I like the design of the game board with the removable sliding gate so you can either pick it up or slide it out. You pick up little tricks and hacks as you play each level. Hint: Most of these single-player logic games are that way. I fiddled around with it for a few minutes before deciding I needed to go back and work my way through the challenges from the beginning. Let me just say, super hard! Look at that! There are NO hints at all. Then I decided to skip ahead to see how difficult later challenges were. I tried a few more challenges in the early levels, where most of the tiles were already in place. Each pocket should end up with the number of marbles indicated on the challenge card.Īfter playing around with the pink and yellow tile for a few minutes and tracking the marbles mentally I think I know the correct placement. The idea is to figure out where the remaining two tiles go so that the marbles run down the channels to the pockets at the bottom. In the first challenge, two tile spaces are grayed out. To set up the game you slide the gate in, place the marbles in a row at the top, and then arrange the tiles according to the challenge card. Marble Circuit includes a game board with a removable “gate,” 8 steel marbles, 10 color-coded tiles, and 64 challenge cards. Let me walk you through the first challenge so you’ll see what I mean.

The puzzles are definitely more complex than some.

Marble Circuit is a single-player logic game for ages 8 and up. “The logic game of paths and possibilities.” Timberdoodle sent Marble Circuit to me in exchange for my review. The next installment on my Off-Screen Entertainment Gift Idea List this week is Marble Circuit.

Pocket marble runs