An in house favorite, Pajaggle!
We like it so much we named it one of 2013 Games of the Year!
Pajaggle
Pah-jag-uhl
The game that thinks it is a puzzle!
Pajaggle
has 61 pieces that you place into their respective slots on the
Pajaggle board. That’s really it in a nutshell. But it’s deceptively
challenging. Many of the pieces look similar to each other, and the
variations between them can be very subtle. The spaces on the board for
the pieces to slot into are an exact fit. And I really mean ‘exact’. In
many cases, you’ll think you found the correct piece, but you didn’t.
It’s not unusual to try to stick a piece into a slot, figure out it’s
the wrong one, and then it gets stuck (or ‘Pajiggled’ in game lingo).
Thankfully, they provide a separate doohickey that serves to pop pieces
out of slots with little fuss (not surprisingly called a ‘Pajiggler’).
Here’s where they kick the complexity up another notch. Some of the pieces have slots within them for another piece to fit into. So some pieces just by themselves don’t actually fit into any slot on the board. They fit within another piece, which then fits into a particular space on the Pajaggle board. When I told my wife that as we were filling in the board together the first time, she said, “Oh, [expletive deleted]. Seriously?” We both laughed.
If you want to time yourself, Pajaggle comes with a digital timer. The first couple of times I solved the board, it took me forever. I was glad I didn’t time myself as I didn’t need that mark against me that day. But you know you’re going to use the timer eventually because you can’t resist, and it’s essential to the competitive, multiplayer games.
- See more at: http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/2011/11/18/review-of-pajaggle-a-puzzle-game-with-many-possibilities/#sthash.pzVD2jhf.dpuf
Here’s where they kick the complexity up another notch. Some of the pieces have slots within them for another piece to fit into. So some pieces just by themselves don’t actually fit into any slot on the board. They fit within another piece, which then fits into a particular space on the Pajaggle board. When I told my wife that as we were filling in the board together the first time, she said, “Oh, [expletive deleted]. Seriously?” We both laughed.
If you want to time yourself, Pajaggle comes with a digital timer. The first couple of times I solved the board, it took me forever. I was glad I didn’t time myself as I didn’t need that mark against me that day. But you know you’re going to use the timer eventually because you can’t resist, and it’s essential to the competitive, multiplayer games.
- See more at: http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/2011/11/18/review-of-pajaggle-a-puzzle-game-with-many-possibilities/#sthash.pzVD2jhf.dpuf
Pajaggle
has 61 pieces that you place into their respective slots on the
Pajaggle board. That’s really it in a nutshell. But it’s deceptively
challenging. Many of the pieces look similar to each other, and the
variations between them can be very subtle. The spaces on the board for
the pieces to slot into are an exact fit. And I really mean ‘exact’. In
many cases, you’ll think you found the correct piece, but you didn’t.
It’s not unusual to try to stick a piece into a slot, figure out it’s
the wrong one, and then it gets stuck (or ‘Pajiggled’ in game lingo).
Thankfully, they provide a separate doohickey that serves to pop pieces
out of slots with little fuss (not surprisingly called a ‘Pajiggler’).
Here’s where they kick the complexity up another notch. Some of the pieces have slots within them for another piece to fit into. So some pieces just by themselves don’t actually fit into any slot on the board. They fit within another piece, which then fits into a particular space on the Pajaggle board. When I told my wife that as we were filling in the board together the first time, she said, “Oh, [expletive deleted]. Seriously?” We both laughed.
If you want to time yourself, Pajaggle comes with a digital timer. The first couple of times I solved the board, it took me forever. I was glad I didn’t time myself as I didn’t need that mark against me that day. But you know you’re going to use the timer eventually because you can’t resist, and it’s essential to the competitive, multiplayer games.
- See more at: http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/2011/11/18/review-of-pajaggle-a-puzzle-game-with-many-possibilities/#sthash.pzVD2jhf.dpuf
Here’s where they kick the complexity up another notch. Some of the pieces have slots within them for another piece to fit into. So some pieces just by themselves don’t actually fit into any slot on the board. They fit within another piece, which then fits into a particular space on the Pajaggle board. When I told my wife that as we were filling in the board together the first time, she said, “Oh, [expletive deleted]. Seriously?” We both laughed.
If you want to time yourself, Pajaggle comes with a digital timer. The first couple of times I solved the board, it took me forever. I was glad I didn’t time myself as I didn’t need that mark against me that day. But you know you’re going to use the timer eventually because you can’t resist, and it’s essential to the competitive, multiplayer games.
