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The Perplexus is a 3-D labyrinth game enclosed in a transparent plastic sphere. By twisting and turning the sphere 360 degrees players attempt to maneuver a small, steel ball through an intricate maze composed of narrow plastic tracks.

There are obstacles of varying difficulty that must be navigated across in order to get the steel ball to the end (position 100). The experience offers hours of entertainment and fun as you work out the tricks that are needed to get between some of the more complicated positions.

Unlike traditional flat-surface mazes that are composed of one path, Perplexus houses various exhilarating tracks with 100 barriers and provides a three dimensional experience unlike any puzzle you have ever tried.

Players select which track they would like to attempt, and then must work with gravity and carefully shift, flip, and twist the sphere to guide the marble. Players can race each other or the clock. On top of being entertaining, Perplexus is also an educational toy, and assists in childrens development.

The Perplexus is a great toy for children to exercise their motor and dexterity skills, as well as improve their hand-eye coordination. Its small size makes it easily portable and also no batteries are required. Although the puzzle does have a minimum recommended age of six years old - we also guarantee that adults will love the puzzle and spend ages trying to discover the secret to getting from position 1 to position 100.


Perplexus vs. the World Cup

Posted on | July 29, 2010 | No Comments

Not everyone loves football, and at the moment, there seems to be no escaping it. It’s on television constantly, and in the rare moments that it’s not, we’re bombarded with reminders, in adverts, trailers and highlight snippets. But, if you’re more interested in settling down with your Perplexus and having a good old brain challenge, you’re not alone. This week, we bring you some of the reasons that our beloved brain trainer is better than watching the footie:
If you yell at your Perplexus, you look less silly (perhaps) than if you’re yelling at a bunch of guys who are thousands of miles away.
Perplexus doesn’t miss penalties, and then make you want to cry because your country will never win an international football tournament ever again (open for discussion).
Perplexus doesn’t make everyone completely anti-social/obsessed with one thing for weeks on end, even though it is quite addictive…
There is no agonising over the reasons that you didn’t get to the next level of Perplexus at the crucial moment, or wondering why a perfect chance just couldn’t have been grabbed. You can have a go again tomorrow.
If you have any other great reasons why you’re rather sit down and play with your Perplexus than watch England get as far as the quarter finals, then please do get in touch- we always love to hear from you!
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The Perplexus Receives rave reviews

Posted on | July 22, 2010 | No Comments

There’s nothing quite like hearing a product that you supply getting rave reviews on the web, particularly when said reviews are so complementary and state just how people have been converted into puzzle addicts. We read one such blog just the other day, and had to give our new chum ‘Red Dave’ a mention (hello to you Dave, if you’re reading this. Now you’re famous in the Perplexus world, hurrah!). In his lovely contribution to web content, Dave shares a number of things with us, including how his own lovely wife, previously apposed to puzzles and games such as this, now cannot get enough of it, and he’s even struggling to be allowed a go, even for a few precious minutes. Not only this, but he compares completing the puzzle to meditation or something equally relaxing and spiritually enhancing. We’d have to agree with you there, Dave, as any time we play on our Perplexus, we definitely feel more fulfilled. Reading on, it sounds like our Dave knows what he’s on about when it comes to puzzling things over, and, like any great critic, he doesn’t let anything slide that doesn’t quite work for him; if he had his way, the Perplexus would be made of wood, although this would be pretty tricky and make it much less durable. the biggest compliment of all, we feel, is that Dave said he thinks this product is the best design since the Rubik’s cube- now what more could we ask for?!
If you’d like to get your hands on one of our addictive balls of fun, then do get in touch and we’ll send one out to you right away. Or, if you’re a friend of Red Dave, maybe just let him know that we’d love to meet him one day, and he can pop into the office any time for tea and biscuits.
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Great Puzzles of our time, part 3

