Great Giveaway: ThinkSmart Wii and DS Games Review and Giveaway Ends 10/24

Game Information (from press release)

The thinkSMART series of inventive and challenging games increase your skills in logical thinking, three dimensional perception, math, memory, language comprehension and much more. Mentor InterActive is introducing a thinkSMART game for every member of the family!

• Kids thinkSMART  8+UP for Nintendo DS (8+ UP): A fun and fast paced collection of stimulating and brain twisting puzzlers that challenge players to improve their brain power.
• Kids can select a boy or girl coach that will guide them through the different levels providing personalized feedback on their progress.
• Single player and Multiplayer Modes including are available to give kids the chance to match with friends and family members to figure out who has the highest “think quotient”! 
• Three levels of difficulty and 6 categories of games including language skills, logical thinking, math, memory, reasoning and pattern recognition.

• thinkSMART Family for Wii™: This original brain and physical training program is specially designed for the entire family to play, as each player goes head to head at their own level.  
• Helps you develop language, memory, mathematics, spatial reasoning and logic skills in an imaginative and creative way. 
• Features Mental and Physical Fitness programs…specially designed for each individual player
• An individual training plan tailored to your previous performance enables you to keep track of your progress. 
• Customize your own Avatars and compete against the whole family in Multiplayer Mode to find out who has the highest Think® quotient!

thinkSMART games will have their own dedicated website, www.thinksmartgames.com to help players decide which game will be the most fun for them.  It will also feature a challenging mini-puzzler sampler competition that will include an online leader board offering prizes to high scorers on a weekly basis during the games first two months.  Players will be able to easily send the game and their scores to compare to and challenge their friends.





My Thoughts:

I believe that playing games together as a family is very important.  There are a lot of life skills kids can learn from playing games together like patience, cooperation, taking turns and good sportsmanship.  I also believe children learn best through play.  That's why I love ThinkSmart Family for the Wii.  It combines fun and learning and has a great multiplayer function. The different skill levels ensures the whole family can play.  My family really enjoyed ThinkSmart Family, especially playing the multiplayer.  Even my 4 yr old was able to play, in fact I think he had the most fun.  The only issue I have is that it's very unforgiving, you don't get a second chance if you get one wrong and it can be a bit shaky with the Wii remote.  But then that's a common problem I have with the Wii, maybe it's my shaky hands.  Other than that it's really great.

Buy It! 

The thinkSMART games are available now at mass and specialty retailers throughout North America. Suggested Retail Price (SRP) for Kids thinkSMART and thinkSMART for the DS is $19.99 and the SRP for Family thinkSMART for Wii™ is 29.99. For more information on the thinkSMART games and to enter the thinkSMART challenge log onto www.thinksmartgames.com. The thinkSMART games are rated E (Everyone) by the ESRB.

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One lucky Hot Mom Tips read will win their own copy of ThinkSmart Kids for the DS!

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 Giveaway ends October 24, 2010 11:59pm PDT.  Winner will be chosen at random using Random.org

Disclosure:  I did receive a free copy of ThinkSmart Family for the Wii in order to review this product.  I did not receive any monetary compensation for this review.  This is 100% my own, true opinion.