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Review on Road Trip Magnetic Tangram Puzzle Game For Kids And Adults - 2-Piece Set With 368 Patterns For STEM Learning And Brain Teasers, Includes Solutions - Jigsaw Shapes Dissection IQ Educational Toy by Bob Candfield

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Bad spiral binding makes them useless for travel.

These tangrams were pretty hard for my puzzle-loving five year old. The book does not stay flat and open, despite being spiral-bound-- the paper is the wrong size for the spiral binding to work properly. This might sound peevish, but it really defeats the purpose of buying a spiral bound book for travel. A little kid isn't going to be able to hold the book open while working on the tangram with the other hand, not on a plane or in a carseat.It would have been nice if they printed the answers to the tangram in color so a younger kid could make more sense of it. I would have been happy even if my son could have just copied the solved puzzles in the back of the book, but they were tiny pictures in black and white.The magnetic pieces themselves are GREAT. I appreciate that they gave two sets. One lost piece would render the whole set useless, so it was nice they gave a backup set.The puzzles are good too, just not little-kid friendly with the not laying flat and the answers not being in color.

Pros
  • Puzzles
Cons
  • The shapes may not be varied enough, leading to repetitive patterns and boredom