Smart Mouth is, well, smart. Using an appealing push-release mechanism, players get two letters. One must be the first letter in a word, and the second must be the last. First one to shout out a word gets the two letter tiles; the one with the most tiles at the end wins. The game clearly supports spelling and word work, and will definitely challenge third through fifth graders. Just make sure you play with evenly matched teams. If one kid's way behind another, or one is much shyer than the other, adult supervision will be required (to put it mildly.) With evenly matched teams, however, the possibilities are endless. (ThinkFun, 2 or more players, $17.00)