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Everyone knows how to play the game mastermind. The Codemaker sets a four colour code and the Codebreaker has ten rows in which to crack it.

Age suitability: 8 years plus.

A super smooth and super fast cube with adjustable elasticity.

Age suitability: 8 years plus.

The world's best-selling toy.

Here are a few facts:

Originally advertised as having over 3 billion permutations, apparently there are actually over 43 quintillion, that's 43 followed by fifteen zeroes.

The centre squares on each side don't move and under the surface are joined together as one piece forming the skeleton of the cube about which all the other cubes rotate.

Google worked out that it should be possible to solve it in 20 moves.

Most people solve it layer by layer but it is actually better to solve a 2x2x2 block, enlarge it to a 2x2x3 block and then sort out the incorrect edges.

The world record solving time is 3.47 seconds.  A robot achieved it in 0.38 seconds. The world record using feet only is 15.56 seconds.  

I can't do it.

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Single person brain teaser game for children age 7 and upwards (and shop-keepers when it's quiet in the shop).

Comes on a board about 15cm across with a lid, so makes a great travel game.

SG452

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Single person brain teaser game for children age 7 and upwards (and shop-keepers when it's quiet in the shop).

Get the rabbits back safely to their burrows by jumping over the mushrooms and foxes.

Comes on a board about 15cm across with a lid, so makes a great travel game.

My favourite of all the excellent Smart Games.

SG421

Single person brain teaser game for children age 5 and upwards (and shop-keepers when it's quiet in the shop).

Three hungry worms want to share an apple.

Choose one of the sixty challenges.  Twist the apple board so it matches the one shown in the challenge and then work out where to position the three bendy worms.

 

 

 

SG445

Another of the Smart Games we keep on our shop counter.  This is really for children 3 to 6 year olds but it still makes many adults think.

There is a booklet with 48 challenges telling you where to place the pigs on the board.  In the first half, it is daytime and the wolf is not around, so you position the three houses on the board with the pigs outside the houses.  In the second half, the wolf appears, so you have to place the houses in such a way that the pigs are safely inside and the wolf outside.

The video explains it better:

SG023

Fiendish brain game with eight 'marbles' and their perspex cage.

Each marble has specific bumps and holes in its surface and the trick is to align these so that all eight marbles fit in the cage.  You need logic and lots of spatial insight.

Booklet of 80 challenges from relatively easy to totally impossible.

Compact size, about 6cm cubed.

Age suitability: 10+ years.

Single person brain teaser game for children age 7 and upwards (and shop-keepers when it's quiet in the shop).

Get the rabbits back safely to their burrows by jumping over the mushrooms and foxes.

Comes on a board about 15cm across with a lid, so makes a great travel game.

My favourite of all the excellent Smart Games.

SG421

Test your brainpower by manoeuvring the squirrels around the board so that they drop the nuts in the holes.

Single player brain teaser game for children aged 6 onwards.  There is a booklet with 60 different challenges.  The early ones are relatively straightforward but the harder ones will stretch many an adult.

To see more, please watch the video:

SG425

Single player brain game for children age 6 upwards with a booklet of 120 challenges that start easy and get harder and harder.