Building on logic!

Sixteen cubes of 1.25 square inches each with six coloured faces vary in some presumably algorithmically arranged manner! Pixelate from Dr Wood has everything going for it. It retails at `299 and the set of cubes provide varying

degrees of complexity, with a challenge library at each level. Don’t let the Dr Wood Junior branding let you believe this will be a cakewalk for adults. With all her advanced analytics and logic abilities, my friend Usha slowed down to a heckle-worthy crawl at the intermediate level, where the particular challenge expected her to decode unspecified colours!
Manufactured in Noida, the finish of the game has been compromised. The cubes do the job, but they lack the flair in design. The inside of the box has a sweets shop packaging feel, with tacky hand creased folds of the silver inset tray that houses the cubes. At beginners level, the line-up colours on the top face match the patterns in the challenge library. At the intermediate level, you’re grappling with colours on the sides of the cubes as well. The advanced level cues colours in certain sections of the 4x4 grid, leaving you to figure out the rest.
The final kicker is the 3D challenge. A tower of cubes, arranged in a 2x2 grid, four storeys high, where each side has a uniform colour. This is Suduko without numbers. Rubik’s cube without rotation. A good half hour later, Usha has made little headway on the tower. Scattered cubes lie all over the table, in pixelated abandon!
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