IQ XOXO, Puzzle Game with 120 Challenges, 6+ Years

I love these puzzles when I have a few minutes to kill and frequently give them out as gifts to my various nieces/nephews for birthdays and Christmas. All of these puzzles follow a similar line - all of the pieces must be fitted into a grid leaving no pieces without space and filling the grid completely. The puzzle comes with a small booklet suggesting various starting points which gradually increase in difficulty. The lower level puzzles are ideal for children and really encourage them to think harder. The more difficult puzzles can get even adults scratching their heads for a while. A really nice change from staring at a mobile phone!

A good gift for child or adult. Very addictive.

This was a present for my mother, we chose it because we have the game ourselves. We're big fans of these games, they're great for keeping your mind busy, for travelling and relaxing. The pieces are easy to pick up and place on the frame, which is good for young kids and elderly people.

An easy enough game to play, not so easy to complete. It's a bit like Tetris, fitting in all the shapes. There's a booklet of puzzles showing the placement of a first piece, difficulty from easy to hard (with solutions), so suitable for all ages. Nothing more frustrating than finding the last piece is not the correct shape!

This is a really nice little puzzle game, well suited for car journeys, etc. The compartment comes filled with Tetris-like pieces which you remove and then depending on what level of difficulty you want to attempt, you put some pieces back by following the guide. Then it's up to you to find out a way of putting the remaining pieces back so that the tray is completely filled. The guide contains 100 (I think) different combinations starting from very easy (it shows you the order in which to put most of the pieces back into the tray) and very hard (where it'll only show you where a single piece sits, and you then have to figure out how to put the remaining pieces back). The 'tray' and pieces are stamped with Xs and Os, so will only fit into the tray a particular way around...this is what makes it so tricky. Very frustrating (in a good way) to almost fill the tray with only a couple of pieces left, only to realise that you have to remove pretty much everything and start again in order to find a way for the final pieces to fit. Like all good puzzles, it's a fairly simply concept and easy to understand but very tricky to master. The easy levels are well suited for children (this was one of my 7yr old's Christmas gifts). The only grip I have with this is that the plastic is VERY noisy and due to the nature of the game (rearranging the pieces, taking them out and putting them back into the tray), you do end up making quite a bit of noise whilst playing. Apart from this, it's a really good puzzle.

We have 3 IQ Smart Games now. They are great to take out and about and they will not run out of batteries ;)

Bought this as had seen a different version of Smart game that kids were addicted to. This one is just as good. You can spend hours playing this - change from games on tablet! Highly recommend for 5-6 plus years.

Good size especially for travelling My 6 year old grandson loved, quietly sitting and working out the puzzles Great value would really recommend in fact have just bought a second one