Quercetti Mini Digicolor by International Playthings

by International Playthings

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.7 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 ounces
• ASIN: B000K9TUZC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #477,759 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fun game, January 12, 2009

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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This game is great for the hand-eye coordination strengthening and predicting what will happen next. We love it!

5.0 out of 5 stars A binary teacher!, October 23, 2008

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Benjamin McGough (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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Fun is subjective. I'm a geek, and would put this toy at 5 stars for fun, but then, not everyone thinks that learning binary counting is as much fun as I do.

Bad points first. Sometimes the little balls get stuck and you have to kind of shake it to lose them up. This happens most when emptying the balls back into the main hopper. The bigger digicolor (see link below) one has a cover that obscures the valves/switches which adds another level of thinking as you flip switches and drop balls. You could make one for this out of paper or cardboard. Also the colors are not used to full effect in the mini - on the larger version each switch is associated with a color or brightness, and the balls fall into the appropriate slot depending on the swithces (ex: switches red, blue, white set to on sends a ball into the light purple slot).

There are 4 switches here that represent 4 bits (top switch controls whether or not balls can fall back out of the slots), which can, in turn, represent 16 values. The switches are labeled '0' and '1', and the slots into which the balls fall are numbered. Set 0000, and the ball goes into the first slot, set 1111 and it goes into the last slot. Super cool - binary counting.

Sadly, I think these have been discontinued.

Large one mentioned above is here: Digicolor