Price: $33.99 - $24.72
(as of Oct 29, 2024 17:36:06 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
Customers say
Customers find the tabletop game fun, thought-provoking, and engaging. They mention it’s interesting for both kids and adults, and it forces them to think out of the box. Some appreciate the difficulty level, build quality, and gift value. They also say it’s a good gift for any child 6+ and comes in a nice box. Customers are also happy with its functionality. However, some customers have mixed opinions on boredom and value for money.
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Jolene –
Easy to understand the goalâeven for a 5 year old
This is a great toy for kids.We placed the first piece and the last piece and dropped the marble on a test run. She could see where it started and where she wanted it to end up. Then she chose pieces to make the marble travel to the last piece. Good for developing engineering strategies.
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.
DLC –
This game is addictive and well worth the cost
Kids, adults, everyone. The gradual skill increase is well designed. This is a great game to take along with kids on a vacation.
Andrew Griggs –
Challenging and Fun Puzzle Game!
The ThinkFun Gravity Maze is a great brain game that combines fun and learning. My kids (and even the adults) really enjoy the challenge of figuring out how to get the marble through the maze. The game starts off easy but quickly gets more challenging, which keeps everyone engaged. Itâs a fantastic way to encourage problem-solving and spatial thinking.The pieces are sturdy and well-made, though I wish there were a few more levels or challenges included. Overall, itâs a fun and educational toy that provides hours of entertainment. A great choice for kids 8 and up!
Karen –
Awesome game for all ages.
This is a great game for all ages or to play alone. I also think it would be excellent for those looking to just exercise their cognitive skills.
Davis –
perfect gift for brilliant minds
I was looking for a gift for an 8 year old kid that has a bright mind and he like to be challenged. I like how this game is never the same and challenge the player to find solutions with the different pieces of the maze. in some difficult mazes the kid need to think out of the box. The pieces are made of good quality plastic, same for the cards. it can be addictive! 🙂
Amazon Customer –
What a fun game!
This game kept my daughter busy for quite some time. I love how this game makes her think, but is also fun!! Highly recommend.
Rodney Morrow –
Gravity Maze
It’s ok.. needs to come with more pieces. Not enough pieces to make this really interesting.