27 Parent-Approved Toys That Cost Less Than $25 But Offer Hours Of Entertainment

The set comes with 36 playing cards, 264 playing chips, caller’s mat and cards, and a storage box. Instead of calling out numbers, the leader calls out words (there are 46 commonly-used words), players search their cards for a match, and place a red chip on the match. Once a player has covered the spaces on their card needed to win, they call BINGO! 

Promising review: “My 4-year-old granddaughter and I go to the library every weekend. Once she’s chosen her books for the week, she loves to ‘check out’ the games in the children’s section. This was one that she wanted to play over and over and over. After the third go-round, I noticed that she was beginning to recognize some of the words on her own. That sold me! The minute I got home I purchased the game so she could play it at home. Every time I go over to her house, we play at least one round of this game, and I can tell her reading skills are increasing. And when we go to the library, she STILL wants to check this game out and play it there! The words on these bingo cards are words that can’t be illustrated well — words like ‘them,’ ‘her,’ ‘go,’ ‘if’ — small, mostly conjunctive words, but essential to reading. This game makes it easy and fun to learn those words. I simply can’t praise this game enough.” —Molly Harrington

Get it from Amazon for $9.05.