Roger von Oech's Ball of Whacks: A Creativity Tool for Innovators

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Roger von Oech's Ball of Whacks: A Creativity Tool for Innovators

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

This is a ball shape with edges formed by 30 rhombi. A rhombus is a four-sided equilateral with two pairs of parallel sides.

This is really fun to fidget with. It just feels so cool and sturdy in your hands. It's great to see visitors fidgeting with them.

It's not the ball's fault, it's me, but putting on a stoic face is probably the hardest part. It's very soothing and challenging at the same time. The greatest value comes when you're thinking through a tricky problem alone.

Ball of whacks is a 96 page booklet. Always fun and engaging. Great quality, helpful booklet enclosed.

There isn't much to it, but it is unique and still gets played with 6+ months later. Now the rest of the kids want one too. Surprisingly to me they have a fun time with it. Every office needs one.

Cons

Not all sides of each piece are magnetic. Did not receive the ball of whacks. This one is a dud.

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Quality

Lastly regarding the book there is a big philosophical emphasis on applying the methodology of constructing structures with the... Read More

Its good quality and has a nice heavy feel to it

Not sure why this has an age for 14 and above my granddaughter is 10 and loved playing with it and working with the book that came with it

To start with the positive it is a pretty big toy by comparison to my beloved buckyballs its about the size of a baseball and t... Read More

Price

Ps the price is a bit high but the ball is made well and has a good weight to it

Not super thrilled about the price feels more like a 1015 item but still fun to have at your desk

Packaging/appearance

I keep this toy inside a pickle jar so children have to take it apart to take it out and they have to break it into at least 2 ... Read More

Competitiveness

We keep ours in ziplock baggie so the prices dont get lost

Overview

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great, old, cool and good.

Our AI detects a high amount of irrelevant reviews for this listing. A number of the reviews included in this product may belong to other variations, editions or versions that may not be representative of the current product being sold.

Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 8.

Previous analysis of this listing was an D grade.

Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved.

Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 38.0% of the reviews are reliable.

This product had a total of 556 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 1 2024.