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  • Boys and Girls Age 8 and Up
  • Playing your way through the challenges builds spatial reasoning and planning skills, and is partly an engineering and building toy
  • Gravity Maze is a combination logic game, marble run, and STEM toy that's one of the best gifts you can buy for boys and girls age 8 and up It contains 60 challenges from beginner to expert, a game grid, 9 towers, 1 target piece, and 3 marbles
  • Gravity Maze comes with 60 beginner to expert challenges that become increasingly difficult as you play through them
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Amazon has ThinkFun Gravity Maze Marble Run Brain Game & STEM Toy for $19.99. Shipping is free with Prime or on orders of $25+.

More Than Just A Marble Run: Dive into a maze game that challenges the mind and engages kids in STEM activities. Through 60 intriguing challenges, they'll strengthen logical reasoning and planning skills, all while enjoying the thrill of marble-based puzzles.

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Model: ThinkFun Gravity Maze Marble Run Brain Game and STEM Toy for Boys and Girls Age 8 and Up – Toy of the Year Award Winner

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    Product Name: ThinkFun Gravity Maze Marble Run Brain Game and STEM Toy for Boys and Girls Age 8 and Up: Toy of the Year Award Winner
    Manufacturer: ThinkFun
    Model Number: 44001006
    Product SKU: B00IUAAK2A
    ASIN: B00IUAAK2A
    Brand: Think Fun
    Item Dimensions LxWxH: 9.38 x 3 x 10.5 Inches
    Item Weight: 1.1 Pounds
    Item model number: 44001006
    Manufacturer: ThinkFun
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    I found this game to be wholly unsatisfying to play. The puzzle aspect is neat, but the payoff is lame because of how quickly the metal ball travels through the "solution." You drop it in the top and almost instantly it zooms to the bottom. I guess if you find knowing you did the solution satisfying enough, but I would have enjoyed the pieces being wider so the ball took longer to travel down. I ended up returning it.

    To each their own, though. Good reviews on Amazon and this is a good price.
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    That's not the right age for this toy. Level 2 problems start getting challenging even for 10-12 year olds. Putting the marble in is just a way to validate the solution, the actual game is building structures to solve the problems.
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    TalentedDesk7409
    09-08-2023 at 07:43 AM.
    09-08-2023 at 07:43 AM.
    Quote from TheFrequency :
    I found this game to be wholly unsatisfying to play. The puzzle aspect is neat, but the payoff is lame because of how quickly the metal ball travels through the "solution." You drop it in the top and almost instantly it zooms to the bottom. I guess if you find knowing you did the solution satisfying enough, but I would have enjoyed the pieces being wider so the ball took longer to travel down. I ended up returning it.

    To each their own, though. Good reviews on Amazon and this is a good price.

    The game has base and idea for a much more beautiful creative concept but they went cheap. I would not mind paying more if there were better and creative blocks that the ball spin a things and takes the ball through more interesting and longer paths
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    hcl777
    09-08-2023 at 04:01 PM.
    09-08-2023 at 04:01 PM.
    Quote from gatorgod :
    Most of the reviews here are talking about how quickly reaching the ball reaches the target. I think you missed the point. This game is more about the time your kid spent reaching the solution without looking at the back of the card, of course with your cues. I actually printed the front of the cards on a paper to keep the solution away for a bit so that kid developed a habit of not looking at the solution while arriving at the solution. That helps with developing problem solving skills. I got it for my 4 yo (mistake buy) and he eventually liked it after playing a few cards. He's now 6 and at the end of intermediate level. Good luck with the buy. It might become an interesting or boring one to your kid, and it also depends on how you present the game.
    I think the main problem is that the ThinkFun marketing team got a little greedy by adding "Marble Run" into its product listing name. As you say, it's really more of a puzzle game; think of it as a vertical version of their popular "Rush Hour" game, where you can "check" you answer by seeing if the marble makes it to the bottom.

    They probably would have been better off just leaving the "marble run" out of their product name and description; I'm guessing at least half the people buying it are expecting Rube Goldberg-like marble runs and being disappointed.
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    bdp8lax
    09-12-2023 at 11:19 AM.
    09-12-2023 at 11:19 AM.
    Quote from mike786 :
    I know I didn't list what we did. We did played the game multiple times. The marble building only took 20 minutes. This is not a deep learning toy...
    It sounds like you were using this as a make your own marble track which this isn't. Its to solve the puzzle cards that come with it.
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    karazi
    09-12-2023 at 02:09 PM.
    09-12-2023 at 02:09 PM.
    Quote from fawzi :
    i have this game and it is a great gift idea for all ages. it is not as straight forward. if you have kids who wont swallow the pieces, I highly recommend it

