Library of Things

 

The Wyckoff Library offers a variety of games and tech items for Wyckoff cardholders to borrow. The library offers games, kits, and technology equipment in support of our mission, “To enrich the lives of all residents, encouraging them to connect, discover, learn and create.” Please read the policy here. More coming soon!

Game Systems

Nintendo Entertainment System

The NES Classic Edition system is a miniaturized version of the groundbreaking NES, originally released in 1985. Just plug the NES Classic Edition into your TV, pick up that gray controller, and rediscover the joy of NES games. Enjoy 30 pre-uploaded games such as Metroid, Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 3, Donkey Kong, Balloon Fight and The Legend of Zelda. These retro games are an all-time favorite of every gaming enthusiast.

Super Nintendo

The Super NES Classic Edition system looks and feels just like the original ’90s home console, except it’s super small. Get your hands on some of the best 2-player games of the era, including Super Mario Kart and Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting – a total of 21 games!

Atari Flashback 9 Gold

Atari flashback 9 Gold features 120 built-in games, including Atari 2600 greatest hits. It comes with two 2.4G wireless Controllers and supports HDMI output (720p HD display). Favorite games include: Asteroids, Frogger and Space Invaders.

Steam Kits

Bloxels

Build your own video games with Bloxels! The innovative video game creation platform makes concepting and execution easy. Watch your game world come to life as you create and animate play spaces, characters and objects because you are the artist, game designer, storyteller, programmer, publisher AND player! The physical pieces in the Bloxels game set work with the free Bloxels Builder app to digitize your creations, put them on-screen and make them playable. Recommended for ages 8+. Must login with library account.

Dash & Dot

Two award-winning robots, Dot and Dash, help teach kids ages 6+ easy block-based coding that gives them the logic and problem-solving skills they’ll need in middle school, high school, and beyond. 5 free apps can be downloaded for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire 8 or later and have hundreds of hours of challenges to help your kids master complex strings of code. Used by over 20, 000 classrooms worldwide, Wonder Workshop robots are way more than just a toy. They’re an innovative and fun way to learn coding skills.

Dash & Dot Accessory Pack

The Accessory Pack comes with 4 building brick connectors, 1 tow hook, 1 bulldozer bar, 1 set of bunny ears and tail, and 1 xylophone & mallet. 

Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit

Build your own wand that responds to your movements. Learn to code with step-by-step creative challenges. Make magic on a screen (tablet not included), with a wave, twist, and twirl. Create, share, and play with the Kano community. No coding experience necessary. Recommended for ages 6+ .

Little Bits STEAM Student Set

The easy-to-use electronic building blocks snap together with magnets empowering kids to create inventions, large and small. Each color-coded Bit has a specific function (e.g. lights, sensors, motors, inputs, and outputs) and is reusable for infinite number of inventions. Comes with 19 BITS Including power, light sensor, temperature sensor, motors, buzzer, LED, button, fan, number, dimmer, pulse, and more; 40 Accessories including wheels, mounting boards, mechanical arms, screws, battery, magnet shoes, & more. Learn engineering design cycle – create, play, remix, share. Gain creative confidence and 21st century skills: critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication. All activities are unplugged – no need for a computer or tablet.

Snap Circuits

Give your child an exciting, hands-on introduction to electronics with Elenco Electronics Snap Circuits SC-300. This kit contains over 60 color-coded, real circuit components that snap together to create working electronic circuits and devices. Recommended for children 8 and older, this set offers 305 do-it-yourself projects that will give your child an entertaining, concrete education on how electronics work.

Snap Circuits Green Energy

Elenco’s Snap Circuits Green Energy STEM building kit teaches the fundamentals of building electronic circuits and how they interact with various green energy technologies. The blocks are colored and numbered to make them easy to identify during the building process. Kids will have hours of fun creating over 125 different circuit projects and learning about alternative energy including wind, solar, water and other green energy sources with this STEM building set. Ages 8 years and up.

