64 SQUARES THAT CAN SHARPEN THE MIND
Times News Network , India, Chandigarh, 2003-08-12
 

A small step from chaos to order, another step towards symmetrical creativity and bingo, a fine balance between the left and the right brain is struck. It's as simple and complicated as that. It's time to explore mind challenges and creative faculties that are beyond virtual games and channel surfing.

Get on to Kaleidoscope Classic, a healthy addiction. "It is a jigsaw puzzle", explains a student at St Stephens School. Sector 45, where the educational puzzle was launched on Monday. "No it is a chessboard", another chips in and the rest start pouring in their respective interpretations. "Yes it is based on individual interpretations and the product can be broadly classified into intellectual, psychological, educational, and lifestyle product categories", explains Rajiv Ohri, regional sales manager, North-West.

Invented by two Australians, psychologist Dr. Mark T Wood and mathematician-physicist Frank Dyksterhuis, the Kaleidoscope Classic appeals to the left brain, right brain, memory and creativity aspects of intellectual functioning and at the same time can be equally entertaining to a six-year-old or an octogenarian. And unlike the Rubicon or the jigsaw puzzle that becomes boring once the trick is cracked, this 18 piece square board offers mathematically proven 20 billon logical ways of solution.

That means if the fastest computers at NASA or Microsoft start unjumbling the puzzle, It'll take them 637 years to conquer the challenge! All you have to do is think creatively inside the square. The challenges provided with the educational toy are only a start. Once these are conquered, one own creativity takes over, What more? A membership card for the website where you can get new challenge every week for a period of three months and a chance to win through automatic worldwide rating. "It's like buying the toy for yourself and witnessing your grandchildren playing with the same toy after decades finding yet new solutions", explains Ohri. In the limited world of educational and infinite toys that can continue to rule the kid kingdom as well as the adult arena, these 64 squares promise to bust your stress too making all things fall in perfectplace.