Think Fun ThinkFun Amaze

Let me first tell you what it is NOT. It is NOT cheaply made, not stupid, not boring, not impossible to solve on the simplest setting.It is quiet - very nice for nap times, office waiting hours, car rides, restaurants - anything. It is one piece - the plastic pen-stick is connected to the body. It has four sliding sections - each section has a different number of red gates randomly located to create random blocking. You CAN and you WILL slide them to allow you to move through the puzzle. But you can only slide them one step to the left or one step to the right. and sometimes you cannot slide because you are stuck. So you will go back. Say what?? what kind of puzzle is this? You will move forward AND backward, up AND down the board. Since you have 4 slides - it gives you 16 different setting for a starting setting/position (if you remember your theory of probability class). We tried one and two so far. It was NOT EASY - but it is the fun of challenge and uniqueness that keeps you excited.I have a 5.5 yr old who loves puzzle - your typical paper puzzles, large floor jigsaw puzzles, picture puzzles, etc.He took it as soon as I took it out of the box, expecting simple plastic puzzle. HE figured out before I did how to move on it. He started to shift the red gates right away. I told him "you can't do that , that's like cheating". Only then I sat down and tried to play it myself. And I got stuck. And ONLY THEN I read the instructions and found that shifting the gates is the critical part of the game. Leave it to a 5.5 yr old to have a better instinct. He loved it from the first try and wanted to try few settings. He agreed that it is not the easy puzzle, but he agreed that it was a great puzzle because of that. Since we both find it equally challenging - it helps him keep motivation to keep trying to solve it. Get it for your kid - but be prepared to want to play it. And if you have that smarty-pant uncle in the family - let him try to solve the first (easiest one)!

This is kind of fun and interesting how they get so many different mazes. I thought it would be great for long car rides but my kids 12,11,8 got bored with it quickly. I think it might have been too hard for them. Instead of it just being a new maze from start to finish, you have to slide the pieces to create the paths. I think it was just too many choices and too complicated for them so they gave up.

I ordered this as a last minute Xmas gift. When I received it, I took it out of the package & was quite disappointed, it seemed far too difficult for my children to use, let alone have an interest in. & I was also surprised to see that it wasn't electronic. BUT I decided to give it as a gift to my 5 year old, maze-loving son.When he opened the package he was elated! Both he & his 8 year old sister absolutely love it. They take it everywhere; it is perfect for in the car or in restaurants for easy, mind-building entertainment. My original concern about it not being easy for little kids to use, is totally gone. & my kids don't care that it isn't electronic, they don't even notice.It has 4 sliders that control the little 'gates' on the maze. When the sliders are switched, it totally changes the maze. The patterns are printed on the back to follow. The simplest maze is fairly easy but the tougher ones are quite difficult for an adult. You use the included 'pen' to follow the indented maze to the end.It is a simple, amazingly designed item that I would recommend to anyone!

Got this for my son who loves mazes. 2 issues with it. First off, once you figure out how to solve level one, that solution is the end part of multiple other levels. The same goes for other challenges. They end up just being pieces of levels you already figured out. I should have figured this would be the case, as there are so few movable parts available the configurations would have to have duplicate parts. My second has little to do with the quality of this product, but my son who loves mazes and has never cheated on them before keeps cheating on this one. He has made himself a rule that the red walls can be jumped over! So for us the fact that the movable walls are a different color caused my son to come up with a new rule for them and kind of ruined the challenge for him. Hopefully he will be willing to give up that rule sometime soon as I did buy this as a car ride toy for him to keep him entertained for our frequent rather long car rides.Quality of the toy is very good though. All one piece with the instructions engraved into the back and the pen is on a string. Small and easy to fit in my shoulder bag and has held up very well. Fun for the whole family and for visitors, so I'm sure I've gotten my 10 bucks worth out of it.

Worst product for the money, bought for use with my patience as a cognitive development tool, the concept sounded good a moveable maze with 16 patterns of use, where the product goes wrong is that though there are 16 patterns, you have to change the pattern as you go to get to the finish, which would be easier if the product were made better, the toggles on the key are flat to the product surface of the product and almost impossible to slide left or right to change the maze, I normally don’t bother to write reviews but this product was so poorly constructed with such a convoluted concept, don’t waste your money

Les encanta y los tiene entretenidos

No viene instrucciones en español y me parece muy aburrido el juego comparado con otros de esta marca

Good puzzle for kids and adults

superb product

Muy entretenido. Lo compré para mi hijo pero terminé adueñándome de él. Gran opción de diversión fuera de línea.