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2024/25 Game Of The Year Winner

The HPCA awards were established in 2000.

Each year, more than 200 companies are invited to submit games which are then put through a rigorous process.... For the last twenty years, on average, more than 400 entries have been received annually.

The criteria are as follows:

• Submitted games must have an educational value.

• Each game must be suitable for children and families with a minimum age playing range of three years old.

• Games must intrinsically have the ability to improve one or more of the following skills: Thinking skills, visual perception, spatial awareness, sequencing, hand/eye co-ordination and/or fine motor control, numeracy and literacy skills.

The judging is done in three stages... At the initial stage, a team of Master Puzzlers test all of the games... The criteria on which they score on must include overall educational value, quality of manufacture, durability, ease of play and value for money.

The initial pool of games is then whittled down to around of 50.

In the second round, the 50 games are judged by a secondary parent/educator panel, who have not been involved in the first round, although they can refer to the panel from the first round.

At this stage, the primary contenders are identified, normally a maximum of 25 games.

In the third round, the awards are actually allocated and the manufacturers are notified.

Sometimes, it has been deemed necessary to make more than one award in each category, simply because more than one game is worthy of the award.

This is a long process which takes three months from the beginning of May until the end of July and the awards are announced each year in November.

THE 2024/25 WINNERS ARE..

2024/25 Game Of The Year Overall Winner - Red Herrings

2024/25 Game Of The Year Runner Up - Quixagons, Caesar's Calendar

2024/25 Game Of The Year Runners Up - So Clover

2024/25 Brainteaser Of The Year - IQ Gears

2024/25 Junior Game Of The Year - Underground Brain Train

2024/25 Educational Award - Speedy Numbers

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CAESARS CALENDAR

CAESARS CALENDAR

£14.99

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IQ GEARS

IQ GEARS

£14.99

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QUIXAGONS

QUIXAGONS

£16.99

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RED HERRINGS

RED HERRINGS

£19.99

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SO CLOVER

SO CLOVER

£19.99

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SPEEDY NUMBERS

SPEEDY NUMBERS

£12.99

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UNDERGROUND BRAIN TRAIN

UNDERGROUND BRAIN TRAIN

£19.99

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