Award-Winning Games of 2024

My Mine by SimplyFun is a fun game for kids aged 6 and up, focusing on probability and predicting.

Winning an award is always a cause for celebration, but winning 36 awards in one year? That's more than an incredible accomplishment, it's a testament to the creativity, dedication, and passion that goes into designing each and every SimplyFun game. Our award-winning children's educational board games not only make learning fun, but they inspire curiosity and bring families together to create moments of screen-free, wholesome fun. 

In 2024, 12 SimplyFun games were recognized with 36 awards. From spatial reasoning to shape recognition and everything in between, these top-notch games were acclaimed and admired over and over again by industry experts in the parenting and educational space. 

 

Curious about what each award organization is all about and what they look for in a winner? Check out our awards page to dive deeper into each award program that SimplyFun has been recognized by. 

 

Now, let's take a look at our winners! 

 

Arctic Riders

Focus: Addition & Subtraction

2-4 players • 20 min • 7 & up

Arctic Riders is an immersive math card game for kids that helps children practice mental math by adding & subtracting in double digits to feed narwhals! Score points when the narwhal munches on your treats or swims by. Parents and kids will love the self-check math cards that reveal the answers, like magic!

Awards

2024 Academics’ Choice ‘Brain Toy’ Award Winner

Arctic Riders by SimplyFun is a fun math game focusing on addition and subtraction and featuring cute arctic animals.

 

Fossil Sweep

Focus: Decision Making

2-5 players • 20 min • 8 & up

Step into the fascinating world of fossils! Use strategy and decision-making to match fossil layers and uncover ancient treasures before they’re lost to time. In Fossil Sweep, players match the fossil layers on the cards in their hands to the card layers on the dig site. Cards have different point values, and the goal of the game is to discard as many cards as possible within each round. The player with the fewest total points at the end of the game wins!

Awards: 

2024 NAPPA Award Winner

2024 Mom’s Choice Award Winner, Gold - Level One

2024 Parents’ Picks Awards: Best Products for Elementary Kids 2024, Best Educational Products in the World – 2024/25

Fossil Sweep by SimplyFun is a fun card game for ages 8 and up.

 

Kids on the Go Card Set

Focus: Letters, Numbers, Colors, Shapes 

2-6 players • 20 min • 4 & up

Kids on the Go Card Set is a set of four card games that introduces young players to taking turns, and recognizing their colors, shapes, numbers and letters. Includes a convenient tote bag for more fun on the go! 

Awards

2024 NAPPA Award Winner

Kids on the Go Card Set by SimplyFun is a fun set of card games focused on colors, shapes, numbers, and letters.

 

My Fun Set

Focus: Colors & Shapes, Telling Time 

1+ players • 10 min • 2 & up

Early childhood learning is as easy as 1-2-3 with My Fun Set! Prep little learners for preschool with three toddler-aged toys that encourage hands-on, mess-free fun for children ages 2 and up. Included in My Fun Set: 

  • My Fun Day is a colorful, wooden activity board that teaches the months of the year, days of the week, the four seasons, and telling time
  • My Fun Buddy Book is a cuddly cloth book that inspires imagination and sensory development
  • My Fun Shapes is a set of 30 colorful wooden blocks that foster color and shape recognition while simultaneously supporting fine more skill development.

Awards

2024 NAPPA Award Winner

My Fun Set by SimplyFun includes three toddler aged learning activities

 

My Fun Shapes

Focus: Colors & Shapes

1+ players • 10 min • 2 & up

Learn colors and shapes while building fine motor skills! Stack, balance, and play alongside Tibbar rabbit to see how many shapes you can balance before they all fall down. This set of 30 colorful wooden blocks also includes activity disks for an added challenge. Instead of stacking or playing freely, pick up a disk from the pile to see what color or shape of block to add to the stack next. Keep little hands busy in play with My Fun Shapes!

Awards

2024 Parents Best Toy Awards - Best Educational Toy for Toddlers 

2024 PAL Award Winner

2024 PAL ‘Top 10’ – preschool category 

2024 Mom’s Choice Award Winner, Gold - Level One

My Fun Shapes by SimplyFun is a wooden activity game that introduces children to shapes, colors, following directions, stacking and balancing.

My Mine

Focus: Probability

2-6 players • 20 min • 6 & up

Eureka, you have struck gold! This mine is loaded with valuable gold nuggets and ready for you to stake your claim! Try to mine as many nuggets as you can, but beware—the other miners will also be trying to stake their claim and may even try to take some of yours. In this game of risk and reward, players roll the dice and try to collect as many gold nuggets as they can. But if you get too greedy, you may lose it all.

Awards

2024 Academics’ Choice ‘Brain Toy’ Award Winner

2024 NAPPA Award Winner

My Mine by SimplyFun is a fun game for kids aged 6 and up, focusing on probability and predicting.

Plundering Times

Focus: Multiplication

2-4 players • 15 min • 8 & up

Ahoy, mateys! Lead your dragon pirate crew to plunder the Islands of Numbers in this epic math adventure. Use multiplication and addition to match or get close to each island’s number without going over. Remember, the best captain wins by collecting treasure chests and raiding rivals for gems. Master your memory and two-step problem-solving to build the greatest hoard and claim victory!

Awards

2024 NAPPA Award Winner

2024 Mom’s Choice Award Winner, Gold - Level One

2024 Parents’ Picks Awards: Best Products for Elementary Kids 2024, Best Educational Products in the World – 2024/25

 

Plundering Times by SimplyFun is a multiplication and addition math game for ages 8 and up.

 

Prickly Path

Focus: Strategy

2-4 players • 20 min • 8 & up

Join the coyote for a stroll through the desert to admire the beautiful groups of wild cacti in bloom! In Prickly Path, players take turns rolling the dice and counting spaces to place their cactus pieces on the gameboard to form groups of the same type. The more of the same type you group together, the more points you score!  

Awards

2024 NAPPA Award Winner

2024 Mensa Select Games Winner

2024 Mom’s Choice Award Winner, Gold - Level One

2024 PAL Award Winner

2024 PAL ‘Top 10’ – preschool category 

2024 Parents’ Picks Awards: Best Products for Elementary Kids 2024, Best Educational Products in the World – 2024/25

Prickly Path by SimplyFun is a strategy and decision making game for ages 8 and up.


SlideAscope

Focus: Patterns

1-5 players • 20 min • 8 & up

Get ready for a tile-matching thrill! Strategically place tiles to match sides and create cascading combos. Watch as tiles slide and unlock new matching opportunities. Outsmart your opponents and score high to win in this game of spatial reasoning and critical thinking!

Awards

2024 Academics’ Choice ‘Brain Toy’ Award Winner

2024 NAPPA Award Winner

2024 Mom’s Choice Award Winner, Gold - Level One

2024 PAL Award Winner

2024 Parents’ Picks Award Winner: Best Products for Elementary Kids 2024, Best Middle School Products & The Best High School Products of 2024, Best Educational Products in the World – 2024/25

2024 The Toy Insider 'Top Summer Toy' Award 

SlideAscope by SimplyFun is spatial reasoning and critical thinking game for 1-5 players.

 

Sumology

Focus: Simple Equations

2+ players • 30 min • 8 & up

Get ready for a math showdown! Sumology is a fast-paced tile placement game where two or more players take turns playing tiles to build equations by combining new and existing tiles. This game will sharpen math skills and teach learners to think on their feet and strategize to score as many points as possible.

Awards

2024 Academics’ Choice ‘Brain Toy’ Award Winner

Sumology by SimplyFun is a fun math game focusing on addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division. It's like scrabble for math.

 

Time Jumpers

Focus: History

2-5 players • 30 min • 8 & up

Go back in time to witness some of the greatest achievements, discoveries, and events of the 20th century. Players take turns moving around the category portal to collect cards and fill their dashboards with cards in chronological order to meet certain goals like collecting a card from each category. Players earn points based on each goal and the player with the most points at the end of the game wins!

Awards

2024 Academics’ Choice ‘Brain Toy’ Award Winner

2024 'Recommended by Mensa' Award Winner

Time Jumpers by SimplyFun lets you learn about some of the greatest achievements, discoveries, and events of the 20th century.

 

Walk the Dogs

Focus: Counting & Collecting

2-5 players • 30 min • 8 & up

With 63 adorable dogs, Walk the Dogs barks fun while reinforcing basic math skills. Players create a line of dogs with as many of the same breed together as possible. You can only add to the front or back of your line, so choose wisely! Players earn points for each set of dogs or can gather five of the same breed in a row to win instantly! A family-fun counting, multiplication, and predicting game. 

Awards

2024 Academics’ Choice ‘Brain Toy’ Award Winner

Walk the Dogs by SimplyFun is a math game featuring 63 adorable dogs and focusing on counting and multiplication.

 

These noteworthy accolades are more than just a shiny seal to tout, they're a reflection of our incredible team's passion for creating engaging, educational board games that inspire young minds. We’re honored to be recognized by every one of these award programs and grateful for the families, educators, partners, and players who continue to support our mission. 2024 was a record-breaking year in the awards category and we can’t wait to see what award-worthy adventures 2025 has in store for us! 

 

 

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