A 3x3x3 cube consists of 27 single cubelets. Polycubes can be made of from 1 to 5 cubelets. This gives a huge number of ways for polycubes to be made into the full cube so the challenge to a player will never be exhausted. The highly condensed coding method in the 52 page code book is an effective presentation of the huge complexity. The game will develop three dimensional spatial skills useful for Analytical Geometry, Organic Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Architecture, Biology and so many other fields.
J**D
Great for the thinking person, miles beyond the 80s cube. Don't lose any parts.
Great puzzle.You will progress to the more difficult combos pretty quickly.The instructions are kind of vague or just beyond layman's terms. The combinations are progressively more difficult.After you complete a puzzle, break it down and try it again. It seems to me the second attempt takes longer.The corners will get slightly flared from dropping the pieces onto the floor as you work them but it's nothing that a soft emory board can't take care of. I also enlarged the color code on the box using a 3X5 card & used a silver magic marker to highlight the pieces in the box, don't worry, you won't see them once the puzzle is properly assembled.Good way to keep sharp.
J**L
Zobrist
Zobrist Cube Game Edition. The set was incomplete. Obvious an error from the Zobrist factory. Can that be cleard with Zobrist?
L**M
Beautifully made. A fun and challenging game. Instructions need to be clearer.
I bought this as a birthday present for my 16 year old son who is into Rubik's cubes. The pieces are beautifully made and comes in an attractive and sturdy presentation box. We had a lot of fun racing against my son to build cubes. There are hundreds of different challenges ranked by their difficulty level. However, it takes a while to find the correct pieces because the embossed letters on each piece are hard to read. Also, the instructions were a little basic and needed a little more explanation to make the game more user friendly. There should be a couple of introductory paragraphs to explain the concept of the game. Otherwise, it is confusing.Overall, a fun and challenging game that will keep us busy for a while.
A**F
Cool game!
Neat game! Saw it in the Discover Magazine ad and wanted to give it a try. You can tell it was designed by a programmer, because the instructions booklet is very plainly written. I bought this for game night with my kids and so far, they put me to shame! Something about the way that 3D games have shaped their brains has seemingly made them geniuses at solving this game. What takes me 15 minutes to solve, my 13 year old son can do in less than 5.The online description is very brief. I should mention that the box has a nice magnetic closure and the pieces are pretty high quality plastic. They sound and feel a lot denser than I'd imagined from the picture and fit very solidly together.
D**R
Way over my head
Was not what I expected and I thought it came with an instruction booklet to help me understand how to get started. I'm good with puzzles but this is nothing like I've ever had and the 52 page code book is for a Mensa genius.
E**L
Soma cube with variations
This is the old soma puzzle with lots of variations. What's new is this challenges you to solve constantly new puzzles at ever faster speeds. But that's not a great puzzle compared to some others. It's a bit of nuisance to pick the right pieces every time using the guide book. It's a bit expensive for all the more that it is. Puzzle pieces are well constructed.
W**N
A Great Spatial Relations Puzzle
This is an interesting and challenging followup to Rubik's Cubes. It's more free form and open ended. And it requires more dexterity because the pieces are not attached. It takes a while to get used to the paradigm, but if things start to seem too easy, just flip to the next page in the book. You will soon move from routine to difficult to extremely difficult.One complaint is that it is unnecessarily difficult to identify which piece has which letter. They should make the letters easier to locate and read. They could also make each shape a different color. Or both! I guess if you play enough you will become totally familiar with the pieces, but I find that it takes almost as long to select the pieces for the different problem sets as it does to solve the puzzles.
R**G
Inner packaging frail
I purchased three Zobrist cube sets, two of which I had intended to give as gifts. All three arrived with the same damage due, evidently due to handling during shipping. The damage was to the paper inside the boxes that holds the contents in place. The torn paper makes them appear cheap and certainly not a gift I would want to give to anyone. I would be embarrassed to give them.The outer box is nice. The pieces are shrink wrapped. The instructions are wanting. A geometry teacher could piece together how to play with this puzzle, but the average person would probably abandon any desire to read the instructions or decipher the pages and pages of cryptic configuration definitions.This game could be packaged more securely with better thought out instructions. It is not necessary to present so many hundreds of solutions/configurations, just a few for each level of difficulty would do.
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