Simon Flash
© 2011 Hasbro Games
Note Simon Air. The second tile-based game from Hasbro (see also Scrabble Flash), this Simon game has been changed from its original round, plate-sized console design into four small, freestanding light up tiles. You try to follow the growing sequence of flashing colored lights as you attempt to keep up with the computer. Besides the classic mode, there are several new ways to play, including a Shuffle mode, where the computer reveals a pattern of colors by lighting up in a flash, but then quickly rearranges the colors. You must shuffle the tiles to get them back into the original pattern. There's also Simon Lights Off (you get 90 seconds to slide and swap tiles before the lights come back on), and Simon Secret Color (players must rearrange the tiles until all the cubes light up as the same color). Each title is powered by two AAA batteries (included). To turn on each tile you hold down the front, light up square. They turn off automatically if they are not used.
$30, Smart Toy
Teaches: memory, logic