    By all ages how low would you go on that?
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    fawzi
    09-12-2023 at 08:10 PM.
    09-12-2023 at 08:10 PM.
    Quote from karazi :
    By all ages how low would you go on that?
    the age when they wont put toys in their mouth. so if they know how to play lego they will enjoy this a lot more. i do play it my self. i do highly recommend that you go in series with you play the cards since each one increases in difficulty.
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    BrokePanda
    09-13-2023 at 01:48 PM.
    09-13-2023 at 01:48 PM.
    Here's my take. I have a 8 and 10 year old and after 1 hr they lost interest. We end up using a lighter ball which would not fall as quickly
    As others have said the balls to the bottom within a second no matter how well you plan the cubes.

    I don't recommend this game. I suggest the wooden game with balls instead. That one as least is more strategic and takes 5 seconds for the ball to fall through.
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    2bargainhunterz
    09-13-2023 at 02:21 PM.
    09-13-2023 at 02:21 PM.
    My kids enjoyed this game and so do the kids in the 3rd & 4th grades at our school. Its a logic game, not a marble run. We have enjoyed many Think Fun games. - Traffic Jam, Dog/Cat crimes, Laser Maze.
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    djfeltl
    09-13-2023 at 02:52 PM.
    09-13-2023 at 02:52 PM.
    Quote from The1NamedMarc :
    This is a really fun game. It's worth $20 but no more because it's short. I wish they would've added expansion packs to this game for that reason.
    I bought is in 2017 from Amazon for $14.99. It was played with for about 10 minutes by my 6 and 8 year olds.
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    BirdWing
    09-14-2023 at 05:41 AM.
    09-14-2023 at 05:41 AM.
    Guessing most of the folks posting here don't get what this really is. I would not call it a marble run game, it is a logic puzzle. Yes, much of the blame for this may go to the marketing team.

    I have an older version that is labeled "Falling marble logic game" (nothing about a marble run on the box) ... which is exactly what it is. It is great for that person (child or adult) that enjoys doing logic puzzles and games. It is not for the person (child or adult) that likes to build marble runs.

    Purchased mine at a thrift store in brand new condition. Those of us in the house (and our visitors) that are analytical and logical thinkers really dig it. Others get frustrated too soon and are ready for something else after 10 minutes. But, that is the beauty of lower priced games. If we play it and enjoy it, great. If we play it and don't really like it, well, that's OK too. We weren't out too much money.

    Regarding the version I have, it is a solidly built product. It is not something that is going to break after a couple of uses.
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    LightningExec
    09-19-2023 at 07:42 AM.
    09-19-2023 at 07:42 AM.
    Quote from mike786 :
    DON'T BUY THIS...
    It's a dumb cheap toy. It will not make your kids smarter..

    I got this for my 4 and 6 year old years ago and it was only interesting for 2 hours. I donated to Goodwill after.

    You put the marble in and less than a second it's done. No matter how complicate you set it up, it will end in 1 second.

    Not sure why so many good reviews. That photo of a big kid playing this has to be on the short bus... Applause
    'make your kids smarter' tells us more about you than you realize, and no doubt your kids as well. It's very odd that an adult would make such a crass joke about other children, its very....1990s & you should be ashamed of acting like a child.

    Its sad that your kids will inherit your mainlandedness.
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    09-19-2023 at 09:44 AM.
    09-19-2023 at 09:44 AM.
    Quote from Lyzdog :
    'make your kids smarter' tells us more about you than you realize, and no doubt your kids as well. It's very odd that an adult would make such a crass joke about other children, its very....1990s & you should be ashamed of acting like a child.

    Its sad that your kids will inherit your mainlandedness.
    You are taking this wrong. I'm telling others to not buy it cuz it's not a fun learning toy.
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    OneSlickDeal
    09-21-2023 at 01:37 PM.
    09-21-2023 at 01:37 PM.
    LOL check out the guy who believes the whole "gravity" thing 👆🤣
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    Chinh_Pham
    09-22-2023 at 01:05 AM.
    09-22-2023 at 01:05 AM.
    In this game, can you still lose if you're the only one interested in playing?

    laugh out loudlaugh out loud
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    09-27-2023 at 07:56 PM.
    09-27-2023 at 07:56 PM.
    Quote from offers_1001 :
    That's not the right age for this toy. Level 2 problems start getting challenging even for 10-12 year olds. Putting the marble in is just a way to validate the solution, the actual game is building structures to solve the problems.

    My 4 year old got to level 55 on his own before it got too hard… depends on the kid.
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