Spin Master Games Jeu Perplexus - Go! Harry Potter Vif d'Or

This is a brilliantly designed game, which won the Toy & Game Innovation Excellence award for 2021, but, due to the Pandemic, has not had a wide release. I have several Perplexus ball challenges already and looked forward to pitting my hand/eye coordination against this small and fiendishly clever design with its numerous Harry Potter Hogwarts references.If you don't know, the idea of the game is to guide a ballbearing around a course of obstacles contained in a plastic ball - only in this case it is a smaller plastic ball and a very detailed course, full of invention, supremely engineered - if you move the ball in the right way, the ballbearing will get around all the obstacles - it's so cleverly done, and full of Harry Potter references, not least the moving stairways which appear to drop into place as you get the ballbearing towards them, so clever. You'll be surprised how quickly you learn where to put your fingers for each move, and how to pace and place the ball, it's addictive.It is much smaller than, say the Perplexus Epic or Perplexus Portal which are a full-handful. This is like a grapefruit size, though very light. It looks great in its stand, a Golden Snitch indeed with wings, the whole puzzle is gold coloured. The route you have to navigate is very cleverly designed, incorporating a number of Harry Potter film references, including the ovoid Quidditch stadium shape, a magic doorway, the rickety railway under Gringotts Bank, and the flight path of the Snitch, as well as a swinging stairway which is used, I think, eight separate occasions. To fit so much cleverness into so small a ball is amazing!I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to grips with it. It packs a real difficulty punch and therefore a continuing satisfaction in playing. Well done the design team. Very playable indeed.

Purchased for my son who is a harry potter fan. He loves it but finds it a challenge, thankfully he doesn’t like to quit!

I got this through amazon warehouse so was slightly reduced on price, unfortunately it came with the second trap door obstacle loose but I am still able to play the maze, spent 4 hours or so and yet to complete to step 30. The snitch is a great addition to the perplexus range

It was smaller then expected. Generally BAD! Maze much too difficult poor quality :(

The moving stairs get stuck. Not sure if this was a bad run, but very disappointing. Renders the puzzle useless.