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Brainstring

Brainstring
Brain Child
Tillywig Award Winner 2010

Recent Toys USA
$16.99
7 & Up

Anyone who's ever spent time patiently unraveling a knotted ball of string will appreciate the challenge and brilliant design of this highly entertaining brainteaser. The clear, plastic sphere-like object has 12 elastic strings stretching across its interior, crossing paths with one another. The strings are colored (red, orange, purple, yellow - three of each) and have plastic nodes at either end holding them in place from the outside. The player manipulates the strings by moving the nodes along tracks, the object being to finish with a specified number of same-color nodes along each side, but with no entangled strings on the inside. Kids and adults alike thoroughly enjoyed Brainstring, which requires a keen mind and deep concentration. The process is so fun and absorbing that the desired outcome becomes almost secondary, although we give huge bragging rights to those who master Brainstring!