Holiday 2010 Giveaway: Rubik's Slide Electronic Puzzle Game [CLOSED]

The Rubik’s Slide is a new game from the makers of the Rubik’s Cube. It combines the puzzle of a Rubik’s Cube into and electronic game. The object is to make the colored lights on the face of the electronic Rubik’s Cube match a specified set. You must twist, push, and pull the face of the game to move the lights, as seen in the video below.

I am a Rubik’s Cube-aholic, so I was thrilled to get to try this game. It is fun, entertaining, engaging, and hours of entertainment for anyone age five years through adult. Avery, my nine year old, has had a blast with this game too, almost as much fun as I’ve had. You can play this game in two modes, timed and free play. In timed mode, you try to solve as many puzzles as you can in an alloted time. In free play, you are free to play as many of the 10,000 possible puzzles as you like. You can also play as a one-player game or battle in a two or more player game. It is conveniently travel-sized, and made for tons of entertainment for Avery on a recent road trip of ours. It does require two “AA” batteries to operate, but those come installed.

The Rubik's Slide in action . . .

This would make an excellent Christmas gift for any puzzle-lover in your life and is a perfect size for a stocking stuffer. You can learn more about Rubik’s Slide and see videos on their website, www.rubiksslide.com . You can purchase Rubik’s Slide at most major retailers including Target, Toys R Us, Wal-Mart, JCPenney, Amazon.com, and more. It retails for approximately $17.99.

Thank you to Techno source for sending us a complimentary product sample to base this review upon and for providing a second product as our contest prize.

What you can win:
One lucky reader will receive a Rubik's Slide.

Limitations:

This giveaway is open to U.S. entries only. You do not need to be a blogger to enter, but you must have a valid email address and be age 18 years or older. If you enter anonymously and do not include a valid email address in your comment entries, I will not be able to notify you should you win this random drawing.

How to Gain Entries:

Leave a comment telling me who would receive the Rubik's Slide if you won this contest. You MUST do this to be eligible to win this contest.

Extra Entries:

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Random Drawing:

This contest will be closed on Monday, December 13th, 2010 at 11:59pm EST. A random number drawing will be held shortly after. The winner will be announced here and will be contact via email or through their blog. If the winner does not respond within 48 hours, a new number will be drawn.

Good luck in the drawing!

Review: "My Amusement Park" Leapster Game

My nearly 6 year old son has owned a Leapster 2 for a little over a year. Although he seemed to like it okay, I had never seen him play for a long period of time. I just thought that maybe he was not so interested in handheld games since he barely shows any interest in console gaming. Well, that is what I thought until now.

The new Scholastic Leapster game My Amusement Park has turned my son into a gamer. It seems to be a trend that my son will not spend time on a new game because he is intimidated by the unfamiliar, he does not like timed activities, and he just does not like to make mistakes. (I wonder where he gets that from.)

After I sat with my son and showed him how fun this new game was, he was more relaxed and has been playing it for an hour or two daily. I think what mainly attracts my son to this game is the ability to build his own amusement park. The concept is fairly simple. He earns virtual dollars by playing games, responding to alerts telling him something needs attention in his park, or by painting his attractions. Then he can in turn spend these dollars on building new attractions, which include food stands, game booths, and rides.

Although this game touches on spelling and mathematics, it mainly concentrates on fostering creativity, problem solving skills, memory skills, and deductive reasoning. There are also games and activities that teach your child food and recycling categories. Most of the activities allow your child to select a difficulty level of 1, 2, or 3. My son has a tendency to always choose level 1 even though the activities are not challenging at all for him. I need to give him a little nudge to test the waters of level 2.



While I was watching my son play this game last night, he said to me, "This game is a lot of fun, but I'm not learning anything." The fact was that he actually was learning and he didn't know it, which is perfectly fine. This game exercises my son's brain in an entertaining way just as crossword puzzles do for me.

Currently, the Leapster Learning Game: Scholastic My Amusement Park can be found on Leapfrog.com at a reduced price for the holidays. You should also be able to find this new game most places where Leapfrog products are sold.


Thank you to Leapfrog for providing a sample game for this review.