But it is at least just a restructuring bankruptcy, according to the article “The company will continue.”

Haba is/was an excellent company. Sure, all their games were for (very) young children, but my kids learned to count playing Monster Speziale, and it wasn’t just a roll and move. You could roll and move either clockwise or counterclockwise, which is more decisions than Monopoly, but a number that a kid could handle. Roll die (which I think was 1-2-3 only) and then tap the spaces one direction … does that work? No …. tap the spaces the other direction …. does that work? (You’d also have to determine if you wanted to add or lose the number of slices of pizza on the landing space).

Similarly, Highly Suspect is like a mini-Ricochet Robots, a spatial puzzle where you tilt the board and all the pawns slide to the end of the row (of the little maze like city) and you are trying to get the cop to catch the robbers, but you only get one or two tilts to move them. So, a great idea pared down to something small children can handle.

I remember my mother commenting that Candyland (etc) drove her crazy when I was a child, so any game a 3-5 year old likes that you can tolerate is a win. One that actually inspires kids to learn how to do some math (or thinking about what a board position will be after a move) is a blessing.