- Smart Sticks Elemental Chemistry, STEM Science Toy for Kids Ages 8-14, Learn Periodic Table Elements, Fun Educational Game & Puzzle, Gifts for Boys & Girls 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Years

Good and learning gift.

I love chemistry so this is a great game and my son loves games so it works out. While the black cards are fun the grey cards are frustrating if you get stuck. The rules are easy to understand but some youtube videos would have helped. We have now stopped using the grey cards and the game time has reduced which is fun. Its a good game for half to one hour but not more.

It has simple questions which can be solved easily. This is great for all ages.

Smart and fun game, keeping the kids engaged as well as able to learn.

Amazing

Bit costly in the card games. Also vedio demi would help to play the game effectively.

Beautiful game for the quiet minds. A good gift for kids 7-11 year olds . Good Quality cardboards used, just wish if the text font size were a little bigger Otherwise a great game and screen free time activity for tweens and teens

Good quality…value for money

Just as ordered. Interesting and a bit different.

A great game, but I feel like the decided is an unnecessary gimmick that detracts from learning.

I work with a bunch of science types in the environmental field. We have a diverse background, but we're all pretty much nerds. I've been trying to help with overall morale around the office, so I've started silly little games and contests. This is perfect for my crowd. You get exactly what's described. It's all contained in a can about the size of a Campbell's Chunky Soup can. The lid pulls off and the spinner is embedded on top. You get a decoder to use for hints on some. The rest of the pieces are the "sticks" with the elements and trivia on them. Some are pretty easy and basic, others not so much. The spinner will land on yellow or red, and you pull accordingly. You will want to go through your sticks and make sure that a yellow or red bit is facing up. Otherwise, you're fumbling to find what you need. Really cool idea, and yes, a good way to learn if you have a classroom.

Educational games are notoriously tough to design, as it is difficult to design something that can facilitate learning while still retaining fun game play. I appreciate the effort here, but it unfortunately falls a little flat. Upon opening the package, the first unfortunate thing I noticed is that there was already rust forming inside the top cap around the edge (perhaps that's opportunity for an extra chemistry lesson?). The top cap is a spinner with 6 segments, but only 2 colors to choose from, so it looks similar to a trefoil radiation symbol. Depending on which color the spinner lands on, you pick a stick of the corresponding color to read to the other players. The yellow cards contain 3 clues to be read, to get other players to guess what element is on the card. These work pretty well. The red cards actually end up being more of a challenge to the reader, as they are more of a "Taboo" style set of cards, giving 3 words that can't be used to describe the element. From a game play perspective, without teams and someone watching to make sure the clue giver doesn't use one of the "no no" words doesn't work super well, and there's no real incentive for the clue giver to want to do a great job describing an element, since the first person to guess the element is the one who wins the stick/point, and the reader gets nothing. Then, there's some extra bonus text on these sticks that's only readable with the special "decoder" red lens, for some unexplainable reason. A single player collecting 5 sticks wins the game. Ultimately, the biggest problem with this game is the drastic lack of questions. With 60 sticks in the game, there are only 30 of each color. And, since each stick has ONE element featured on it, I'm failing to see how the game can help kids learn about 118 elements, when only about half of them are featured as the answer to the questions being asked as part of the game play. With so few questions, this game can only be a couple times before all the questions have been used, and repeating the same questions, especially when each element only ever appears on one stick, quickly loses the "fun" aspect. This would have a lot more replay value as a game if there were a lot more sticks, with multiple sticks of each element, each of which contain different information/clues, so that it's not possible to just memorize most of the questions in short order. As this game sits right now, I could see it being useful as a type of flash cards covering the more common elements, but those aren't necessarily things that most kids would consider a "game."

my son loves exploring, asking questions and learning anything about everything. this is great for his sponge of a brain!