Wednesday, November 16, 2011

2011 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE - PERPLEXUS review


ABOUT THE PRODUCT
Easy to Play, Hard to Master
The Perplexus Original Maze Game is a clear sphere filled with multicolored pathways covering different areas of the sphere's interior. A small metal ball rolls around on the inside, and it's your job to guide that ball through the maze to its end. Once the ball is balanced in its starting position, it's easy to start rolling it around the tracks. By the time you've learned the different passageways, you'll realize that even though it's easy to play, all the different ways of moving around are hard to master!
Flip, Twist, and Spin Your Way through the Maze
Moving through the different pathways is a wacky exercise in spatial reasoning and stimulates your cognitive reasoning. As you move the ball along one track, you find that it's never long before you reach a different colored track that requires you to flip, twist, and spin the sphere 90 degrees one way or another to keep the ball rolling. Twist around corners, flip from the yellow to the orange ramp, spin around the various curves--if you fall off the track, just get back on and try again!
Race Yourself, Your Friends, and the Clock
If you work hard enough and make it to the end of the maze, congratulate yourself, and then turn it into a racetrack! Keep track of your personal best times and race against the clock. You can also race against your friends' times, or stage races with multiple Perplexus Mazes!
3 Races and 100 Challenging Barriers to Master
The Perplexus Maze Game includes a super spiral, a tightrope, and a swing arm to form 3 different puzzles and 100 challenging barriers to discover and overcome. Share it with your friends and family as you try to uncover all the patterns and obstacles, but be careful--Perplexus Original is so addicting that once you let it go, you might not get it back!
What's in the Box
Perplexus maze and stand.

MY THOUGHTS

My family quickly all became addicted to this toy even my little girls.  Now I have to say I did not think in the beginning that I would enjoy it as much as I really have.  It is fun to see my whole family fighting over it.  I recommend getting each kid one if you have more than one kid like we do. The sad part to me though is that I still have not made it completely around it!  LOL

We are already planning on getting my fiancee's mom one for Christmas.  She loves things like this so I know she will love it .  Also they have 2 other designs which include the Perplexus Rookie (which has fewer obstacles) and the Perplexus Epic (which has more obstacles) so you can increase or decrease depending on your needs.

You can purchase the Original Perplexus and the other 2 online at Amazon.com and mass retailers that sell toys and puzzles and games.  The Original is $19.49 currently on Amazon.com.  So be sure to get one for that person in your family who loves puzzles and also be sure to get one for you.  I am sure after you see it you will want to play it too.

* I received the above mentioned product solely for review purposes.  The above mentioned opinion is completely honest and completely my own.

1 comment:

  1. This sounds like a really cool & fun toy.. I need to get one of these for the grandkids to play with when they come to visit.. I bet all of them would love it.
    Nice review Thank You

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