Geometric Puzzles Advanced Design

By TOI
Price $49.99
Age 5+

This wonderfully versatile geometric puzzle set provides 170 distinct challenges that sharpen youngsters' numeric knowledge, logical thinking, spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills while having the added benefit of being enormously fun. The experience is made all the more enjoyable by the fact that the playing board sits at a comfortable angle into slots in the box bottom, with 8 compartments immediately in front holding the set's 115 magnetic wooden puzzle pieces organized by shape and color. At the outset of each challenge, kids are encouraged to write the number of each type of piece that will be needed in solving it, illustrations of which appear on the board (which doubles as a dry-erase board, marker included) for precisely that purpose. This productively systematic approach is further enhanced by the 170 challenges in the set's puzzle cards and beautifully illustrated challenge book having been numbered and ordered according to 4 progressive levels ranging from easy to complex.