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The Procrastinator Timewaster - For 71% of your adult life until the age of 65 you have to go to work. Thats a lot of work!!!

Thankfully we have a suitable - nay ingenious - remedy for this near disastrous state of affairs. The Procrastinator.

This little desktop aid is the perfect solution to those moments at work when your mind starts to wander and you enter the state of Zombification!!!

It comes enclosed in a plastic portable case with sliding lid which is easy to hide from your boss or to pass off as a trendy calculator and contains a pencil and an activity pad.

Nothing too ingenious there then you may think. Au contraire!

The Procrastinator contains 1000’s of mindless activities on 100’s of tear off sheets for you and your work mates to complete whilst your bosses back is turned.

Priceless gems ranging from sociological debates such as ‘A finger of fudge is just enough’ - discuss, through to statements such as ‘There was an almighty fracas at a society wedding today when the best man was found…’ are presented with enough space to add your suitable comment, answer or recommendation.

These great topics of debate go on and on are complemented by a plethora of great pen and paper activities including drawings, doodling, ’sods laws’, and your top 5 today lists.

So go, design the perfect tie, decide who requires the biggest slap in the office and generally waste as much time as possible with this great gift.

Dimensions:

16.5cms
11.5cms

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Race Cups - Race Cups are used to play the exciting and addictive new sport taking the world by storm….Sport Stacking.

Sport Stacking is an adrenaline fueled hand-eye coordination phenomenon taking the US by storm, devised for either individual or team participation. The art of Sport Stacking has been around for over 20 years and now it’s the fastest growing sport in the US with the UK hot on its heels!

So how does Race Cups work?

Well… With a pack of 12 specially designed plastic cups, your challenge is to stack and unstack the cups in different formations racing against the clock to get the best possible time. This could be done one-on-one or as a team competition. Within a short time players develop lightning reactions, which need to be seen to be believed!

Stacking Race Cups at high speeds in different formations enhance rudimentary motor skills such as hand-eye coordination and ambidexterity, as well as speed of thought and concentration. This variety of skills uses both sides of the brain and helps to develop young and immature minds. You could race against your friends or practice alone, Race Cups promotes healthy competition and great teamwork.

Race Cups provides endless fun with a number of different formations to achieve within your own record time. See how fast you can stack them up and take them down before stopping the clock on the race cups competition timer with built-in ‘rapid-touch’ technology.

Pack Contents:

12 x Race Cups
1 x Race Mat
1 x Carry Bag
1 x Electronic Timer (can be carried around your neck)
Instruction booklet
Dimensions:

Length - 8.8 cm
Width - 48.5 cm
Height - 24 cm

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3D Snakes and Ladders - In this exciting and original new version, the fun of Snakes & Ladders is brought even more to life, courtesy of 3-D.

The game is the same… land on a square with a snake and slide down to looser-ville, land on a square with a ladder and climb to the dizzy heights of…. a few squares up! Genius, simple, classic and despite its age (over 100 years old) remains one of the most popular games around with children! One of the games appeals is of course that you need absolutely no skill to win! Pure luck rules!

It is possible the game was invented by John Jaques of Jaques of London! One of our very own suppliers! This time you really get to climb up the ladders and those nasty snakes - well they’re waiting to trap you and you really want to avoid them if you can. Snakes & Ladders really is now a game of ups-and-downs and you could be slithering back down towards the start quicker than you can say ‘Hisss!’.

Join in the fun and race to the finish - but beware of where you step!

Please note: 3D snakes and ladders requires simple construction so some adult supervision is required.

Contents:

1 x Multi level playing boards
6 x Playing pieces
2 x Dice
1 x rules booklet
Players:

2-6
Age Suitability:

Ages 4+
Dimensions (constructed):

Height - 22cm
Width - 38cm
Depth - 38cm

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Bananagrams - Bananagrams is a FAST and FUN word game that requires NO pencil, paper or board. All you need is a table.

One hand can be played in as little as 5 minutes making Bananagrams a great family fun as well as being educational! Bananagrams portability makes it perfect for travel. The whole game is contained within a fun yellow banana shaped pouch that’s just the right size to throw in your handbag…. So just grab the pouch and go!