- See more at: http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/2011/11/18/review-of-pajaggle-a-puzzle-game-with-many-possibilities/#sthash.pzVD2jhf.dpuf
In a nutshell, Pajaggle has 61 pieces that you fit into their homes on the Pajaggle board!
The game is deceptively more deceiving than that, I laugh when I say that because the plastic pieces can be so similar that it's hard to see the subtle changes from one piece to another. They all have a space on the board where they fit with extreme precision and some pieces even have a space in the center of them for another piece!
Each Pajaggle game comes with playing pieces, game board, Pajiggler, Pajaggle cards and a timer. The cards have different game variations on them or you can just try to beat your "time" record using the timer.
The other silly terms used in this game are:
Pajiggle: which is when you place a piece in a similar yet incorrect socket, then you would use the Pajiggler to remove it.
Doubler: A Pajaggle piece that fits into another Pajaggle insert ring socket.
Barrier: Circles on the Pajaggle board blocking play between adjacent pieces.
This is a game that both kids and grown ups alike seem to enjoy either playing independently or with the family as a team.
We think this is the perfect game for any child who enjoys puzzles, who has the attention span for puzzles, has good shape recognition, can spot the differences on like objects, and can complete puzzles with 50 or more pieces. This is a visual puzzle which can be completed in about 15 minutes or better . The possibilities of game variations are seemingly endless as you can invent your own variation based on the Pajaggle cards provided.
If
I could sum up in one sentence which kids I do think would respond well
to Pajaggle, it’d be this. If your child enjoys puzzles and has a good
attention span for them, has strong recognitions of shapes, can detect
subtle differences between similar objects, and can do puzzles of two or
three dozen pieces or more, then Pajaggle seems like an obvious choice
to me. - See more at:
http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/2011/11/18/review-of-pajaggle-a-puzzle-game-with-many-possibilities/#sthash.pzVD2jhf.dpuf
We were not given any toys or games to review.
We enjoy passing along our game experiences to you.
Pajaggle
has 61 pieces that you place into their respective slots on the
Pajaggle board. That’s really it in a nutshell. But it’s deceptively
challenging. Many of the pieces look similar to each other, and the
variations between them can be very subtle. The spaces on the board for
the pieces to slot into are an exact fit. And I really mean ‘exact’. In
many cases, you’ll think you found the correct piece, but you didn’t.
It’s not unusual to try to stick a piece into a slot, figure out it’s
the wrong one, and then it gets stuck (or ‘Pajiggled’ in game lingo).
Thankfully, they provide a separate doohickey that serves to pop pieces
out of slots with little fuss (not surprisingly called a ‘Pajiggler’).
Here’s where they kick the complexity up another notch. Some of the pieces have slots within them for another piece to fit into. So some pieces just by themselves don’t actually fit into any slot on the board. They fit within another piece, which then fits into a particular space on the Pajaggle board. When I told my wife that as we were filling in the board together the first time, she said, “Oh, [expletive deleted]. Seriously?” We both laughed.
If you want to time yourself, Pajaggle comes with a digital timer. The first couple of times I solved the board, it took me forever. I was glad I didn’t time myself as I didn’t need that mark against me that day. But you know you’re going to use the timer eventually because you can’t resist, and it’s essential to the competitive, multiplayer games.
- See more at: http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/2011/11/18/review-of-pajaggle-a-puzzle-game-with-many-possibilities/#sthash.pzVD2jhf.dpuf
Here’s where they kick the complexity up another notch. Some of the pieces have slots within them for another piece to fit into. So some pieces just by themselves don’t actually fit into any slot on the board. They fit within another piece, which then fits into a particular space on the Pajaggle board. When I told my wife that as we were filling in the board together the first time, she said, “Oh, [expletive deleted]. Seriously?” We both laughed.
If you want to time yourself, Pajaggle comes with a digital timer. The first couple of times I solved the board, it took me forever. I was glad I didn’t time myself as I didn’t need that mark against me that day. But you know you’re going to use the timer eventually because you can’t resist, and it’s essential to the competitive, multiplayer games.
