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Amazon.com has Quirkle and Quirkle Cubes. The actual game is for 2-4 players, but like ElizabethN said you can also play with them by yourself. I believe it is rated for 6 and up. Pretty much anything by MindWare is good! As far as that goes anything by ThinkFun, the makers of Rush Hour is also good.

I just checked - Amazon.com also has Pentominoes and they are as you described above - reminds me of Tetris. I also just saw this which is sort of similar.
Katamino - http://www.amazon.com/Gigamic-8051-Katamino-Game/dp/B0009H9SUC/

Tantrix are also a bit like Pentominoes - flat tiles with colored squiggles. You can try to match your tiles to a specified shape or play a game with other kids where you take turns playing your tiles while matching the colored squiggles to form a puzzle.

We liked the flip cards of Brain Quest better than the books. The books are more like workbooks compared to the Q/A of the cards.

There are "extreme" dot to dot and maze books, which was what I was thinking when I mentioned those - probably like what is on the site you mentioned.

Ooh, if we're talking games, how about Tsuro?

Uh, now this is getting way too fun. In my cart:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009H9SUC/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2Y7JET69Q6TGZ

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593630468/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009W22QE/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1Q661ZU0XF2OZ

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0032UKQFO/ref=ox_sc_act_title_5?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
(chess is taught at his school starting in K)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007BQBQIQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_6?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0894558730/ref=ox_sc_act_title_7?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3IQ5E8MTVFLWN

Uh, no math books. I do have the Math for the Gifted Student one. And no reading/writing ones. But I have a teachers' supply store nearby...I find that with those, I often need to flip through them.

"Uh, no math books. I do have the Math for the Gifted Student one. And no reading/writing ones. But I have a teachers' supply store nearby...I find that with those, I often need to flip through them."

My kids love love love the Buki Books Calc-u-color (or colour). Unlike so many math coloring sheets, it's actually hard to tell what the picture is until it's colored. The one available in the US has pretty hard 2-digit arithmetic with parentheses, but I got a set of 3 from Australia that are at different levels. The lowest has only addition and subtraction less than 15. Maybe first grade level? Probably beyond the other kinders, but a fun kind of worksheet if that's what the rest of the class is doing.

Buki has a variety of math+art+puzzle books that might suit your purpose. Some educator's shops have a good selection.

The Solitaire Chess looks interesting! We may need that!

We do like the Life of Fred books if you don't already have those and want to spring for some. They would be reading and math combined.

You can get a single set for $2.50 at this link or click on the group set on the page for a tub of 72 for $14.95:
http://www.didax.com/shop/productde.../StartRow/1/ShowAll/No/ItemNo/2-4151.cfm

You can purchase cards or books like these that present outlines where the kids have to find the correct pentominoes to fill in the outline or create the shape:
http://www.amazon.com/Pentomino-Pat...d=1377905431&sr=1-2&keywords=pentominoes

http://www.amazon.com/Pentomino-Puz...d=1377905379&sr=1-1&keywords=pentominoes

Or you can search for pentomino worksheets to find and print worksheets like these and laminate them:
http://coekate.murraystate.edu/media/professors/files/gierhart/pentominoes.pdf

Also what about mad libs - grammar and writing, and so silly and fun.
Stack the states games
Top Secret from highlights has a lot of word search, find things directed toward solving a whodunit and very geography oriented with counting and reading and writing in the games

Fun to think of this stuff. I was talking with a bunch of moms with kids younger than mine who I don't know well and they never met DS, I mentioned the top secret and something else, and one mom said wow you're so educational - and I immediately stopped contributing and thought whoops, wrong crowd, because I couldn't tell if she thought I was nuts or good.

Critical thinking are awesome if you want workbooks
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http://www.mindware.com/MyAccount/RequestCatalog/RequestCatalog.aspx

Their printed catalog is easier to read than their online catalog which you can access here:

http://www.mindware.com/CustomerService/DigitalCatalog.aspx

Anyhow, they have tons hot games and workbooks:

http://www.mindware.com/c/brain-teaser-games-for-kids/3
http://www.mindware.com/c/educational-games-for-young-children/11