Perplexus is a captivating 3­D puzzle and logic game. The game requires twisting, turning, and tilting a plastic sphere to move a small steel ball through a numbered maze. This game, the Original maze, has 100 obstacles. Perplexus requires strong concentration and a variety of visual skills to be successful. The maze grows progressively harder as the numbers increase which provides a long-lasting challenge for a broad age range, but can also cause frustration for impatient students who are eager to finish. Perplexus is a novel toy and a good choice for students who are patient and enjoy a visual challenge.

• 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

• Anxiety
• Attention
• Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
• Spatial Perception
• Requires remembering and completing a sequence of visual steps
• Visual Discrimination
• Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
• Visual Motor Speed
• Requires challenging finger movements, motor precision or physical manipulation

Do you have what it takes to make it through a 3D maze of 100 challenging obstacles? Put your skills to the test with Perplexus Beast! Flip, twist and spin Perplexus Beast 360 degrees to navigate the ball along the numbered track. Maneuver tricky obstacles like the laughing man, tight rope and super spiral without falling off the track! If your ball falls, head back to the start and try again. It’s an intense, bendy challenge you won’t be able to put down! With multiple levels of difficulty to master, keep the ball rolling with Perplexus Rebel and Perplexus Epic (each sold separately). Level up and master the challenge of Perplexus Beast!