Inspector Mouse: The Great Escape is a new memory board game for kids from HABA.

The convicts are planning a jailbreak! Kids will work as detectives to figure out which crook in the cell escaped the jail. 

Memory board games like Inspector Mouse: The Great Escape are a great way to help kids exercise and improve their working memory which will help them in their educational journey and beyond!

Grab your boots! It’s hiking season! Time to fill up our canteens, pack the compass and hit the trail up the Mountains! Do you think your friend would mind if we borrowed her tent? She’d be doing us a huge favor. 

Oh, can I also borrow your first aid kit? That seems kind of important. 

Growing up, memory games were always some of my most favorite. 

I remember my mother telling me how when I was just a little kid I would play game after game of memory matching against her until she could no longer beat me. To this day, I still love to play them and now have the pleasure of playing them with my own children.

I believe that memory games are not only a fun game to play, but also an incredibly useful educational tool to help young minds learn. So I’m always on the lookout for great ones to add to our shelves, and luckily for my children, the selection is far superior than my glory days of “guess and flip” tiles. 

Now they have games with a working carousel! And yes, it sounds as amazing as you’d think!

One of our family’s favorite games to play is the Magic Labyrinth. In this game, players must navigate a maze to collect different items. The first person to collect five items wins the game – there’s just one catch, no one can see the maze because it’s hidden under the board! Players move a magnetized wizard on top of the board while below a small ball is sliding along the underside thanks to the power of magnets. Not visible to the players are the many path blockers that the ball can run into, breaking its connection with the wizard and rolling its way back to the start where the player must begin again, looking for a different path free of roadblocks to get the special item.

This game can be hard, and that is why I love it.