SmartGames Color Code Cognitive Skill-Building Puzzle Game Featuring 100 Challenges for Ages 5 - Adult

Adults and children alike will be challenged by this game which enhanced your visualization and spacial relationship skills. My optometrist and vision therapist use this to help improve vision skills. Cheryl

This is a great game. The easy levels are super easy, but the hard levels will challenge adults. It's a really fun game to play with your kid and you can always select an appropriate level for them. I played it with a 3-year-old and a 9-year-old and also tried myself. We all found an appropriate level. If I could give it 6 stars, I would.

I found this game addictive. Try it. You'll like it.

The Color Code! A game by Smart Toys and Games is one of the most original games for kids I have come across. Color Code has many things we look for in a game, it is engaging and fun for multiple ages (including me), educational and something my kids can do without much help. It isn’t really meant for more than one person to play at a time but we have discovered the wonderful art of taking turns and team work with the help of this game.Color Code is meant for ages 5+ but isn’t hard to set up or understand for kids around 4. After a few levels it gets challenging even for adults. This makes it very fun for my son when he beats a puzzle. Especially a puzzle that I couldn’t. Also, sort of frustrating for me with a hint of embarrassment…ok maybe more pride.This game helps kids problem solve, focus, accept and work through challenges and of course colors and shapes. My son is VERY proud and excited when he figures one out and honestly so am I…when he figures one out. Ok I get excited when I figure one out too but these can get challenging! My 3 year old daughter loves naming the colors and for her we have recently begun setting up the puzzle minus one piece (top piece) and giving her a couple (2-3) options to choose to complete it. This helps you visualize the puzzle and have that sense of accomplishment when she gets the right one!For more on my review check out Adventures with My Geeklings [...]

what an amazing game for your kids mind

This game looked really fun to me. Bought it for my 5 year old to play during a road trip and it worked out really well. He likes it a lot and I feel like it is a decent mental workout for him. It's not like any other games we own, which I really appreciate. The pieces are large and attractive and there are enough puzzles to really get a chance to enjoy it. Unlike other SmartGames puzzles we own, this one is very much doable by a young child at the expert level. I'd say it's fun to play with it as an adult, but I can't see an adult actually being challenged by this game. So, rather than 5-99, I'd say maybe 4-8 max. Games like IQ link on the other hand are quite challenging for me as well as my son. I do recommend this game, it is very fun and a great idea.

My daughter adores logic puzzles and has eight of them now, seven of which are made by SmartGames. I recently went on a bit of a buying spree because we had an 18-hour car ride ahead of us (and 18 hrs back) plus her birthday is next month. This review is to address something I didn't see in any of the reviews I read--and granted I was in a bit of a hurry--which is the appropriate age range for the games as they compare to one another, ie if you are deciding between games.IN MY EXPERIENCE, the lower end of the age range is most appropriate. For example, Night and Day is listed as 36mos-6 years but my girl who turns five next month does the puzzles without having even to think about them. In other words, no challenge whatsoever. We just bought it and already it's obsolete.Luckily, inside one of the games was a "US Collection" brochure which lists all SmartGames and their target age. If you are hunting around for a logic game and aren't sure where to start, use this chart. And yes, they really are this age-specific. I can see an obvious progression in required thinking/logic skills between a recommended age 3 game, a recommended age 4 game, and the recommended age 5 games. (And no wonder she's not interested in Anti-Virus--it's for seven-year-olds! Something I failed to notice as I got caught in the "clicking around amazon" rabbit hole.) Anyway, here is the info from the catalog:3+ Day & Night3+ Castle Logix3+ Trucky 33+ SmartCar4+ Camelot Jr (we have gotten hours of play out of this one)5+ Bill & Betty Bricks5+ Color Code5+ Pirates Hide & Seek5+ the GoGetter games 'Cat & Mouse' and 'Prince & Dragon'(These are exactly the same game just themed differently.)5+ Magnetic Travel Waterworld5+ Magnetic Travel Magic Forest5+ Magnetic Travel Busy Bugs5+ Magnetic Travel Noah's Ark6+ IQ Fit6+ IQ Twist6+ Aqua Belle6+ North Pole Camouflage6+ Penguins on Ice6+ Chicken Shuffle7+ bendit7+ Temple Trap7+ Anaconda7+ SmartPhone7+ Safari Hide & Seek7+ Road Block7+ Cannibal Monsters7+ Anti-Virus7+ Troy: Outside The Walls8+ MetroVille8+ Traffic Control Airport8+ TitanicAs always, I love the learning component, the progression in difficulty of the puzzles, and the quality of the games! And most fit back into the box (Bill & Betty Bricks, Camelot Jr), are self contained in that the board is also the case for the pieces (Color Code, Pirates, Dog & Cat), or come with a little zipping bag (Anti-Virus). Day & Night does not have any kind of container and the box doesn't work as a container, so that is a bit of a bummer.Specific to Color Code I would like to add that the concept hasn't captured the imagination of my girl yet, who will turn 5 next month. But she has spent hours with the 3yo- and 4yo-targeted SmartGames so I'm sure this one will become of interest as her thinking skills mature. The plastic tiles are a bit "clacky" and can be annoying. Also, while the color tiles store in the base, the instruction booklet does not. Lame.

I bought this for my grandkids a few months ago (two 5-year-olds boys and 7-year-old girl). They really like this! It's not a game, but can be used as a noncompetitive game between a child and adult - I don't think it would be fun with more than two. The small booklet that comes with it has a lot of different designs to try to copy, with the easiest ones at the beginning, working up to master-level of difficulty. The booklet is easy for children to navigate, because the levels of difficulty are color-coded. The answers are all in the back (also color-coded according to difficulty level), if you need to peek. The kids have felt triumphant as they become able to do designs that are a higher difficulty. The harder ones are challenging even for me; sometimes I've had to peek at the solutions.The kids have enjoy this so much that they want to play with it every time they come. We take turns, with the child choosing the difficulty level that they want, and with me choosing one from the back. The quality of the game is great - I'm sure we'll have this for many years. I will be looking at more of this company's games.