Juxtabo is an unusual and challenging visual strategy game played with two-sided, brightly-colored chips. Chips are randomly placed in a square grid. Each player starts with two pattern cards of three or four colored circles and seven chips in his hand. On your turn, you have one minute to place anywhere from two to seven chips to create the patterns on your cards. If you can create it you replace your card with another and keep going with the objective to collect as many cards as you can. The trick is that you are changing the board as you play, by matching a color on one of your chips to a color on the board making the color on the other side of the chip the new color. Scanning the board and finding the patterns is very challenging, as you must be able to mentally flip the orientation of the cards, plan multiple chips ahead to achieve some of your targets, and when you get more advanced, work to block your opponents from building their patterns. However, since there is no reading involved, younger children who are strong with spatial perception and abstract reasoning could compete effectively against adults. Overall, this attractive, well-made game will provide a great new challenge for those who enjoy visual strategy games.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Adults would enjoy playing with a child
• For electronic games, gives positive or encouraging feedback
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Does not require excessive set-up time after first time use
• Can be fun as a single player game
• Multi-player game which fosters collaboration or cooperation
• Well-made for the cost
• For electronic games, can play without sound
• For electronic games, allows user to save work
• For electronic games, voice/sounds are appealing and pronounces words properly
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Abstract Reasoning
• Turn or quiz abruptly ends when timer runs out
• Requires remembering and completing a sequence of visual steps
• Attention
• Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
• Fine Motor Skills
• Requires challenging finger movements, motor precision or physical manipulation
• Organization
• Requires remembering and completing a sequence of visual steps
• Processing Speed
• Requires scanning in multiple places for words, objects or numbers
• A player's success depends on speed
• Turn or quiz abruptly ends when timer runs out
• Spatial Perception
• Requires scanning in multiple places for words, objects or numbers
• Requires remembering and completing a sequence of visual steps
• Visual Discrimination
• Requires scanning in multiple places for words, objects or numbers
• Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
• Visual Memory
• Requires remembering and completing a sequence of visual steps
• Working Memory
• Requires scanning in multiple places for words, objects or numbers
• Turn or quiz abruptly ends when timer runs out
• Requires remembering and completing a sequence of visual steps

EXCITING PLAY MEETS A FEAST FOR THE EYES - the perfect description of Juxtabo. On a board made of colorful disks, players compete to replicate a secret pattern of colors using their stacks of two-colored Juxtabo pieces. A keen eye and a vivid mind will help you triumph in this exquisite game of visual perception. Juxtabo can also be played as a solitaire game. *This game is not suitable for the color blind.