ThinkFun Gordian s Knot | 
| Brand: Think Fun
List Price: $9.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1276
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 8 - 99 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.5 x 3.5
MPN: 6820
Model: 6820
UPC: 019275068202
EAN: 0019275068202
ASIN: B000EGI4OO
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Six colorful interlocking puzzle pieces | | • | Forty-page step-by-step solution book | | • | Easy-to-follow reassembly instructions | | • | Teaches deductive reasoning and problem-solving | | • | For ages 8 years and above |
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Product Description
An ancient mystery is reinvented for mind-bending, modern-day fun. Gordian's Knot Brainteaser Challenge from ThinkFun is based on the Gordian knot tied by Midas. The Great Oracles proclaimed that the person who solved the puzzle would rule the world. This colorful knot features six interlocking pieces, but it takes a whopping 69 different moves to take the knot apart. By sliding the six pieces past each other, the Gordian's Knot will come apart. Some pieces will easily move throughout the process, but beware -- that doesn't mean you made the right move. Game comes with a 40-page, step-by-step solution book in case you get stumped, and helps you put the knot back together once the puzzle is solved. For one player.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 An amazingly hard puzzle October 17, 2006
Edward T. Pegg Jr. (Champaign, IL USA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
With many puzzles, a few moves will completely take the puzzle apart. They don't allow much playing around. A successful disassembly may mean that the puzzle is undisplayable and put away, sometimes forever.
Gordian's Knot requires lots of moves to take apart -- over 60 -- more than any simple 6-piece puzzle. Thus, it can be fiddled with and set down again in a perfectly presentable state. Taking a puzzle apart is generally more fun than putting one together. Myself, I have thousands of puzzles, but this is the one that I've played with the most, due to the fact that I don't have to do any clean up when I set the puzzle down again.
Not a Gordian Knot February 27, 2007
George Bell (Boulder, CO USA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This should be listed as "Gordian's Knot" not "Gordian Knot"! Actually I don't think this puzzle looks much like a knot anyway. However the good folks at ThinkFun wisely renamed it because "Extreme Torture" probably wouldn't sell well.
Extreme torture is more like what you will experience, however. This puzzle is diabolically difficult and you can almost feel the computer program that designed the beast lurking inside the plastic, scheming to cut off every easy and quick solution. The solution booklet is great, although you may be tempted to reach for it too quickly. If you mess with the puzzle for too long you can be in trouble, because the solution booklet only helps if you are near the starting position!
The solution booklet quips: "no trick moves or rotating of pieces is required to solve the puzzle!". What this leaves out is that a solution can be found more quickly if you rotate pieces. The computer program did not consider such moves so this is one way to outwit the designer. Beware, however, you may get your puzzle into such a snarl in this way you can never get it apart or back together!
 not my kind of puzzle December 27, 2006
SSL (Brooklyn, NY United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I own many manipulable logic puzzles, including this one. There is one sequence of (69) moves to take it apart, and the exact opposite sequence of steps to put it back together. You can fiddle, fiddle, fiddle and end up going in circles. Nothing about the puzzle seemed to give any clue to what you should do next. The solution manual simply lists the 69 steps to follow to take it apart (flip it over, do it in reverse to put back together). Compare that to something like the Rubik's cube. ITS manual _explains_ how to solve it. There's no "do this, this and that and then you'll be done," as with this puzzle.
Put simply, I grew bored with the Gordian Knot pretty quickly. For something more interesting, trying Magnif's Brain Puzzler or Think Fun's Spin Out. Even though there's pretty much one way to do those too, there's logic behind it, that can be figured out; not random moves that have to be guessed.
Is definately a mind teaser January 10, 2007
Ida I. Padro
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
There is no way anyone can figure this out. Maybe a little too complicated. Great for someone who thinks they can figure anything out.
KNOT too easy! February 20, 2007
Bingo (Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this as a gift for a puzzle lover and then couldn't resist getting one for myself. It is frustrating fun at the highest level. A challenge you will not be able to put down. I even had trouble taking it apart and putting it back together without the written directions. I have yet to do it on my own even after doing it with instructions once. The written history of the Gordian Knot and directions are done in a concise, interesting, and understandable accompanying book. It is hours of fun and challenging for all levels. If you like Rubik's cube and chess, you will love this as you definitely have to plot your moves ahead to be sure you are going in the right direction.
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