Rory's Story Cubes is less a game than a creativity machine. You roll the dice and link whatever icons come up into a story — that's the whole thing — which means there's no losing, no setup, and no reading required to start. For a kid who freezes at 'make something up,' the dice do the hard part and hand them a starting point.

It's a quiet win at home and a genuine tool in classrooms and speech therapy: storytelling, vocabulary, and sequencing without a worksheet in sight. It fits in a pocket, so it's also the rare car-and-restaurant rescue that builds something.