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If you don't like this game, don't sue me. Sue the New York Game Factory, the manufacturer, which I'm sure has caused you millions of dollars of damages in the form of mental anguish Board games — some for children, some for adults — are getting increasingly edgy. The game Hot Flashes promises "to take menopausal women on a laugh-filled learning experience." With playing cards like "Raging Hormones" and "Oh, You Wench!," players compete to be the first to enter "Hormone Free Haven."

If you're exceedingly worried about your child's fragile little psyche, however, perhaps you should be playing the Self-Esteem Game, "the game where everybody's a winner."

4. Talking Gift Bows:

The day is coming when everything you own will have a computer chip, even your gift wrapping. Thanks to Forever Ribbons, you can now record a 10-second message in a bow that you can keep forever.

Of course, less sentimental people might think of re-gifting the Forever Ribbon. Don't worry. You can set the personal message in a way that it can't be re-recorded, making this ribbon the tie that binds.