Three spherical 3D ball maze puzzles
Check this assemblage of 3D puzzles. With all three puzzles the idea is to rotate the sphere such that gravity pulls the small enclosed ball through loops, tracks, corners, walls, and around the various pitfalls of the 3 dimension maze. They look pretty challenging/fun to me.
Perplexus Maze Game
Magicel Intenect Ball - 3D Maze Game
Superplexus 3D Game of Skill
Perplexus Maze Game
Magicel Intenect Ball - 3D Maze Game
Superplexus 3D Game of Skill
Labels: contraptions, mechancial toys, puzzles, rolling ball
posted by Dug North on 10/07/2009
4 Comments:
Thanks for this inspiring toy ! I did some additions concerning the inventor Michael McGinnis in my blog today http://kugelbahn.blog.de/
Greets Falk
Thanks Falk!
Best Wishes,
-Dug
The Superplexus is, indeed, a fascinating dexterity puzzle. I was lucky enough to get a bunch of them on clearance about 5 years ago.
Looking at these pictures, the other two look functionally identical to the Superplexus (and the wikipedia and related pages suggest they are the same, with the middle one maybe being the unlicensed knock-off).
Anyway, it's a lot of fun and fairly challenging, if you can track one down.
well the superplexus 3D was actually electronic and had a section you could lock the ball in while traveling. The Plexus is the same model it just is not electronic and it has the ball holder but no longer a lock for it.
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