Perplexus Q-Bot

By PlayMonster
Price $11.99
Age 8+

Playing this 3D maze game is like entering a miniature world in which gravity is your friend and enemy. You don't actually enter that world (a clear plastic cube that contains a robot-like configuration of paths and ramps) so much as peer in from the outside as you twist, turn and manipulate the cube in an effort to guide a small marble from a starting point through a series of challenges. Its highly absorbing fun, made all the more interesting and satisfying by the fact that not all paths are evident at first. It takes a keen eye and a clever mind to glean all the possibilities, but in the end exploration and ingenuity will win out. Given how hard it is to put down, Perplexus Q-Bot's portable 3.5-inch size is a major plus. Q-Bot is just one of a series of Perplexus brain teaser products available from PlayMonster.