A handful of toys are on sale at Amazon.com through Sunday. Okay, several handfuls. As always, lots of chaff with your Wheaties here, but here are two we like:

Mystery Garden Game

Ravensburger's Mystery Garden was, at one point, my nephew's favorite game. Combine Twenty Questions, I Spy, and path-based boardgaming and this is what you get. The density of objects on the gameboard gives this game far greater longevity than you'd think, and the mural-style drawing compares favorably against I Spy games' random piles of junk-dumped-out-of-a-bucket.


Mystery Garden is on sale for $9 and change, from its regular price of $15.

Plan Toys Trike

We haven't used this Plan Toys Wooden Trike, but we love the brand and their construction (and timber sourcing) is always sound. It's the prices of Plan toys we sometimes don't like, so this item's 58% discount means you can get a really nice wooden trike for $58.25 instead of $140.


The MSRP listed on Amazon appears to be legit -- we checked it on Kangarooboo and Oompa for comparison, and they're both selling it for $140 too. Ouch. But $58? That's a good price!

Safety First!

Someone should really tell the folks at Amazon to get this out of their Toy and Game sale... Oh, wait, they do have it labeled as "Not for children under 3 years." It's all good!

The Whole Shebang

Don't need a curator? Check out all of the toys included in Amazon's Toy Sale. Just make sure to click on the category tabs near the top; the main page isn't paginated for some reason.

(h/t Baby Cheapskate)