- See more at: http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/2011/11/18/review-of-pajaggle-a-puzzle-game-with-many-possibilities/#sthash.pzVD2jhf.dpuf
Pajaggle
has 61 pieces that you place into their respective slots on the
Pajaggle board. That’s really it in a nutshell. But it’s deceptively
challenging. Many of the pieces look similar to each other, and the
variations between them can be very subtle. The spaces on the board for
the pieces to slot into are an exact fit. And I really mean ‘exact’. In
many cases, you’ll think you found the correct piece, but you didn’t.
It’s not unusual to try to stick a piece into a slot, figure out it’s
the wrong one, and then it gets stuck (or ‘Pajiggled’ in game lingo).
Thankfully, they provide a separate doohickey that serves to pop pieces
out of slots with little fuss (not surprisingly called a ‘Pajiggler’).
Here’s where they kick the complexity up another notch. Some of the pieces have slots within them for another piece to fit into. So some pieces just by themselves don’t actually fit into any slot on the board. They fit within another piece, which then fits into a particular space on the Pajaggle board. When I told my wife that as we were filling in the board together the first time, she said, “Oh, [expletive deleted]. Seriously?” We both laughed.
If you want to time yourself, Pajaggle comes with a digital timer. The first couple of times I solved the board, it took me forever. I was glad I didn’t time myself as I didn’t need that mark against me that day. But you know you’re going to use the timer eventually because you can’t resist, and it’s essential to the competitive, multiplayer games.
- See more at: http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/2011/11/18/review-of-pajaggle-a-puzzle-game-with-many-possibilities/#sthash.pzVD2jhf.dpuf
Here’s where they kick the complexity up another notch. Some of the pieces have slots within them for another piece to fit into. So some pieces just by themselves don’t actually fit into any slot on the board. They fit within another piece, which then fits into a particular space on the Pajaggle board. When I told my wife that as we were filling in the board together the first time, she said, “Oh, [expletive deleted]. Seriously?” We both laughed.
If you want to time yourself, Pajaggle comes with a digital timer. The first couple of times I solved the board, it took me forever. I was glad I didn’t time myself as I didn’t need that mark against me that day. But you know you’re going to use the timer eventually because you can’t resist, and it’s essential to the competitive, multiplayer games.
- See more at: http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/2011/11/18/review-of-pajaggle-a-puzzle-game-with-many-possibilities/#sthash.pzVD2jhf.dpuf
Pajaggle
has 61 pieces that you place into their respective slots on the
Pajaggle board. That’s really it in a nutshell. But it’s deceptively
challenging. Many of the pieces look similar to each other, and the
variations between them can be very subtle. The spaces on the board for
the pieces to slot into are an exact fit. And I really mean ‘exact’. In
many cases, you’ll think you found the correct piece, but you didn’t.
It’s not unusual to try to stick a piece into a slot, figure out it’s
the wrong one, and then it gets stuck (or ‘Pajiggled’ in game lingo).
Thankfully, they provide a separate doohickey that serves to pop pieces
out of slots with little fuss (not surprisingly called a ‘Pajiggler’).
Here’s where they kick the complexity up another notch. Some of the pieces have slots within them for another piece to fit into. So some pieces just by themselves don’t actually fit into any slot on the board. They fit within another piece, which then fits into a particular space on the Pajaggle board. When I told my wife that as we were filling in the board together the first time, she said, “Oh, [expletive deleted]. Seriously?” We both laughed.
If you want to time yourself, Pajaggle comes with a digital timer. The first couple of times I solved the board, it took me forever. I was glad I didn’t time myself as I didn’t need that mark against me that day. But you know you’re going to use the timer eventually because you can’t resist, and it’s essential to the competitive, multiplayer games.
- See more at: http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/2011/11/18/review-of-pajaggle-a-puzzle-game-with-many-possibilities/#sthash.pzVD2jhf.dpuf
Here’s where they kick the complexity up another notch. Some of the pieces have slots within them for another piece to fit into. So some pieces just by themselves don’t actually fit into any slot on the board. They fit within another piece, which then fits into a particular space on the Pajaggle board. When I told my wife that as we were filling in the board together the first time, she said, “Oh, [expletive deleted]. Seriously?” We both laughed.
If you want to time yourself, Pajaggle comes with a digital timer. The first couple of times I solved the board, it took me forever. I was glad I didn’t time myself as I didn’t need that mark against me that day. But you know you’re going to use the timer eventually because you can’t resist, and it’s essential to the competitive, multiplayer games.
- See more at: http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/2011/11/18/review-of-pajaggle-a-puzzle-game-with-many-possibilities/#sthash.pzVD2jhf.dpuf
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