Sorry to provide questions rather than a concrete answer... When I was a kid nobody but adults liked "educational" games. They were the highbrow equivalent of

Sorry to provide questions rather than a concrete answer... When I was a kid nobody but adults liked "educational" games. They were the highbrow equivalent of today's buying a massive electric Vespa to your 7-year old, with support wheels [1], just because it looks cool and you always wanted to have one, when you know that your kid will have more fun with a cardboard box. My questions are: What do you want to achieve with an "educational" game? Is it compatible with being a game, something that people play for fun? I guess that you want the kid to "learn" something. What is it that you want the child to learn? Do you expect the child to learn it by playing with it? Would you have fun with it yourself? (naive as that might sound, remember that kids tend to imitate behaviours and their preferences might correlate with yours due to environmental and genetic reasons). Having said that, I recently bought myself a set of Cuisenaire Rods [2], which were used in my classroom to learn basic arithmetic at that age :-) My adult self quickly found out how to calculate square roots with them. [1] http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_categoryId_165646_productId_899817_langId_-1 http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_st... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods