Finger Tips, a matching game for young children, picked up a Best Bet Award this month from the Canadian Toy Testing Council. This is the third honour the
finger-puppet inspired game has scooped up this year.

As an award winner, Finger Tips will be featured in the Canadian Toy Testing Council’s Toy Report 2013. The report is celebrating its 60th year of families evaluating games for families. Each year, the council co-ordinates having a slate of games tested by children in their homes over an 8-week time frame. The toy evaluations reflect the children’s feelings about the toys.

Finger Tips, published by Wiggles 3D, launched in February at New York Toy Fair. It won Dr. Toy’s 100 Best Picks Children’s Products Awards Program for 2012 and a 2012 Family Review Center Gold Award. Finger Tips features hand-shaped cards with colourful finger-puppet characters. Created for children ages three and up, it offers a fun way to learn matching skills, memory skills and hand-eye coordination.

The Testing Council uses a star system to rate all games, with three stars being granted to the best games. Finger Tips not only received a three-star rating, but also made it into the Best Bets category, which lists the children’s top 36 favourite games. Children who tested Finger Tips “especially like[d] the unique card shape and the cute animal pictures…various difficulty levels give these cards play value for multiple ages.” Parents also “appreciate[d] the multi-racial hands” in the deck.

The report also recommends Finger Tips as a birthday gift. The game can be purchased for $9.99 at specialty stores nationwide.

Watch out for flying saucers! An alien-themed dice game published by Wiggles 3D won its first award this month.

Tillywig Toy Awards presented the game Army vs. Aliens with the Sterling Fun Award, which honors “distinctive children’s products notable for their exceptional quality and bold originality.” Army vs. Aliens, released November 2011, is a dice game that features generals and tanks trying to fight off an alien invasion of Earth.

Tillywig Toy Awards’ mission is to provide retail buyers, news media, parents, and consumers with product information and reviews of current children's products. Products are evaluated by a variety of testers in an observed focus-group format. The testing team at Tillywig made special note of the portability of the game, as well as the swift game play, which lets players be “very engaged from start to finish.”

Army vs. Aliens is the first of a series of dice-elimination games planned by Wiggles 3D. The game consists of 18 custom dice—9 for each team—and two dice cups. Players try to capture their opponents dice by rolling powerful combinations.

The dice cups snap together to create a carrying case. Army vs. Aliens is designed for players aged eight and up. Its suggested retail price is $15.99, and it is available at independent retailers in the United States and Canada.

London, ON – April 18, 2012 – London game publisher Wiggles 3D continues to expand with the launch of a new, bee-themed game app this week—amid a hive of other activity at this 10-year old business.

The new app, called Paper Bees, is now available on the App Store and through iTunes. This continues the company’s new development thrust into the digital realm. Wiggles 3D released a digital app for the game brand Eye Know, a licensed property, last fall and a scoring app for its Ding! card game earlier this year.

Paper Bees app is a playful action game that presents players with 30 different game levels. Players are asked to help bees defend their flowers and hive against a stream of unwelcome pests, including stink bugs, mosquitoes and exploding beetles. Levels move through a meadow, a swamp and a winter landscape. The game is designed for the iPad and 4th Generation iPhones, with players flinging bees by swiping their fingers across their touchscreens. The bees’ allies show up to give them extra powers, including flames and ice crystals. The game sells for $1.99. It is rated for players age 4 and up and was designed to have a broad appeal with all ages.

The launch of Paper Bees is just part of the current activity at Wiggles 3D. It launched four new games at Toy Fair in New York this past February. The new games are FingerTips, a matching card game and the company’s first game for preschoolers; Randomonium, a word-based party game; Space Checkers, an alien-themed strategy game; and Army vs. Aliens, a fast-paced dice game. The games are being sold internationally.

These product launches follow on the back of a December 2011 transaction with Mattel. Mattel, the world’s largest game company, has purchased Wiggle 3D’s Pass the Popcorn brand. The popular movie game, which is sold in over 6,000 stores internationally, was developed by Wiggles 3D and has been an important part of the product lineup since the fall of 2009. Mattel took over the brand on March 31, 2012.

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Wiggles 3D Games is thrilled to announce that one of their newest games, Ding!, has received top ratings in the Canadian Toy Testing Council's Toy Report for 2012.

The report presents ratings of hundreds of new toys that have been released in Canada in 2011. Every game submitted gets tested by children, and ratings are based on their feedback.

The Toy Report uses stars to rate the games. Three stars are granted to the best games, two stars indicate a good game, one star means a game is problematic and no stars indicates that the game is not recommended.

In The Toy Report 2012, Ding! received three stars, which means it was ranked as one of the best games of 2012 for ages 8 and up.

Follow this link to view the full Canadian Toy Testing Council Toy Report for 2012:
http://toy-testing.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/8+1.pdf

London, ON – Dec. 5, 2011 – A new iPad game that brings photos to life in a whole new way to test your visual memory. The game, called Eye Know Everything, can be downloaded for free on the App Store until Nov. 26.

Eye Know Everything features over 250 images, including pictures of animals, landmarks, maps, symbols and more. The app, which is set up for both solo games and multiple players, presents users with blurred, scrambled and swirled pictures that gradually become crisp images. The faster players identify the images, the more points they score.

Eye Know Everything comes from game developer Wiggles 3D. The Eye Know brand is based on the Eye Know board game, a visual trivia betting game that combines images and trivia questions and is a 2008 winner of the Mensa Select award. Other products in the Eye Know line are a Booster Pack of 100 extra game cards and a free companion iPad app, which is designed to be used with the board game.

The Eye Know Everything app is available for free on the iPad App Store until Nov. 26—after that it will be $0.99. The original Eye Know board game is available at Barnes & Noble, and both the original game and the Booster Pack are available at specialty retail stores and through leading U.S. catalogs. The suggested retail price is $7.95 for the Booster Pack and $29.99 for the original Eye Know game. The board game is recommended for two or more players, aged 14 and over.

London, ON Canada – October 5, 2011 – Eye Know has gone digital. Players of the visual trivia game can now boost their board games with a new iPad app.

The new app, now available on the App Store, is a companion product to the Eye Know board game. The free application currently features over 150 new images in 8 different animation sequences. The publisher, Wiggles 3D, plans to keep adding additional images through future updates.

The app presents players with blurred, scrambled and swirled pictures that gradually shift into crisp images of many different subjects including people, animals, symbols and more. Players receive points by correctly guessing the images. The faster they identify the images, the more points they receive.

The original Eye Know board game is a visual trivia betting game that combines images and trivia questions and is a 2008 winner of the Mensa Select award. A regular Eye Know game consists of five turns for each player. The Eye Know app extends the game to seven turns for each player—five turns from the printed question cards and two turns from the iPad.

Also new this year is an Eye Know Booster Pack, containing 100 new images and 300 new trivia questions. The original Eye Know board game is available at Barnes & Noble, and both the original game and the Booster Pack are available at specialty retail stores and through leading U.S. catalogs. The suggested retail price is $7.95 for the Booster Pack and $29.99 for the original Eye Know game.

The game is recommended for two or more players, aged 14 and over.

London, ON Canada – Sept. 1, 2011

Have you always wanted to call the shots on a movie set? If so, now you have your chance with the History of Movies Film Festival. And if you appeal to the masses you could walk away with cash in your pocket.

The Pass the Popcorn History of Movies Film Festival is asking movie lovers to send in their own video versions of their favorite movie scenes. Pass the Popcorn is a popular line of movie and pop culture trivia published by Wiggles 3D.

The Festival is accepting submissions until the end of September. The 16 most entertaining entries will go head-to-head in an online tournament in October. Viewers will vote on Facebook to decide which clips move on to the next round. The best clips will compete for three $100 prizes, two $200 prizes and one Grand Prize of $500.

Aspiring directors can submit as many entries as they like. Contestants are asked to base their two-minute entries on movie quotes provided by Pass the Popcorn. Entries are due by Sept. 30, 2011.

Find out more about the contest at http://apps.facebook.com/historyofmovies/.

London, ON Canada – Aug. 22, 2011

Movie lovers now have a whole new way to talk about their favorite films, thanks to a new card game that’s hitting stores this fall. 

The Movie Snap card game from publisher Wiggles 3D is part of the popular Pass the Popcorn trivia line. The fast-paced card game asks players to remember details about cast, characters and plot. Players race to match movie titles with their hand of cards about movie characteristics. These special cards cover movie plots, such as whether a movie features a road trip or time travel, as well as details about titles and stars. The first player to match their detail cards to movie titles wins the game.

The Pass the Popcorn Movie Snap card game is for players 10 and up and can be played with two or more players. The portable card game will be available at Barnes & Noble and Meijer stores in September. The suggested retail price is $7.95. 

London, ON Canada – Aug. 3, 2011

Lovers of visual trivia can now test even more of their knowledge. The Eye Know Booster Pack arrives in stores this month.

The Booster Pack was developed to meet player demand for more of the award-winning Eye Know game, says Don Reid, president of Wiggles 3D, the publisher of the game. “Eye Know is a favorite of anyone who plays it.” Eye Know was a 2008 winner of a Mensa Select award. It was also named Creative Child magazine’s 2008 Game of the Year in the Trivia Game category.

Eye Know is a trivia game that blends guessing images with trivia questions and betting. It combines the best of trivia and poker in a game where cards and game chips are collected throughout as players identify visuals, answer trivia questions and place strategic bets on what they think they know about the topic.

The Eye Know Booster Pack includes 100 new cards with 100 new images and 300 new trivia questions. The cards are divided into the game’s four categories, Natural World, Made Objects, People & Characters and Signs & Symbols.

The original Eye Know board game is available at Barnes & Noble, and both the original game and the Booster Pack are available at specialty retail stores and through leading U.S. catalogs. The suggested retail price is $7.95 for the Booster Pack and $29.99 for the original Eye Know game.

London, ON Canada – February 11, 2011 - Wiggles 3D is delighted to reveal their newest game Ding at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.

Ding is a unique card game that combines the fun of trick-taking and trump card games like Hearts or Spades, with the card strategies of draw Poker and the ultimate game changer – spelling D-i-n-g with the letter cards.

Players move around on the board by competing to win tricks. You take tricks either one by one by having the highest card of the suit lead, playing the highest trump card or by playing a Ding! – a special move that propels you forward while sending your opponents backwards.

Players declare if they are IN or OUT for each hand and in draw poker style are given the chance to draw new cards to try and improve their chances. If you are IN on a round, you need to take at least one trick a hand or you’ll move backwards, further away from the Finish line.

“We are excited to premiere Ding at the New York International Toy Fair,” said Don Reid, president of Wiggles 3D. “It’s a fresh and fun new take on card games for the family and the perfect addition to our portfolio of games.”

Toy Fair 2011 will take place February 13-16, 2011 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Attendees can see Ding and other award-winning games from Wiggles 3D at booth is #6133, game zone.

Ding is a great new game for the whole family and will be carried in major and specialty retailers this spring.  The game is recommended for 3-8 players, aged 8 and over.