Connect Four is an absorbing and challenging game of vertical strategy that’s easy to learn and fun to play. Since 1974, players have gone head to head to build a row of four playing pieces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally while their opponent tries to prevent them from doing the same. Sounds easy, but it’s not! The fast-paced play of this game requires you to think ahead. Who will own the grid?

CANDY LAND is a simple racing board game in which eager young players travel along a rainbow-covered path, past the Peppermint Forest and the Gumdrop Mountain, in an effort to be first to reach Home Sweet Home. To move their Gingerbread Man marker along the path, a player draws one of the simple color cards, advancing their marker to the next square of the same color. There's no reading required, making this an ideal first board game for children.