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Shape up strategic thinking skills with TetraTrax. Players slip their puzzle tiles down the rails into the clear tower, and score one point for every opposing tile their puzzle tile touches. Watch out, though -- you'll lose a point if you leave open spaces in the puzzle. The tension builds as the height of the puzzle grows. Includes game tower with built-in score keeper, 24 game tiles in two colors and guide.
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Great game, hard to store
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I really like the concept, applying the standard Tetris gameplay to a no-battery game. The mechanics are modified a bit: players take turns on the same playfield, and individual pieces can only be rotated 180 degrees or flipped. But these changes make the game work better, not worse.
Basically, two players take turns dropping pieces in until they have no more pieces to play. Scoring is according to how many pieces a newly added piece touches of the same color. Leaving a gap under the new pieces costs a point. (Possible house rules addition: subtract points for left-over pieces at the end).
It's a simple game with somewhat complex strategies; a classic winning combination. It doesn't have the depth of something like Reversi/Othello, or especially the real classics like chess or go. But it's a step or two above tic-tac-toe. :)
My only complaint is that the game doesn't pack up very well. Once the red frame has been assembled, it doesn't come back apart and so won't go back into the box it came in. And there's no built-in storage for the pieces except in the playfield itself. You're pretty much stuck sitting it on a shelf somewhere (some sort of underhanded marketing strategy? :) ), because if you lay it in a drawer, the pieces can all slide out of the playfield (and of course it can be a bit of a puzzle just getting all the pieces to fit perfectly into the playfield).
Fortunately, I have a shelf where it can go. And it's a fun game. Older players might wind up tying a lot, but my five-year-old and I are enjoying it.
Rating: 
(3
out of 5) @ 2008-07-17
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My son is thrilled
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My 9 year old son is very happy with this product, which calls for logical thinking. The number score counters are hard to push along, but otherwise it's very good quality.
Rating: 
(5
out of 5) @ 2007-12-25
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