Roger von Oech's Ball of Whacks has been chosen as a winner in the 2008 Fat Brain Toy Awards which means that visitors to Fat Brain Toys have chosen it as the best-of-the-best in specialty toys, games, and gifts. Congratulations!
A creative tool for innovators like artists, engineers, writer, designers and you! Create inspiring shapes with the 30 magnetic Whack pieces. Working with your hands and eyes helps to stimulate brain activity. Keep it on your desk or favorite creative thinking place. Contains 180 rare earth magnets. A 96 page guidebook is included. The Ball of Whacks was created by dividing on of nature's most beautiful shapes--the thirty sided rhombic triacontahedron--into 30 pyramid pieces. The result is a fun set of magnetic building blocks with many uses. Be a designer and create new shapes. Use it in creative workshops to develop ideas. Use it as a meditation aid to free your mind from other concerns. Not suitable for children under 8 years of age. Warning: keep away from pacemakers.
Toy Value Index: 9.34
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Fat Brain Index: 8.62
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Posted 5 days ago by Linda Kuhns
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Setting: Home
An entire evening of fun for two very bright boys aged 7 and 9.
Ball of Whacks
Posted 5/30/2009 by Mark M Turnbull
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The Ball of Whacks is great and used by the whole family (it's our second) but mostly by a 17-year old girl who has turned it into an art form.
Product review of Roger von Oech's Ball of Whacks
Posted 4/28/2009
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Very neat. We bought it for our son's birthday and ended up playing with it. We will probably order another one for him. Neat design, neat concept. Only improvement would be stronger magnets or possibly a "rougher"/less slick plastic. Ball will often fly apart in many pieces when you try to remove pieces or pull/twist apart to build different designs. Would reccomend it as a gift.
fun stand-by
Posted 1/5/2009
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Setting: Home
The Ball of Whacks is fun and a bit addictive, and is very versatile in making shapes and patterns (if multi-colored). It's the kind of toy you leave by the couch for the compulsive fiddler. More for quiet kids or adults, as pieces could easily get dispersed.
Elkhorn, Nebraska USA 68022