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Customer Review
- Reviewed in Canada on December 4, 2019There's two versions of this Perplexus Epic game being sold by 鶹, at two different prices. Its utterly confusing and they keep switching the images around from listing to listing. One is the blue/light grey version, and the other is purple and yellow. Both are the 'Epic' and have the exact same 125 puzzles though so at least there's that.
I'm guessing Spinmaster has brought out an updated version, but its unclear which is the 'new' one - reviews on what was the purple one the other day suggest its thinner plastic/cheaper construction so I'd guess that's the newer version (all the images have now swapped round on the 鶹 listings so who knows). I ordered one off the purple listing as it was cheaper, and still received a blue/light grey one. The one that was the blue/light grey more expensive one now has the purple one as its picture and vice-versa.
Mystifying stuff, and seems a bit of a lottery which one you will receive - also impossible to tell which reviews apply to which colour version - I'm now unsure if I got the one with thinner plastic which had the ball get stuck in places as some reviews suggested. :S
Anyway, we got this for our 8 year old son, he's played around with friends Perplexus puzzles from about the age of 6 so figured I'd get him his own. Aside from the confusion over which colour version you're going to get, this is a good game. Its kept him occupied for hours trying to solve the puzzles. So far with the blue/light grey one, we've not had the ball get stuck, and the plastic seems pretty robust.
The toy itself I'd happily recommend to other parents, its nice to see our son do something that improves his problem solving, patience and motor skills and doesn't involve his little brain being sucked out by Youtube ;)
If you're looking for a gift for a kid of probably 6-7+ then they'll love this and it'll keep them busy for hours - but it will depend on the kid a bit. Our youngest is 5 and has had a few goes with this that ended quickly with tears and frustration, whereas his older brother (8) loves it and will sit quietly for ages trying to solve it.
Highly recommended - but just be prepared to not necessarily get the colour version you were expecting!