Posted on | July 15, 2010 | No Comments

In the last of our blog series in which we try and answer some of the greatest puzzlers in the history of the world (N.B. This might depend on your own interpretation of the above statement), we pose the most serious question we could think of. Don’t get us wrong, we think that other unanswered conundrums are also important and interesting, such as how to get really good at Perplexus, and getting to an expert of the highest level…but this time, we’re bringing the questions back home, into the kitchen and onto the stove.
We’ve all been there; you’re happily boiling an egg, letting it simmer away, looking forward to drowning your soldiers in the soft yolk. All of a sudden, you get the horrible feeling that the egg has been cooking for too long- lo and behold, you discover you’ve actually hard-boiled your tea. How is it possible to guess when your egg is ready? Our Jonny seems to believe he’s discovered the solution…
“Basically, I’ve developed a magical kind of sixth sense. If you want you egg done right, just call me up, and I’ll come round. Fees are negotiable”. Great, thanks Jonny. If you have any other, more practical egg-cooking solutions that you would like to share with us, or indeed would like to get your hands on a Perplexus, please do get in touch and one of our team will be on hand to help. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Great Puzzles of our time, part 2

Posted on | July 8, 2010 | No Comments

Following the success of last week’s puzzler blog, and the debates that ensued afterwards, we’re delighted to bring you another brain teaser/big question that will get the cogs of your mind turning, just like our beloved Perplexus. This instalment may be of greater interest than the last, particularly to those who concern themselves with confectionary items, and get quite upset when lines are discontinued. On this note, we ask you, beloved Perplexus blog reader, and anyone of influence at Cadbury’s, why is our favourite Time Out so difficult to find in shops these days? As far as we’re concerned, everything about this delicious treat is right: you can nibble the outside chocolate coating off, or even bite each end and suck your tea through it, leaving a delicious melty, gooey centre. And it’s perfect snack size, so practically guilt free.
We really cannot see an answer to this particular puzzle, and so we need your help. If you know any reason for this travesty (we do not feel that we are exaggerating on this particular occasion), please get in touch as soon as possible, and hopefully we can start finding some solutions to this disaster. Of course, if you’d just like to know about our products or our service, please do give us a call, and one of our friendly team will be on hand to help.
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Great Puzzles of our time, part 1

Posted on | July 1, 2010 | No Comments

Here at Perplexus we love keeping our brains in check, making sure we keep those thinking caps on whenever possible (apart from when we’re watching Glee), and challenging ourselves with new puzzles every day. Because of this, we’ve decided to start a new blog series, exploring extremely difficult puzzles, and trying to come up with some answers. This week we ask, ‘Why can’t England ever get past the semi-final?’. To begin answering such a challenging question, where else was there to start, but with our resident footie experts, Rob and Marlon:
“I think the answer is simple”, says Marlon. “The pressure gets to the team. Everyone has their hopes pinned on them for this time to be the time that everything turns out differently”.
“I think I agree”, says Rob, “although it’s also possible that by that time in the competition, Lampard and Rooney have both got enough yellow or red cards so that they’re out of play. Plus someone probably has a sore knee, or something”.
If you’d like to add your comments on this, or would like to try another puzzle (probably easier to solve) in the form of Perplexus, please do get in touch and one of our team will be on hand to help.
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Better car journeys with Perplexus

Posted on | June 24, 2010 | No Comments

It’s a scenario we all find ourselves in, sometimes it feels like too often, and it’s pretty much inescapable. You’re off to see the Grandparents/for a country walk/to Legoland for the day, and all that stands between your family and the prospect of a thrilling time is the dreaded car journey that you’ll have to endure to get there. Entertaining the kids, particularly if they’re of varying ages, is never easy. Putting music on can lead to disagreements, having silence means you’ll be able to hear the arguing. This summer, invest in a perplexus, and sit back and relish the sound of the children’s brains whirring and ticking away as they work together to puzzle through getting the ball into the centre of the sphere. It’s the perfect game: self-contained and wonderfully compact, with no fiddly bits to lose under the seats of the car.
So, if you’d like to find out how perplexus can make your long (or short) journeys fly by without a hitch, please do get in touch, and one of our friendly team will be on hand to answer any questions you may have. We cannot, however, help with the issue of stopping for bathroom breaks. That one’s up to you. Sorry about that.
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Perplexus makes intelligent children: part 2

