ThinkFun Gordians Knot
An ancient mystery is reinvented for mind-bending, modern-day fun. Gordian’s Knot Brainteaser Challenge from ThinkFun is based on the Gordian knot tied by Midas. The Great Oracles proclaimed that the person who solved the puzzle would rule the world. This colorful knot features six interlocking pieces, but it takes a whopping 69 different moves to take the knot apart. By sliding the six pieces past each other, the Gordian’s Knot will come apart. Some pieces will easily move throughout the process, but beware — that doesn’t mean you made the right move.
Game comes with a 40-page, step-by-step solution book in case you get stumped, and helps you put the knot back together once the puzzle is solved. For one player.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Pretty fun but not for tease and long
This toy is pretty fun to jiggle pieces around and put them apart then put them together once again. Although I did not find myself “teased” by this product, it was worth playing.
5 Stars What a challenge
Very nice puzzle… SO DIFFICULT!!!
I’m a Rubik fan, but this one has nothing to do. MUCH more difficult as it doesn’t seem to have any logic or pattern. If you are tired of “easy” ones, thi is the one to try. If you like being able to solve puzzles in a few hours, this is not your game.
5 Stars Great deal and takes forever to solve
It took me a couple of days of casual tinkering to get this thing apart. The booklet says that this design was generated by a computer program to be the most difficult possible 6-piece puzzle and I believe it.
It’s not overwhelming; there’s at most only a few different positions to move to at one time. The problem is keeping track of where you are and what positions you’ve already visited. You can’t just randomly twiddle pieces because with 60 moves you’ll never get even one piece out.
This was fun but somewhat frustrating. I did it without any help from the booklet and thought I had it mastered but then I tried beating it again and couldn’t easily get the first piece out. I haven’t touched it since. Once you defeat it it’s just tedious.
4 Stars toughie
One of the better puzzles I have worked. Put your thinking caps on for this one. I can see that it would be excellent for developing spatial reasoning skills. Probably not for the very young
5 Stars great for road trips!
This was a lot of fun to work out. The instructions book is a little annoying because the pages get stuck in the spiral until it is well worn!
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