Product Description

Grades 2&up. There are only seven pieces in this puzzle, so it should be easy. Right? Guess again! Sixty puzzle cards show 60 three-dimensional structures for players to replicate using the seven pieces. Each of the pieces, based on three or four connected cubes, is unique. One is an L shape, another a T, and they get more complicated from there. If a player is stumped and can't figure out how to build the Long Wall, the Snake, or the Bad Dog, there are helpful clues on the back of the cards. Players also can use the pieces to invent their own structures. Originally known as the Soma Cube, Block by Block is an excellent way to develop and refine spatial perception skills. Includes drawstring bag for storage.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1733 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Think Fun
• Model: 5931
• Released on: 2008-03-02
• Dimensions: 1.75" h x 8.00" w x 5.25" l, 1.54 pounds

Features

• Sixty mind challenge cards with hints and solutions
• Five brick pieces
• Game-go storage bag
• Builds on player¿s architectural skills as they combine seven puzzle pieces to construct up to sixty 3D structures
• For ages 8 years and above

Editorial Review
There are only seven pieces in this puzzle, so it should be easy. Right? Guess again! Sixty puzzle cards show 60 three-dimensional structures for players to replicate using the seven pieces. Each of the pieces, based on three or four connected cubes, is unique. One is an L shape, another a T, and they get more complicated from there. If a player is stumped and can't figure out how to build the Long Wall, the Snake, or the Bad Dog, there are helpful clues on the back of the cards. Players also can use the pieces to invent their own structures. Originally known as the Soma Cube, Block by Block is an excellent way to develop and refine spatial perception skills. Includes drawstring bag for storage. --Wendy Slotboom

Amazon.com Teacher Review
If you love a challenge, this vexing puzzle is for you. Children and adults alike can hone their understanding of spatial and part-to-whole relationships with hands-on practice. You can work it two ways: either try the puzzle out on your own, or use the solution on the back of the provided card to build a design in a step-by-step fashion. Once you've got the hang of it, you may get addicted to putting the oddly shaped blocks together to make a structure. Don't pull your hair out in frustration; let the cards help you out! --Trilby Cohen has spent most of the past decade as a primary school teacher and reading specialist in north Seattle public schools.

From Parents' Choice®
This updated version of the classic Soma Cube (seven pieces that represent all possible arrangements of three or four cubes other than in straight lines) helps develop spatial thinking as solvers mentally move and rotate the pieces to form the solid figures on 60 puzzle cards. On the back of each card, one hint shows where three of the shapes go, while another locates the remaining four. Players can choose their own levels of challenge. (Ruth B. Roufberg, Parent's Choice®, 1997)

Customer Reviews

Wow this is hard!
For the ultimate challenge in spatial relations try out this game. It's like a three dimensional tangram and it is really tough. For a great time bring this to a party and work on the solutions as a group. Personally, I think 8 years old is probably a little young for this game. I'd suggest 12+ unless the children are teamed up with an adult.

I played this 30 years ago and loved it.
once you start on this you're hooked! my friends and I worked on those puzzles when we were out at sea and the images and feel of the cubes remains with me to this day.

3-D FUN!
At first my 7 year old had a bit of difficulty with the concept, but once she figured it out, she loves it! The idea is to use the cube combos that come in the package to make the designed printed on the cards that come with the set. It sounds easy, but it is rather challenging. It builds spatial perception and logical thinking in a game!