SmartGames Trucky 3 Wooden Skill-Building Puzzle Game Moving Trucks for Ages 3+

This is such a great simple toy. This year we set a rule with family no toy that uses batteries at first we thought it would be very difficult but with products like this we are very happy. Our daughters love playing this more than their hand held electronic devices. It is very durable and great as a traveling toy. We now bring this with us when we visit family. Highly recommend excellent purchase.

Our three year old loves these puzzles! They give her a good amount of challenge, but a challenge that she wants and needs! She really enjoys figuring out how to solve each one, and I tend to find her in the harder sections giving it her best try. This could make a great gift for any child!

This game is great for my 5 year old. It comes with exactly what you see, seven blocks and a guidebook that has 45 different pictures on it. You arrange the blocks so it matches the picture in the booklet. She got through the first dozen or so pretty quickly but then they got a little tougher and it took a bit more brainpower. This is a great little game with quality pieces and I am looking forward to buying other games from the Smart Games brand.

My 4 yr old sat with this toy for (literally) an hour at a time when he discovered this at a vacation home we were renting. He played with it every single day we were there. Very durable (the owner told me her children used this toy for years and then everyone who rented from them who had kids used this toy too!). We are buying this for the holidays so that we will have one at home now too!

The idea behind this toy is that there are a handful of pieces that can be constructed into different configurations that arent always obvious in the puzzle book provided. The children must try to replicate the designs based on what they know about how the pieces fit together. I admire the idea behind this, but my kids (5 and 2.5) are completely uninterested in it. They each opened the box once, and quickly became bored with its contents even after I showed them the puzzles and worked through the first one with them. I think this is because there are so few pieces (4 blocks and 3 towers), so there is little room for imaginative construction. It kind of feels like homework. There are other building toys that have pictures of a constructed building, or plane, or elephant or whatever that similarly encourages kids to use logic skills, although the ads for those other toys dont highlight that fact. Those other toys also allow more imaginative play. Some examples of those are Lego, Magnatiles, and Wedgits. Of those, my kids like Magnatiles the best - building complicated structures with them daily. But if you want something that emphasizes the logic aspect most, Id go with Wedgits. They have hidden blocks in some of the constructions, so kids have to figure out how to position the blocks using basic logic and engineering skills. With Wedgits though, there is still a lot of room for experimentation and creating novels designs and structures.

Great toy. Great gift. We received one two years ago, and have given this as a present to others. Its a few simple pieces made of solid wood, and you must fit the pieces together to replicate the picture in the book that comes with it. The puzzles in the book progress from easy to hard. Kids of multiple ages will enjoy this, and most kids 4 and up should be able to do this on their own without needing constant help. When we first got it, my then 3 and 5-year olds could do it together. Adults like it, too.

This was a gift for a three year old..... I have not seen it used but I am told that it encouraged an older grandson to get a bigger set.

I got this for my four year old daughter in an effort to please both of us---I presented it as a gift from Santa as a castle game since she has fallen princesses hard. I wanted something to challenger her intellectually and reinforce her spatial reasoning skills. Its great for her---she plays with it frequently throughout the day, pausing to build a set at a time and also free plays with it and makes her own castles. I also give it props for not being chokable sized pieces as we have a one year old and many older kid toys arent floor safe. Better quality than I expected and shes getting more use out of it than I expected. Win win!

My four-year-old loves these! Kept her occupied for hours. Got up to the master level in a couple of weeks. Very good game. Good for building budding engineers.

Great game. I sit with my 4 year old while he solves these challenges. His attention span is pretty short, but he always gets at least three done before he wants to do something else. When hes done with a challenge, he likes to look at the solution on the back of the page to see if he did it right. Its a nice way to get him to think about finding solutions, and a welcome change from jigsaw puzzles, duplo, lego, and other toys and games.