Uzzle 3.0 & Expansion Bundle - Includes New Level 5 Challenges - Fun for Family Game Nights - Skill Development & Gift Set – Bundle of Fun Board Games for Adults & Children - Ages 4+

Love this game! Perfect for groups. Fast to learn, and good for kids or adults.

How fun is this!! I LOVE it! Would definitely recommend it to others. Great game for the whole family, or friends! I bought both the original and the expanded versions.

Great family game!

The premise of the base game is simple: you have 2x1x1 blocks, each with 4 2-tile patterns (one on each 1x2 face). You draw a card with a 10-tile pattern, and pick one pattern from each of your blocks so you can assemble the same pattern as shown on the card. The cards each have a level (from 1 to 4); each time you play you're meant to pick a level and play with cards of that level.As a puzzle, this can be interesting. There are 5 symbols that can appear on each tile. Each of your five blocks has a "double" on one of its faces - each symbol being doubled on exactly one of the tiles. That leaves 15 total faces for the 10 possible non-double pairs of tiles, meaning 5 2-tile patterns appear uniquely on 1 block and the other 5 each appear on two of the blocks. Sometimes you can see that a particular part of the 10-tile pattern can only be made by placing a particular block a particular way, and work from there; other times you may have to figure out which of several options leaves you the correct tiles to complete the pattern.As a game, it's... ok. Basically you're racing to see who can match the pattern fastest. They draw out the instructions to indicate there are two variations, but basically that's just whether you're both racing to complete the same pattern, or whether each player draws their own pattern. I'm not sure about the long-term replay value. Certainly you can develop your knowledge of the game (i.e. becoming more familiar with which 2-tile patterns are duplicated, which unique patterns are eliminated by using which blocks, etc.); and there are enough different patterns that I think it's unlikely a player would reach a point of just having solutions memorized. But still, to me it just starts to feel repetitive after a few rounds. (Maybe that just mean it's the wrong game for me; not sure if others would feel the same way.)It's not unlikely to have one player who's simply better at doing this than the other(s). Luck of "the first thing I try happens to be correct" can get you a point here and there, but overall if one player is much better, the game can be frustrating for the other player(s). With the right players - e.g. where they're evenly matched, or they can work out a handicapping system (such as giving a higher-level card to the better player), or the poorer player is just laid back about it - it could be fun.There are single-player rules. (They say to time yourself solving level 4 cards; of course there's no reason you couldn't use lower-level cards if you prefer to.) There are enough blocks for up to 4 players to compete.To their credit, this game avoids the all-too-common trap of being strictly color-dependent. Each tile has a color AND a symbol, so most players should be able to see the necessary information.All the components fit neatly in the game box, but there isn't a particularly convenient way to keep the cards separated into decks for each of the four levels. The cards aren't particularly high quality, and in fact were already warped when I unpacked them.The expansion adds two new blocks (a 3x1x1 with four 3x1 patterns, which you kind of have to "build around"; and a 1x1x1 block which allows you to place any single symbol individually in the pattern), along with a set of "level 5" cards with larger patterns that require a complete set of 7 blocks (the 5 from the base set, plus the two described here).This adds a little variation to the game. I'm not sure it does much to add to my sense of the replay value, but if you really like the base game then you probably will enjoy the added twist of the expansion.The instructions also suggest you could use the additional blocks with the base game's cards (in which case any given solution will either use the original 5 blocks, or the expansion blocks plus 3 of the original blocks). The suggestion is that this might make those puzzles easier, but I think it's a mixed bag. Certainly it means there are more options for how to solve each card, but realistically if you try to use the expansion blocks with lower-level cars, you're going to start by seeing if you can find a place for one of the 1x3 patterns; if you can't (and if your opponent didn't bother trying), then you're at a serious disadvantage for that puzzle.

Fun for 3 generations playing this together!!

One of the funnest games I have played in a long time. Great for all age groups, easy to set up, and fast paced! It is a little pricey for what it is but we have already played so much that it was definitely worth it!

This game is fun. Up to four players or if you want, for more people, you could play in teams. Multiple ways to play the game. Just pick whatever method is the most fun for the age group you're playing with and you will all have a blast.

My 7 year old grandson loved this game!