Dice set - big 1.5" Diameter Review
These are solid wood. Popular with teachers for math games with dice, magicians for palm tricks, seniors with vision problems, and just for decoration too! Read more...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Dice set - big 1.5" Diameter
These are solid wood. Popular with teachers for math games with dice, magicians for palm tricks, seniors with vision problems, and just for decoration too! Read more...
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Pentominoes
Pentominoes Review
Each piece, called a pentominoe, represents one of only 12 ways in which 5 squares of equal size can be joined edge to edge. Confused? You haven't even tried it yet! Create 2D and 3D shapes using various combinations of the pieces. A booklet with 50 shapes is included. This baffling and beautiful wooden brainteaser puzzle measures 9 x 9 x 1 ¼. Read more...
Pentominoes Specifications
No doubt about it: Pentominoes is like a Mensa test from Hades. It's as if they took a typical I.Q. exam, ditched all the "Hat is to head as glove is to... " and scrambled word stuff, and left you with all the spatial shapes questions. The equipment is diabolically simple: 12 three-dimensional polygons fashioned out of heavy oak, which are stored in a felt-bottomed oak frame. The enclosed booklet challenges solvers to use these pieces--which resemble anything from a plus sign to the letter L--to replicate the 54 designs and patterns shown on its pages, things like a 3-D pyramid and a 2-D rectangle. The fiends at Square Root Games magnanimously provide five solutions to the 54 challenges; if you want the other 49, you have to send them . --Tony Mason
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