The Best Giiker Games: What to Buy and Skip

We’ve tried every one of the Giiker games as a family of 9, from our 7-year-old up through the adults, and even took one along to Magic Kingdom to see if it held up to real travel use. Many Giiker games are genuinely great. A couple aren’t worth your money.

Giiker Games Top Picks

Giiker Super Slide

This is Giiker’s flagship, and it earns that spot. Over 500 puzzles, and it’s a genuinely better challenge than a typical slide puzzle. There are various pieces you need to set up each round, so a case is a must, but that’s a minor tradeoff. We gifted this to our 7-year-old and it’s been a hit with the whole family, not just her. One reader told us she got it for her grandfather, and he loves it too. These games are for every age in the house, not just the kids.

If you’re only going to get one, or you’re torn on which to get, go with the Super Slide.

Giiker Super Decoder

One of our favorites in the whole lineup. You can play solo against the machine, build puzzles for someone else to solve, and switch between two challenge modes depending on the age of whoever’s playing. No extra pieces to lose, which makes Giiker Super Decoder one of the best of these for travel. Full recommend. We also got a case for this one to keep it safe during tavel.

Giiker Super Blocks

Clever and addictive, and great for spatial reasoning and problem solving. Like Super Slide, it comes with a lot of small pieces, so plan on a case for this one too. Each puzzle presents the player with lights on the board that they need to cover with specific polyomino pieces. There is a nice progression from easy to very hard puzzles making it great for all ages.

Giiker Super Reversi

Their electronic take on Othello, and it’s excellent. We tested Giiker Super Reversi at Magic Kingdom to see how it held up for both travel and theme park use, and it passed. Fully self-contained, no extra pieces, small enough to fit in a purse. It’s got a puzzle mode, an adaptive AI opponent that learns your moves, and a head-to-head mode. Definitely worth owning.

Giiker Tic Tac Toe Bolt

This introduces infinite tic tac to gameplay with disappearing marks. You only get three marks on the board at a time, your oldest will disappear leaving an open space your opponent can use. This makes a very clever game you can’t recreate with paper and pen. You can play alone against the adaptive AI player who adapts to your skills or duo against a friend. It also has a memory game which provides a completely new challenge beyond just the tic tac toe game.

The top of the game comes off and reveals an interior compartment with a version of cover-up tic-tac-toe. This is the same game as Gobblet Gobbler which we’ve long recommended. This iteration is even more easy to store then the regular board game version. I also like that for travel you can take just the electronic game with you, leaving behind the extra pieces at home.

Giiker Smart Four

A genuinely tricky version of Connect Four, played in a way that would be hard to track without the electronic scoring. This really requires players to be paying attention and thinking strategically about their moves. winning requires a lot of misdirection and spatial awareness. This is a good abstract game for kids and adults. Only caution I’d give for this is that it’s somewhat annoying to store in it’s large box and is still relatively expensive for an abstract game you can only play at home. If you want something like this with a much smaller price tag, this wooden game is a favorite of mine.

Skip These Two Giiker Games

Giiker Smart Sudoku

The fiddly nature of Smart Sudoku makes this a hard sell on its own. With 36 individual tiny number pieces, you lose one and you can’t play. You’re also not playing true sudoku, but an easier version of it which makes it a harder sell for me. A regular sudoku book does the same job for less money and zero risk of losing something.

Giiker Smart Ludo

At $70, this is a hard pass. It’s an electronic version of the Sorry-style game format which makes the price even more egregious. Not only is Sorry a lackluster game that is hard to improve with electronic elements and “game events” as they call them, but it’s typically available for $8, so spending $70 for an electronic version is just not something you need to do.