A game system includes a base having a top base surface and a controller, and a game piece manipulator including a surface having an electrically conductive portion. The game piece manipulator is configured to hold a game piece. The top base surface is configured to receive a plurality of game pieces. The controller is configured to control an electric stimulus emitted by the game piece manipulator, and the game piece manipulator is configured to emit the electric stimulus by the electrically conductive portion. A game piece manipulator includes at least one electrically conductive portion positioned on a surface of the game piece manipulator and is configured to connect to a base and receive control signals by a controller of the base and emit an electric stimulus. A game kit includes a base, a game piece manipulator, and a plurality of game pieces.

A game system according to various embodiments of the subject disclosure may include a game piece and a game piece manipulator configured to hold the game piece. The game piece manipulator may include a first surface comprising a first electrically conductive portion and a controller configured to control an electric stimulus emitted by the game piece manipulator. The game piece manipulator may emit the electric stimulus by the first electrically conductive portion. The game piece may further include a power supply.

A stacking cup is provided including a side wall having a rim on a first end thereof defining an upper opening; a bottom portion defined on a second end of the side wall such that the sidewall and the bottom portion define a vessel having the upper opening; at least one engaging element defined on the bottom portion the engaging element being configured to engage a portion of a rim of another cup such that the other cup is securely held by the engaging element.

Methods of playing games of chance utilizing dice are provided. A method of playing a stackable building block game is provided. The blocks are stacked in perpendicularly alternating levels and display a designated number. A player rolls a die to display a number and removes from the tower a block with a designated number equal to the number displayed on the die. The player then sets the removed building block on top of the tower. These steps are repeated until the tower falls. A method of playing a game of dominoes using stackable building blocks is provided. Players complete a game of dominoes. A player then rolls a die to display a number and removes the blocks displaying markings equal to the number displayed on the die. This is repeated by the players until all of the blocks are removed. The player having the most blocks is declared winner.

A crafting system for guiding a user in creating a craft, includes a crafting challenge repository storing a plurality of crafting challenges. The challenges each include instructions for creating a specific craft. A display surface can display the crafting challenges thereon. A controller includes instructions to receive a selection of a selected crafting challenge to be displayed on the display surface, and instructions to prepare a selected challenge for display on the display surface and to provide the prepared challenge to the display surface for display thereon. The controller is accommodated in a housing. At least one at least partially transparent crafting surface, may be removably mounted above the display surface such that when instructions of the prepared challenge are displayed on the display surface, the instructions are visible to the user through the crafting surface.

A stacking game system is provided. The stacking game system includes a spinner. The spinner includes a number of slots. Each slot is sized to receive a playing card from a deck of playing cards. A system of blocks that are stackable is included. The deck of playing cards is sorted into a number of groups. Each group of playing cards corresponds to a set of blocks from the system of blocks. The system of blocks is stackable, but are structurally free of interlocking components. A game may be played utilizing the components of the stacking game system.

A multi-layer toy having at least one outer layer adjacent a planar layer or a ball where both the outer layer and the adjacent planar layer or ball each contain related information such that, in play, the information on the outer layer is made to align with the related information on the adjacent planar layer or ball. The information can comprise depictions of objects, things, characters, animals, or words, for a matching game, or the information can comprise numbers for a counting or mental math game. The toy is preferably sized to be hand-held.

A multi-layer toy having at least one outer layer adjacent a planar layer or a ball where both the outer layer and the adjacent planar layer or ball each contain related information such that, in play, the information on the outer layer is made to align with the related information on the adjacent planar layer or ball. The information can comprise depictions of objects, things, characters, animals, or words, for a matching game, or the information can comprise numbers for a counting or mental math game. The toy is preferably sized to be hand-held.

The presently disclosed subject matter is directed to an interactive board game. The game includes a game board, one or more base pieces, a plurality of playing pieces, and at least one chance device (e.g., playing dice). The base pieces are inserted and/or adhered into apertures formed in the playing board and thus are used as foundations to support the playing pieces. The object of the game is to stack playing pieces vertically on the base pieces to create a tower structure. The playing pieces are constructed in a variety of shapes and sizes, each with an assigned value, such that successful stacking rewards the player with points.

A stacking cup is provided including a side wall having a rim on a first end thereof defining an upper opening; a bottom portion defined on a second end of the side wall such that the sidewall and the bottom portion define a vessel having the upper opening; at least one engaging element defined on the bottom portion the engaging element being configured to engage a portion of a rim of another cup such that the other cup is securely held by the engaging element.