[Ad – Gifted Products] We are quite a big video game household, partially, I feel, because Dann and I both work in games. Minecraft feels like a game literally everyone in the world has played anyway, and it’s a game that we’ve played as a family quite a few times. Kai use to have a Minecraft themed room, we’ve played Minecraft board games and even read Minecraft books. So, when we heard about the Thinkfun Minecraft Cave Adventure toy, we were very interested in seeing how Robin faired with it, as she’s a big toy lover.
The Thinkfun Minecraft Cave Adventure is a sort of logic-based toy that has a variety of different puzzles, all marked as different colors to show how challenging each one is. We started off with green, which don’t have any mobs to fight and are quite easy to get around, to get our barring. To start the game, you need to slide in the puzzle you want to solve then create the world. This is pretty easy and just has you plugging in stuff dependent on the squares on the card. Some of the places need lava, others stacks of rocks. Sometimes mobs and torches need to be placed out. Each card does have a start point (a door) and an end point (a chest) that you need to get to.
Once the whole level is made in Thinkfun Minecraft Adventure, you need to pull out the movement tiles that you get. These are listed on the individual level, so it’s easy to bring them into a pile in front of you. From there, you need to decide how to place out all of your move tiles, so that they solve the puzzle. Torches need to be touched, enemies need to be slain, and everything needs to make sense and connect near each other. Often, Robin found, that it’s easier to work from the places that would need to use jumps as jump movements feel really specific to where it could go.
The Thinkfun Minecraft Adventure puzzles do get quite challenging, especially as you work your way to more complex cards. Robin and I liked thinking about them together, moving pieces around and trying to figure it out. Often, Kai and Dann chatted about things that needed to be changed too, how they thought a puzzle would be solved, and where the pieces needed to line up. It becomes a sort of family game, with puzzles that we all were interested in solving together, making it a fun thing to do. It also feels very satisfying when you do finish a puzzle.
My daughter used to love Minecraft when she was younger, I think a group of them still play it now
This is such a fun idea! It makes learning and problem-solving so much fun. All kids love Minecraft!
I am sure my son would enjoy this on a rainy day like today. My husband and the kids used to love building worlds in Minecraft – they also used to collect the figures so I am sure they would enjoy this.
This is so so cool. My nephew would love it, he is addicted to playing Minecraft, Thinkfun brings it offline. Love the idea.
I love toys like these…. so much fun and educational too. I so have to look into this more as this may the perfect gift for someone special on my gift giving list this holiday season 🙂 Thank you for sharing!
I wonder what my daughter will be into as she gets older, esp as hubbie is a gamer. Although neither me or hubbie were into Minecraft but I wonder if she will x