Price: $27.70
(as of Aug 11, 2024 07:45:26 UTC – Details)
ThinkFun’s Gravity Maze is an award-winning STEM toy that uniquely combines the excitement of a marble run game with the educational benefits of brain games. This high-quality toy is designed to develop critical thinking skills and tie into STEM subjects like science and engineering. It offers 60 challenges of increasing difficulty, making it a perfect gift for kids who love puzzles, smart games, and challenging activities. The game includes a clear instruction manual for immediate play and learning, ensuring your child can dive into the fun without delay. From beginner to expert, the multi-level challenges adapt to your child’s growing abilities, sharpening their mind and improving their logical reasoning, spatial reasoning, and planning skills. Perfect for children aged 8 and up, Gravity Maze is an ideal addition to any homeschool curriculum, providing a fun and engaging way to enhance learning. Experience the thrill of solving puzzles and watch as your child’s critical skills develop with each level they conquer.
AWARD-WINNING STEM TOY: ThinkFun’s Gravity Maze fosters spatial reasoning and planning skills through an exciting marble maze game – Winner of the Toy of the Year Award in the Specialty Category
ENHANCES CRITICAL SKILLS: This engineering and building toy not only provides hours of fun but also stealthily enhances critical skills – Great for developing logical reasoning, spatial reasoning, and planning skills
CHALLENGING AND ENGAGING: With 60 challenges from beginner to expert, Gravity Maze is a combination logic game, marble run, and STEM toy – Perfect for boys and girls aged 8 and up
HIGH QUALITY AND CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS: Comes with a high quality instruction manual for easy learning and immediate play – Clear and concise instructions ensure you can start playing and solving right away
MULTI-LEVEL CHALLENGES: Gravity Maze grows with your child, offering multi-level challenges that become increasingly difficult as you play through them – Ideal for homeschool curriculum
| Product Dimensions | 9.38 x 3 x 10.5 inches |
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| Item Weight | 1.1 pounds |
| ASIN | B00IUAAK2A |
| Item model number | 44001006 |
| Manufacturer recommended age | 8 – 15 years |
| Best Sellers Rank | #367 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games) #1 in Marble Runs |
| Customer Reviews |
4.6 out of 5 stars |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Release date | May 31, 2015 |
| Department | unisex-child |
| Manufacturer | ThinkFun |
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Customers say
Customers like the fun, quality and gift-giving aspects of the tabletop game. For example, they mention it’s entertaining, challenging and a great little game with different levels of play. Customers are also happy with the difficulty level, and educational value. That said, opinions are mixed on value, attention span and sturdiness.
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Seoung Kim –
Intuitive Intro to Fundamental Physics and Problem-Solving, Mediocre Build, Amazing Game!
Bought it for my 6-year old nephew, and he loved it!The game is set up so that my nephew could figure it out intuitively with minimal guidance.The game introduces children to fundamental concepts of physics and problem-solving mechanics in a very natural way. A ball rolling down the hill won’t suddenly drop down in a straight line or turn on its own, no matter how much you want it to.The game rules are simple. There is a starting point and an end goal that are placed in a fixed orientation on the grid and a list of which pieces can be used freely to reach that end point. There may be additional fixed pieces on the grid at start, depending on the level.I pointed out the dots that help indicate orientation of fixed starting pieces, which one was start piece, and which one was the end piece, and my nephew was off on his own in minutes. His experience with Lego model sets made the importance of orienting the starting pieces correctly easy to pick up.The game gradually introduces levels of complexity: longer paths, double-stacked pieces, free pieces that need to be laid horizontally, solutions requiring the ball to cross back through the same piece multiple times, etc., allowing the learning process to progress intuitively. My nephew needed some encouragement and guidance at some of these progression points, but again, the uptake once he figured it out was both natural and rewarding for him (and me). Conceptually the game is a blast, even for adults.Like others, I find it extremely regrettable that a game with such well thought out mechanics, has some pretty obvious build quality and design issues. The pieces just don’t snap satisfyingly into position, and an excited 6-year old might find himself getting a little frustrated when pieces fall out of place as he frantically rushes towards a solution. Additionally, the dots assisting with orientation are functionally sufficient, but could be more visible, and a side panel on the ramped cells labeled with an arrow indicating direction of the cell’s inner path might also decrease the frustration of setting up the board of glaringly bright fluorescent clear plastic pieces, freeing up more time to be spent on the satisfying effort of solving the puzzle. I wouldn’t mind paying another 5 to 7 dollars for a set with a more solid and polished feel.Still, the build is serviceable, and in the end, only a minor nuisance compared to the enjoyability of the puzzles themselves.
Angela –
Engage Your Brain
The ThinkFun Gravity Maze Marble Run is an award-winning brain game that combines logic, spatial reasoning, and planning skills, designed for boys and girls aged 8 and up. As a STEM toy, it not only entertains but also educates, challenging players to build functional mazes that guide marbles to their targets. This engaging puzzle game, recognized as a Toy of the Year Award winner, provides hours of fun while encouraging critical thinking and problem-solving skills in young minds.
Kuegler Family –
Great toy for kids who love puzzles + challenges
Our boys have loved building the typical marble mazes, so when they saw this, they were excited for the new challenge of it. They’ve loved playing with it, and I appreciate that the cards progress in difficulty so they were able to build up to the harder ones. All of the pieces fit well together, and I thought it was great quality for the price!
Hsu Family –
Fun game with a minor flaw
Great game but not without flaws. Tried playing this myself and really liked the concept. Thereâs something about a marble falling and following a path through a maze thatâs really fun. Think my daughter will enjoy this. However, the pieces donât always snap together or snap into place. What I mean is for some of the maze the answer is in such a way that itâs not possible to snap into place. This doesnât really impact the play all that much but it is a design flaw. So I am taking one star away because it doesnât do what itâs supposed to do all the time, which is snap into place. Sometimes it misleads me into thinking that I donât have the answer when in fact it is the answer. Aside from that, Iâd recommend this as a gift to any child.
AvidAn –
Great gift for kids
I played this with my 8 yr old nephew and loved the challenge. This is an entertaining game that forces kids to think out of the box. I have gifted this to many kids since then and I will highly recommend this if you are looking for something thatâs engaging as well as entertaining!
Rara3 –
Fun and educational
I bought this for my 6 year old. He spends alot of time figuring it out and gets excited everytime.
EH –
Kid loved it.
He plays with it every now and then stating he wouldn’t show me unless it worked lol. It comes with challenges and he immediately jumped to expert ones, dialed it back, then went back in. Works as intended so i’m happy about it.
Mandy –
This is hard
My kids tried to play this and it was just to hard so the have put it in the back of the closet. They are 11& 8