Alphabet Runner Cards - 2009

Multi award-winning games designer Rasib Khan entered the  Online version of Dragons Den armed with a written licensing offer, written pre-orders from retailers together with very positive verbal feed back from buyers and product develop mangers from major games distributors for his fun educational language tool, Alphabet Runner.

The lack of understanding and enthusiasm of the educational value or the uniqueness of the cards by the online dragons shocked Rasib Khan., even taking into account his nervous presentation. The inventor said that his fourteen unique cards are easier to remember then 26 single letters and children can learn by simply playing fun games such as snap and a memory game called pairs or a brain training word game by dealing seven cards.

He said: "Dragon Shaf Rasul persistently doubted the value of my affordable, fun, educational language tool and then wanted to know how he could get his money back. Well, more than 80,000 people have downloaded the free cards from the website to print and play. This is very time consuming and expensive and almost all would prefer to pay £1 for professional quality cards."

Alphabet Runner has received the Good Toy Guide Award 2006, Best Family Game UK Games Expo 2007, The Best Innovation Finalist 2006 and IAB Small Outstanding Business Finalist 2007.

Rasib Khan added: "I have spent five years on research and development and have had a stand at the UK Toy Fair for three years and The Educational Show NEC. The Alphabet Runner 2007 UK Championship Tournament was held at the UK Games Expo.  My website is attracting visitors from 70 Countries with 30% from the USA, 30% from Europe and 30% from the UK."