ThinkFun Izzi |  | Brand: Think Fun
Category: Toy
List Price: $9.99
Buy New: $3.75
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Seller: R. J. Seward
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 18,625
Age: 8 - 0 months
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 4.5 x 4.5 x 2.3
MPN: 5680
Model: 5680
UPC: 010111043469
EAN: 0010111043469
ASIN: B00004WJSX
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Endless solutions | | • | You must use all sixty-four tiles to build a square | | • | Sixty-four playing solutions | | • | Edges of each tile must match, black to black and white to white | | • | For ages 8 years and above |
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Product Description
Challenging and beautiful, IZZI is never the same puzzle twice and has almost a zillion solutions! Players try to match 64 black and white tiles to build a square.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent, portable puzzle August 15, 2007
Learning All The Time (USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This puzzle is fascinating to my kids. As you can see from the picture, each side of the black and white square can be all black, all white, or split black/white or white/black. The object is to match sides and create a square using all of the pieces.
Granted, we rarely build the entire puzzle using all the pieces - in fact, we've probably lost a handful. But the kids just build as far as they can, they like trying to match up sides, particularly when they must match up 2 or more sides. Sometimes they'll race each other, to see who is first to build a 5x5 puzzle, but usually this game is a cooperative effort to see how many pieces they can place.
I love this game because it can productively entertain the kids for 15-20 minutes, I enjoy helping them, and it's a great value b/c you can lose some pieces and still play it. Plus it is portable; we often keep it in our "wait bag".
Fun puzzle...makes you think September 7, 2009
Lover of Kids Books
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Izzi is a great puzzle that interests multiple ages. My 3- and 5-year olds enjoy trying to match up the pieces and just see how big they can build it. Adults are challenged to put the whole puzzle together. It's easy till you get close to the end, then fitting those last pieces in becomes a fun challenge.
My niece loved it! February 16, 2010
Joan Bindner (Mankato, MN United States)
I got this game for my 9 year old niece for Christmas. I had never heard of it before I bought it, but she was thrilled when she opened it because she has a friend who has it and has played it with her. My niece definitely enjoyed Izzi and was very happy to receive it.
Good puzzle for visual perception & patterns August 5, 2010
E. Schulz (NJ)
My kids aren't obsessed with this puzzle game (hence only 4 stars, lol), but it's a good way to occupy their minds for a spell, and helps my one child build her visual spatial skills, which is something we work on with her. Nice to have a "fun" thing to accomplish vision therapy goals! The kids often just make cool designs with the squares, which isn't really the goal of the game, but isn't a bad thing. :-)
The pieces are rather thin cardboard, so if it was a game they played a lot, I suspect durability might be an issue.
challenging puzzle January 15, 2007
M. Sequeira
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
I purcahsed this puzzle for use in my middle school classroom. The kids are struggling with it but are intrigues. This is not for the faint of heart. But does make them think.
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