The rules are pretty straight forward. Depending on how many players you have, put all the tiles face down and take a certain number of letter for yourself from the bunch. One player shouts ‘Split’ and everyone turns their tiles over. Then its up to you to try and connect all your letter into intersecting words. You can re-arrange them as many times as you like until you have used all your tiles. Then you shout ‘Peel’. This means all players have to take one more tile from the centre bunch. This continues until all the tiles are gone. The player to connect the last tile is the winner. If you are the lucky one you shout ‘Bananas’ and the game is over… But be careful, a single spelling mistake will make you a ‘Rotten Banana!’

Your instructions also feature 4 great alternative games to try.

Age Suitability:

7+
Players:

Between 2 and 8
Contents:

1 x Bananagrams pouch
144 x Ivory-like letter tiles
1 x Instructions
Dimensions (in pouch):

Length - 23cm
Width - 9cm

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John Jaques Shuffleboard - Shuffleboard - or to use it’s original name - ‘Sjoelbak’ due to it’s Northern European origins, is one of those highly addictive games which is ‘oh so simple’ and is ‘oh so’ much fun.

The rules to the game are simple. Each player has 3 turns to slide the 30 disks one at a time through the gates at the end of the board. Each gate is numbered 1 to 4. The Discs that have gone through the scoring gate into the compartment are worth the value on the gate, whilst complete sets of 1 disk in each of the 4 compartments are worth double.

Alternatively however there are any number of games you can play/invent with this fantastic family game.

Dimensions:

Length: 151cm.
Height: 6.5cm.
Width: 38cm.
Weight: 5 kilos.
Contents:

1 x Shuffleboard.
30 x Disks.

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Electronic Sudoku Game - Sudoku is taking the world by storm! Originating in Japan, the game is now one of the most popular games across the Western World! If you haven’t heard of it you must have been living on a desert island for the last 6 months! Saying that, it wouldn’t be surprising if the game had found its way to even there - that’s how popular it is!

Sudoku is without doubt the most addictive game available at the moment. It is in every paper, every magazine and there are literally hundreds of books available everywhere you look.

They are all fine if you want to carry a big book around or buy a paper every day to get the answers from the day before. But what if you want to play Sudoku on your way to work or in your lunch break, or what if you want to just pop a Sudoku game into your bag to play when you get a few minutes?

Well you will need an Electronic Sudoku Game!

Unlike all the other electronic games available, this one allows you to write your answers (and more importantly your possible answers) down as you play. The re-usable, wipe-clean grid means that you can play Sudoku where you like and as often as you like.

Writing your possible answers is a key part of solving the puzzles - it’s not going to be too easy to play the game without being able to do this!

This new electronic Sudoku game will give hours, days, weeks, even months of fun pitching your wits against the computer to solve the puzzles.

It is really easy to use, has a clear LCD display, three levels of difficulty and gives hints to answers. There are three card sets for children/beginners, intermediates and seasoned players! It’s amazing!

KEY FEATURES

Unique Sudoku grid templates to write answers on
Holds your current game in its memory even when turned off - simply switch it back on and start from where you left off
Over 10,000 puzzles to play
Grid cards are dry wipe so can be used again and again
20 cards, double sided
Three types of cards: 6 x 6, 9 x 9 and 12 x 12
Childrens cards with graphics provide educational fun with numbers
Hand held and portable for easy travel
Complete with dry wipe pen
2 line LCD display
3 levels of difficulty and hints to answers by square, box or complete puzzle
2 year warranty
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION

Power consumption 3 v DC
Power supply 1 x CR2032 battery (included)
Display 2 line, 14 characters dot matrix LCD
Dimensions:

Height - 13cm / 5′
Width - 7cm / 3′
Depth - 1.5cm / 1′

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Electronic, Sudoku, Game, gifts

John Jaques Indoor Carpet Bowls - The name Jaques is synonymous with quality sporting sets. John Jaques II won a place in sporting history, and a Gold Medal for introducing croquet into England at the Great Exhibition in 1851. His display there attracted such wide attention that the game speedily became the vogue, not only here but in Europe and throughout the British Empire. It was especially popular in India, reportedly played by The Viceroy himself with a solid ivory mallet, probably made by Jaques as part of their finest set.

A replica of the garden bowls set, the carpet bowls subscribe to the same principle as its outdoor counterpart. Put simply, you need to bowl as many of your bowls as close to the jack as possible and ensure that your opponent doesn’t. The winner is the person who accumulates the most points in the alloted number of ends (rounds). John Jaques Carpet Bowls is fantastic family fun.

Contents:

8 x bowls
1 x Jack
1 x Attractive Zipped Carry Case.

Dimensions:

Bowl Size - 66mm

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