Snap Circuits Light

Give your child an exciting, hands-on introduction to electronics with Elenco Electronics Snap Circuits Light. This innovative kit contains over 55 color-coded, real circuit components that snap together to create working electronic circuits and devices. Recommended for children 8 and older, this set offers 175 plus do-it-yourself projects that will give your child an entertaining, concrete education on how electronics work.

Stikbot Zanimation Studio

Stikbots are posable sticky bots who will adhere to almost any flat surface thanks to their suction-cup hands and feet. Their unique design allows stikbots to be posed in countless ways – limbs, torso, and even their neck can be positioned in almost any angle imaginable! BEWARE – Stikbots are ridiculously fun and extremely addictive to play with!
Using the Stikbot Studio 2.0 App, kids ages 5 and up can learn stop motion animation techniques, bringing these toys to life. Kids can use their phone camera, pose the action figures, film and edit their Stikbots in a stop motion animation, quickly and easily.

Board Games

Azul

Azul, designed by the world famous, award winning game author Michael Kiesling captures the beautiful aesthetics of Moorish art in a contemporary board game. Players compete as artisans decorating the walls of the Royal Palace of Evora. By carefully drafting the correct quantity and style of tiles, the cleverest of artisans plan ahead to maximize the beauty of their work (not to mention their scores!) while ensuring they wasted no supplies in the process. Recommended for ages 8+, 2-4 players.

Catan

Picture yourself in the era of discoveries: after a long voyage of great deprivation, your ships have finally reached the coast of an uncharted island. Its name shall be CATAN! But you are not the only discoverer. Other fearless seafarers have also landed on the shores of CATAN: the race to settle the island has begun! Recommended for ages 10+, 3-4 players. Read more at: https://www.catan.com/game/catan

Chicken Cha Cha Cha

Today, there is chaos in the chicken yard!!! Each chicken has to catch each of their opponents without being caught themselves. Their reward for catching another chicken is tail feathers. The first chicken to have all tail feathers is the winner! But only a chicken who knows what is in the chicken yard will be able to catch the others and win the game. A creative memory game. Recommended for ages 4+, 2-4 players.

Codenames

The teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin. Codenames: win or lose, it’s fun to figure out the clues. Recommended for ages 14+, 2-8 players.

King of Tokyo

Play mutant monsters, gigantic robots and other monstrous creatures, rampaging the city and vying for position as the one and only King of Tokyo! Combine your dice to gather energy, heal your monster or just slap the other monsters down! Spend your energy to trigger permanent or one-shot special powers: a second head, body armor, nova death ray…Stop at nothing to become the King of Tokyo! Recommended for ages 8+, 2-6 players. Here’s a video showing how to play.

Pandemic

Only through teamwork will you have a chance to find a cure. Pandemic is a cooperative board game in which players work as a team to treat infections around the world while gathering resources for cures. The game’s unique combination of cooperative gameplay, engrossing premise, and compelling design have proved a hit with everyone from hardcore gamers to casual players.  Recommended for ages 8+, 2-4 players.

Rat-a-tat Cat

A game of suspense, strategy, and anticipation. Get rid of the high cards (rats) and go for the low cards (cats). Sneak a peek, draw two, or swap cards for an added twist. Low score wins the game. (A poker face helps!) Rat-a-tat Cat requires skill, strategy, and awareness, challenging both young children and adults. Recommended for ages 6+, 2-6 players.

7 Wonders

You are the leader of one of the 7 great cities of the Ancient World. Gather resources, develop commercial routes, and affirm your military supremacy. Build your city and erect an architectural wonder which will transcend future times.7 Wonders lasts three ages. In each age, players receive seven cards from a particular deck, choose one of those cards, then pass the remainder to an adjacent player. Players reveal their cards simultaneously, paying resources if needed or collecting resources or interacting with other players in various ways. Recommended for ages 10+, 3-7 players.

Ticket to Ride

Ticket to Ride is a cross-country train adventure in which players collect and play matching train cards to claim railway routes connecting cities throughout North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who can fulfill their Destination Tickets by connecting two distant cities, and to the player who builds the longest continuous railway. Recommended for ages 8+, 2-5 players.