learn quickly. Quoridor remains challenging as it's strategies are easy to learn, tough to master. 



Panic Lab is a fast paced, playful game, perfect for multi age groups and keeping the kids off the video games for some family together time. The tin makes travel with Panic Lab a snap. This was my daughter's favorite, hands down. And I will say the kids beat the adults on this one on just about every round. The game play resulted in a lot of laughs. We highly recommend both games!

Many of Gigamic's puzzle and strategy games have educational benefits while the wooden games also make beautiful (yet functional) decorations as coffee table games, on home bars, in man caves and on desks. Many of the tin games are great for travel and will make fantastic stocking stuffers. They are fun, casual games with short teaching time and are fast to play. Gigamic makes quality games that stand the test of time. Quarto is celebrating 25 years and Quoridor is celebrating 20! Whether you want a timeless classic keepsake or a colorful newcomer, Gigamic has you covered.

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Follow Gigamic on Facebook and Twitter here & Check out the Gigamic site to order your brain games!

Get Gigamic Games:

Marbles (Quarto, Quoridor,Katamino), Amazon (Quoridor and more), Barnes & Noble, & local Chicago games stores like one of our favorites, Cat and Mouse.

Disclosure: Once again, we have been given games for review purposes and for our giveaway. This post contains affiliate links. As always, all opinions are our own.

SALE Through This Monday On Grandpa Beck's Games and Giveaway

Last weekend, ChiIL Mama covered the awesome annual Chicago Toy and Game Fair and we left with a plethora of great games. The timing was perfect because we spent the past 5 days celebrating the long Thanksgiving holiday eating great food and playing loads of board games with family from 3 states.

Some of our favorites are Grandpa Beck's award winning card games Skull King, Cover Your Assets and Nuts About Mutts. It was a pleasure to meet Brent Beck, "CEG" (Chief Executive Grandpa) at Grandpa Beck's Games and the woman behind the CEG! Check back soon for our full review on all 3 games. 

In the meantime, Here at ChiIL Mama, we're also giving away a free Grandpa Beck's Game to THREE of our readers (winner's choice) all this week. ENTER HERE through midnight December 6th. 

An exciting part of 

Now through December 18th

All Grandpa Beck's Games are on sale this Thanksgiving weekend through Monday. ChiIL Mama's readers can buy three games, and then get one free. This is like a 25 percent discount. Just load this code into Amazon on checkout. bstgms15.

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grandpabecksgames.com 

twitter@4GreatGames

Instagram.com/bestcardgames

Facebook.com/grandpabecksgames

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Games are available at many local stores, and always available on Amazon.com.

Disclosure: ChiIL Mama was happy to meet Grandpa Beck and his wife at The Chicago Toy and Game fair. We're pleased to partner up with this fun company. They have provided games for our giveaway and for review purposes. All opinions are our own.