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CREATIVE WHACK COMPANY
MSRP: $29.95
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Gender: Boys And Girls
Age: 12 and Up
Designed by Roger von Oech. as a companion product to the award-winning Ball of Whacks®, the innovative X-Ball presents a playful new way to stimulate creativity. It consists of 30 magnetic X-shaped pieces that click together to form a skeletal icosidodecahedron — Leonardo da Vinci's favorite shape. The uniquely angled geometry of the X-shaped pieces allows users to invent their own shapes and designs.
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X-Ball Examples
The X-Ball comes with an illustrated 96-page creativity guidebook that offers lots of ideas for other fun shapes and creative applications for the X-Ball. Bonus: X-Ball pieces can also be used with the Ball of Whacks pieces. For ages 8 and up. Available in RED.
MSRP: $35.00
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Gender: Boys And Girls
Age: 8 and Up
The Ball of Whacks is the perfect creativity tool for innovators, artists, engineers, writers, students, and you! It's a creative stimulant and a mental freshener!
The Ball of Whacks consists of 30 magnetic design blocks that can be rearranged into many, many shapes — including the beautiful 30-sided rhombic triacontahedron. More versatile than a puzzle and lots more fun than a brain teaser.
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MSRP: $35.00
I Want One
Gender: Boys And Girls
Age: 8 and Up
The Ball of Whacks comes with a 96-page illustrated creativity guidebook that provides you with tips, stories, exercises, and insights into the creative process.
Each individual piece of the Ball of Whacks is a "golden ratio" rhombic pyramid. Held in place by 180 rare earth magnets, these design blocks fit together to form a perfect 30-sided rhombic triacontahedron — geometry's most beautiful shape.
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