Board games in wood: ludo, draughts and family classics

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  • Rainbow Wooden Tumbling Tower & Balance Stacking Game - Montessori Wooden Educational Toy Jouets Montessori

    Rainbow Wooden Tumbling Tower & Balance Stacking Game

    £29.99

    Crafted from smooth natural wood, this authentic rainbow wooden tumbling tower & balance stacking game provides toddlers from 1 year with an enriching tactile experience that inspires self-directed discovery.

    Designed to nurture fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, it introduces fundamental concepts through calm, focused hands-on play.

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  • Giant wooden draughts game and chess set Jouets Montessori

    Giant Outdoor Wooden Chess & Draughts Board Game

    £50.99

    This giant draughts game turns a lawn or patio into a playing table for children from age 6 and the adults who take them on. The 85 x 85 cm play area also hosts chess, and the wooden pieces, 6.5 cm across, are picked up and moved with a whole hand.

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  • Giant Wooden Barricade Strategy Board Game (XXL) - Montessori Wooden Educational Toy Jouets Montessori

    Giant Wooden Barricade Strategy Board Game (XXL)

    £60.99

    Crafted from smooth natural wood, this authentic giant wooden barricade strategy board game provides toddlers from 1 year with an enriching tactile experience that inspires self-directed discovery.

    Designed to nurture fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, it introduces fundamental concepts through calm, focused hands-on play.

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  • Gift Wrapping Service & Personalised Greeting Card Jouets Montessori

    Gift option

    £2.99

    Is your order a gift? We will be happy to wrap it to surprise your recipient!

    Gift wrapping: Whether the order is for a girl or a boy, we offer different types of gift wrap.

    Gift card: A message to pass? We include in your order a card with your personalized message.

    Warning: This option is not possible with gripper balls.

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  • Compact Wooden Travel Ludo Game - Montessori Educational Toy Jouets Montessori

    Compact Wooden Travel Ludo Game

    £9.99

    A portable solid wood Ludo set crafted from 100% FSC-certified wood. The folding wooden board doubles as a secure storage case for all playing pegs and wooden dice on family travels.

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  • Memory matching pairs, 12 x 6 cm Jouets Montessori

    Montessori Memory & Language Matching Cards

    £16.99

    A memory card game for children aged 3 and up, sold by theme: numbers, opposites, telling the time, or a surprise set. Children first find the pairs face up while naming what they see, then turn everything over for a proper match-the-cards memory game.

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  • Wooden Peg Deduction Logic Game - Montessori Educational Toy Jouets Montessori

    Wooden Peg Deduction Logic Game

    £24.99

    An ingenious wooden deduction game where players test peg orientations and lengths to fit 5 wooden rods correctly into corresponding holes. Can be played as a solo brain teaser or a thrilling head-to-head race.

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  • Premium Wooden Rummikub Family Board Game - View 1 Jouets Montessori

    Premium Wooden Rummikub Family Board Game

    £34.99

    A smash-hit family favourite! Rummikub is a timeless strategy and numbers board game that brings all generations together for hours of engaging discovery.

    This premium edition features solid natural wooden tile racks (27 x 7.5 x 1 cm) and tactile engraved wooden number tiles (3.5 x 2.5 x 0.5 cm).

    Boosts mental arithmetic, tactical foresight, and numerical sequencing from 6 to 99 years.

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  • Giant Wooden Ludo Board Game XXL - Montessori Educational Toy Jouets Montessori

    Giant Wooden Ludo Board Game XXL

    £63.99

    An extra-large solid wood Ludo board game with chunky, tactile playing figures and an oversized wooden die. Specially created for effortless grasping by little hands and multi-generational play.

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  • Wooden games compendium with 20 classic board games Jouets Montessori

    20 Classic Wooden Board Games Compendium

    £82.99

    This wooden games compendium gathers 20 classic board games and over 80 variations in one sturdy box, from chess and draughts to ludo and backgammon. Designed for ages 6 and up, it lets children and grown-ups sit down together for a proper game night, with no screens in sight.

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Wooden board games bring the whole family round the table, from a first colour lotto at age 3 to rummikub, chess and a compendium of 20 classics for older children and grown-ups. Solid pieces and simple rules make the first rounds easy to explain.

Board games for 5 year olds and under

The first games ask a child to match rather than to win, much like the sorting work of other Montessori teaching toys: a colour lotto with four boards, animal memory tiles, fur and pattern pairs. Taking turns is the real lesson, and a round lasts about as long as a three-year-old can sit still. From 4, a travel or Scandinavian ludo brings dice, counting and the thrill of sending someone back home, while the tumbling tower and spring mikado call for a steady hand.

With a three-year-old, lay the memory tiles face up at first, so the game is simply spotting pairs, then turn a few more over each round until the whole set is played face down.

Classic two-player board games

For a quiet evening between two, draughts, chess or the peg deduction game, where one player hides a colour code and the other works it out, are good choices. Tri-dominoes and shut the box, a traditional dice game, work just as well for two as for a crowd.

Family games for the table and the garden

When cousins come round, the giant XXL ludo game, a barricade strategy game and an outdoor chess and draughts set move play onto the lawn. Indoors, rummikub from age 7 and the compendium boxes keep a mixed-age table busy, with something for every player.

How to set up a backgammon board

Backgammon often sits on the reverse of a compendium board. Each player has 15 checkers: counting from your own side, place two on point 24, five on point 13, three on point 8 and five on point 6, and your opponent mirrors this. You then move in opposite directions, racing to bring all 15 home.