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Review on 🧩 Explore Mind-Bending Challenges with Educational Insights Kanoodle Twisting Solitaire by Glenn Cho

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Interesting idea, could be better.

Similar to some smartphone apps, but can be used without electricity. They will give you 1 "big" game board/storage block that you need to fill up with unused pieces as instructed before playing to create a smaller board. It's annoying. You must also pack the pieces perfectly to close them. It would be a lot more fun to have different sized game boards and game pieces with some black "don't move" pieces to fill the pieces to set up in a drawstring bag. Just by using additional pieces you have to keep track of which ones you are not allowed to move. I would also much rather play cards to draw from than a little instruction booklet. It looks like these changes won't cost them much more since they won't be making the storage case anymore. You can also miss out on those that are too easy to be worth playing. He claims to have 101 riddles. This only applies if you want your 2 year old to play and the pieces are too small to be sure. In 12 2D puzzles and 6 pyramids, you installed all but one piece and then figured out how to use the last one. In 12 2D and 6 pyramids there are only two pieces left when you finish building. This continues with each level where 1 more piece is missing. You have to skip many useless puzzles to get to the slightly difficult ones. The game itself is interesting, especially the pyramids. I didn't see the pyramids on my phone either. This is a very small travel game that you are likely to lose bits of if you play along the way. This works when you want something small for the child to play by themselves during a prolonged power outage. We got it for the hurricane.

Pros
  • Hands-free
Cons
  • Very expensive