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.

Click Here to get Paper Bees

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.

 

Lexigo, a word game from Wiggles 3D, has attracted the attention of Canadian families.

The Canadian Toy Testing Council (CTTC) awarded Lexigo their highest rating, the CTTC Three-Star Toy Seal in the 2011 Toy Report. Additionally, they judged it “a good choice for a birthday gift” because of its high quality and affordable price.

The CTTC is a non-profit organization evaluating toys since 1952.  Every year, Canadian children and their families test hundreds of toys in everyday settings to assess design, function, durability and play value. Based on these reviews, the Council rates each toy, awarding Three Stars, Two Stars, One Star, Novelty or Not Recommended.

This is the fourth award that Lexigo has won. Other awards are Good Housekeeping magazine’s Best Toy Awards 2010, The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award 2010 and the Creative Child Magazine’s Game of the Year 2010 in the category for educational word games. 

Lexigo, the game of crazy spelling fun, offers a new take on traditional letter-tile games. Words can be spelled in any direction—forwards, backwards or in a twisting path. Sold in a hexagon-shaped tube, Lexigo contains 100 letter tiles and a convenient cloth travel pouch. Lexigo is available at Barnes and Noble, Toys “R” Us, select Targetlocations, Amazon.com and specialty retail stores.

For more information about the CTTC Toy Report, visit http://www.toy-testing.org/toy_reports_2011.html.