Posted on | June 17, 2010 | No Comments

Being keen on helping children (and adults, we don’t want anyone to miss out on the fun) use their brains, even during play, and helping develop logic and improve hand-eye coordination, is what keeps us keen and passionate about perplexus. It’s why we sell it and believe in it, and, in particular, love thinking about really clever people throughout history, and thinking that we could be just like them- if we keep practicing with the perplexus. So, following last week’s blog all about Wolfgang Mozart, this instalment celebrates the super-skilled chess player, Paul Morphy.
Born in 1837, to wealthy parents in beautiful New Orleans, Morphy is considered one of the first great masters of this tricky tactical board game. According his uncle Earnest, no one in the family actually taught the young Paul to play; he instead picked up all his understanding of the game from watching others in competition. It seemed like a miracle when his talent was discovered, as no one was even aware of his observation. Morphy is now considered one of the greatest chess players of his era, and has been dubbed an “Unofficial world chess champion”.
If you’re keen on getting yourself and your family up with the super-thinkers of the past and present, simply give us a call or drop us an email, and we’ll be able to get one of our wonderful perplexus toys out to you.
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Perplexus makes intelligent children: part 1

Posted on | June 10, 2010 | No Comments

Throughout history, there have been exceptional children, those who have constantly exceeded expectations and broken various records in their specialist fields. As we all know, perplexus can train all the family’s brains, and get them well on the way to becoming geniuses themselves (N.B. This is not guaranteed), and so it seems only appropriate for us to take a look at a couple of these special youngsters in our very own blog series. This week, we bring you Wolfgang Mozart…
Born in 1756, to Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart, Wolfgang spent his childhood in Salzburg, Austria, with one sister, Anna Maria, the only sibling to survive past birth. His passion for music grew as he watched Anna Maria, four years Wolfgang’s senior, learn the keyboard with their father. She recounts that he stood, looking intently at the keys and music, and when he was asked to play any piece back to them, he did so with incredible accuracy and sensitivity. By the age of five, he was composing short pieces, for which his father acted as scribe, noting the music down on the stave.
So, if you’re keen on training your little darlings to think well and practice their logic, hand-eye coordination and team-work skills, invest in a perplexus puzzle, and we can (almost) guarantee that you’ll get their brains working in wondrous ways in no time at all.
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Perplexus word search

Posted on | June 3, 2010 | No Comments

We all love the perplexus, and the ways in which it helps our brains work that little bit harder/helps us to think that little bit more, even during recreation. In celebration of this, we’ve devised another great way to get those brain cells working- everybody’s favourite quick activity: the word search!
So sit back and get those though caps on. The words you’re looking for are:
Perplexus, puzzle, hand games, circular, colourful and brain. Good luck!

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If you have any more questions about our products or our service, please do get in touch and one of our team will be happy to answer any questions you may have. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Perplexus and ways to train your Brain

Posted on | May 27, 2010 | No Comments

Of course we’re all aware by now that Perplexus is a great way to get those brain cells fired up and ready for action, getting those thinking caps on and warmed up for the day ahead- all within a fun, interactive and educational hand-held device. As much as all this is true, we can never rely on just this marvellous game to train our brains into the super0powered thinking machines that they can be, thus we present to you, devoted reader, a few more ideas for getting you thinking and working the big squishy lump upstairs to its full capacity. We hope you enjoy…

Sudoko: Brilliant for numeracy and general logic skills. Even though it looks horrible/frightening/horrendously un-fun at first, we guarantee you’ll soon be addicted. If you’re not already.

Boppit: Another game that requires quick thinking and even quicker reflexes. Bop, twist, spin or pull the appropriate buttons within the time limit when the game instructs you to do so, and you’ll stay on top. Super for those who are extra competitive as well, what with the multiplayer options.

Scrabble: One of the most popular board games in the world, if you want some practice at spelling, or indeed making up silly words, this is the game for you.

If you have any questions about our products or service, please do get in touch and one of our team will be on hand to help.

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