Thinkfun - Gravity Maze - Falling Marble Brain Game and Stem Toy for Kids Age 8 Years And Up

Excellent game ! I'm a children's counsellor and I Italy we were looking for a puzzle game to keep the children and parents amused as they were in the waiting room . However soon I took it into the counselling room as it is so good for kids to use , teaching them problem solving , using different parts of their brain , patience and non competitive. It is very hard but once you get over the hurdle how to start it , you learn from each new puzzle . It comes with a pack of cards with various puzzles you solve by laying the blocks out . The aim is simple , get the ball to run from the beginning to end - you start with a few set blocks then have a list of blocks you have to add . However it's a frustrating , fun , sometimes exhausting game that means your brain is constantly learning . There are about 60 levels , and I do suggest you start from the beginning and work up - as people who try to skip a stage usually ended up frustrated and stuck ! However it gets compulsive and I find appeals to all ages . I have a very smart 7 year old who can do it - runs rings around her mum and a 60 year old manger who can't get past level 2 ! Age is no barrier with this game - it's really good - simple idea but tons of fun and learning sneaked in ! Highly recommended - I play so many games and many of them don't keep children interested or nor adults , this is different it appeals to all ages and abilities and you come away eventually better for playing it .

This is an excellent idea for a puzzle game. Intriguing and clever and fun and genuinely tricky. Only trouble is that my daughter is whizzing through the puzzles and will finish them all shortly, so I hope that the manufacturers will consider writing some more and putting them online. If not, this'll be a really good toy with a short shelf-life.

A fun puzzle. Played for a couple of hours so far, and can imagine it becoming addictive. I do love the fact that the cards are numbered and gradually get more challenging. The game itself is well made and feels like good quality materials. Instructions are fairly straightforward. . However, here is an unnecessary reliance on colour to identify the blocks, and this makes it harder at lower light levels to select the correct towers for each puzzle. If they had used an additional identifier (like a number) then it would prevent errors and allow a colour blind person (like my husband) to play on their own! Otherwise a good, challenging puzzle.

Brilliant! I saw this on the facebook feed of a mighty girl. I have a bright engineering minded 6 yo girl so I bought it immediately. She loves it. In the first evening she worked her way through half the beginner cards. By the third one she had grasped the concept and was loving solving them and sharing her solutions with us then checking to see if she solved it the same way as the solution card. Keeps her totally focused for ages. Teaches spatial awareness and you can see her literally thinking her way through each drop and turn. Totally recommend this.

At first my son loved this! Simple to follow instructions and challenge cards to begin with that then increase the difficulty to keep kids entertained for hours. Well that's what we first thought. The one down side, which is a major one, is the shapes don't always fully align - even when in the correct order and pressed down or clicked. Individual blocks have to be in micro-mm positions for marble to drop through the entire maze in the later levels. We found that beyond level 20 every other challenge required blocks to pressed on or held together by hand to allow marble to flow - even with the help of an adult and using the solutions on the reverse of the card! My kid loves puzzles and enjoyed exploring his own way to answer each level. That joy became frustration at the later levels when the flow of the marble didn't work even though the connections are in the right order and "clicked in" to all corners. Joy would return the next challenge, then quickly back to disappointment when the next one didn't work. Great concept, if the edges aligned better this would be awesome.

This is such a fantastic game! Each level gets harder and harder, and even adults that have had a go have loved it and been stumped at some of the more difficult levels. It is a great game for keeping kids engaged when you can't play with them as it is a one player game. My 7 and 10 year olds love the more challenging mazes. I would definitely recommend it.

My son loves this, he’s 8 and very clever and he loves working this out although he does it a lot quicker than me.. fab quality as always and good for all ages

I bought this for my 9 year old granddaughter and I couldn't have chosen anything better. It kept her fascinated. The easier problems were a good start but she soon wanted to try the next level. There was no problem at all with the fact that her English is fairly basic. The graphic instructions are easy to follow.