Playkidz Brainymaze Challanger, 3D Maze Game with Over 200 Obstacles, Great Puzzle to Test Stabilizing Skills.

My kids love these kind of mazes, but this one just misses the mark all over the place. The plastic that surrounds the maze is more like a really thin face shield mask. With the plastic being so thin, the marble gets stuck in places between the maze and thin plastic all the time.

Order this item as birthday gift for grandson. He loves it. Spends hours when it’s a rainy day in the camper playing with it. He likes the challenge of the different games. He is 9 years old and definitely age appropriate for him. Would recommend this for any child who likes to play challenging games.

I buy this kind of toys for my son with Autism. He is very good at it and he loves them. It provides nonverbal brain exercises and occupational therapy at the same time.

6 and 4 year old both love this. Keeps them busy in the car too!

My kids can sit hours doing this. They absolutely love it. Ages 11,12 and 14

This is a fun but very lightweight toy. I've seen much more expensive versions on the shelf and owned one from a company I cannot now remember. In this case, you get what you pay for and there are some quality control issues that come with the reduced price. The weight of the toy and especially the ball inside make the puzzle harder to complete because the ball doesn' thave the weight to stay on the track even with careful movement. Because the ball falls easily, interest by my ten year old niece was not maintained for very long. The ball also becomes easily stuck in a couple particular places (see picture), and stuck in such a way that isn't easy to shake it loose. In the first five minutes of playing with this, the ball got stuck twice.The adults in my family played with it more than the kids. The directions (not that you really need them because it's pretty self explanatory) are lacking. The path is numbered, but I think this is more for the "oooh" and "ahh" impact of "wowzers look how many 'obstacles' you have to overcome" (even when those obstacles are a straight road. The numbering is a little difficult to read, especially for certain color pathways.The multiple entrance points is a nice addition compared to some of the other similar products I have used. This allows you to start later on the path if you fall off, but some of you may find that as cheating!

It seems simple. Send a ball through a maze. Didn't we do this with wood in the 1970's? But no, this isn't that kind of maze. For one thing the ball doesn't come out. It is encased in plexiglass. Sound like a good idea? Wait until you hear the noise it makes! Every time you screw up, it falls into the plexiglass and whirls around and around and around and makes an awful noise and you wait for it to stop so you can turn it over and try again, but as soon as you touch it, it starts whirling again! Or it falls in some random place where you can't see it. This can't be right. Start over. Whirl whirl whirl.It's a voyage of discovery. Rotating carefully, you eventually discover, there is only one place in the sphere that catches the ball and drops it into the ABC hole. So that is your starting place. Aim that part downward to stop the whirling. Dang that's a loud noise! Whirl whirl whirl.Okay, now we are on the way. Now this thing is going to be fun, right? We are on either the A path, the B path, or the C path. How do we get out? Very carefully tilt the sphere and roll down the slope until you get to a... dead end? Now what? Oh! You have to rotate so the wall becomes the floor. Okay, I see it, no prob... Woops! There's a guard rail on only one side of the path now. Whirl whirl whirl.Starting over with the ABC holes, with focused concentration, I managed to go up a path, mind the guard rail, up a couple more paths, and I got to...the ABC holes!You don't have to get lost in this maze. There are tiny numbers and arrows on the path. But they are not easy to see from the vantage point you are looking at. It's your choice if you want to follow the numbers or learn the path without clues.This game is very fun. It's sturdy and child-proof. It's a real time killer. The more it punishes you with whirls the more you determined you are to beat it. The designer is some kind of diabolical genius. Recommended for people needing distraction in these trying times.

From us parents to my ten-year-old to our preschooler, everyone is in love with this thing! I thought it would have novel appeal and then get stashed away, but it gets played with every day. It's super fun but far from easy... but it gets easier every time you try it. Only my older son has made it from beginning to end without falling.I was surprised how relaxing it is! It's a very zen activity... unless of course, you get frustrated and feel like tossing it!A couple things that could be improved... one of the holes in ours isn't cut perfectly, so we have to carefully tap it to get the ball out. Also, I wish the plastic was a little thicker... it can bend or get dented easily. But it's a super awesome, addicting toy that I will for sure be gifting to other families in the future.