(upbeat music)
- (laughing evilly) Everything is in its place
for my plan to control the galaxy.
The Martians are mad at the Venutians,
who in turn hate the Earthlings,
and like dominoes, they will all
fall
down.
(dominoes falling)
(burping)
- [Narrator] You don't have to be an evil genius
to solve Domino Maze,
but it sure doesn't hurt to be a normal genius.
Domino Maze is a single player logic game
that transforms a mesmerizing trick
into a mental puzzle.
Your challenge to topple the targets with a single flick,
and enjoy the fall down.
Begin by selecting one of 60 challenge cards,
and set up the game grid to match the starting positions.
Then use your wits to fill in the space
to make a complete cascade
that can trigger all of the targets.
Along the way, you'll be aided and hindered,
not just by dominoes, but also by blockers and walls,
as well as spinning pivots.
And to conquer Domino Maze,
you'll even need to learn how to fall up,
and take the art of domino runs to the next level.
From the makers of Laser Maze and Gravity Maze,
this logic puzzle is more than a mere domino run.
With dozens of different puzzles ranging in difficulty
from beginner to expert,
you'll be falling over yourself to complete them all.
Domino Maze is available online and in stores now.
Ordinary mazes are great for active minds,
but some people think they fall a little flat.
Gravity Maze is a puzzle in three dimensions.
The single player maze
tests your visual perception and reasoning skills
as you try to move the marble from its starting point
toward, over, and down to the target.
Each challenge card determines the position
and orientation of the start and end points.
Your goal is to arrange the remaining towers
to make a path for the marble's travel.
Think carefully.
Just one turn will throw your marble off course.
Sometimes you'll need to stack towers,
and sometimes you'll need to lay them on their end.
With so many options,
Gravity Maze presents a wonderfully difficult challenge.
Just don't think so hard that you lose your marbles.
Pun City!
- Oh, come on.
Vat19, you can make a better pun than that.
- [Narrator] Gravity Maze includes 60 challenge cards
in four difficulty levels,
offering plenty of maze solving fun
for ages eight and up.
Even after mastering every card,
it's still fun to build your own marble runs.
- It amazemerizing!
- No no no, stop that!
Smart people don't want to hear these dumb puns!
Vat19, come on!
They want to hear about your fun 3D puzzle game!
- [Narrator] Test your mental might with Gravity Maze.
Buy it now at Vat19.com.
- [Narrator] Look closely.
Do you see $500 in cash?
Look
really closely.
It's right here in this can of fruit cocktail.
Diversion Safes are covert storage cases
posing as everyday objects.
Can safes are a convincing diversion
because they're made from the actual containers
they're spoofing.
To stash your cash, screw off the
oh!
Shaving cream!
Okay.
Screw off the bottom and store your valuables.
Whether it's a couple of emergency bills,
keepsakes in jewelry, or priceless dinosaur embryos.
- If you're thinking, hold on Vat19,
robbers are gonna check my canned goods
'cause they've seen this video,
you think they're going to spend precious time doing that?
- Nope.
Nope.
(siren wails)
Nope.
- And that's assuming the thief even knows about Vat19,
and we are no Beyonce.
The only way a crook would find your stash is if
after ransacking your house,
he though to himself,
I am famished from all this burgling.
I could really go for a fruit cocktail.
Sometimes the best place to hide is in plain sight.
Buy Diversion Safes now at Vat19.com.
- [Narrator] The Krypt jigsaw puzzle
is one of the most challenging puzzles ever made.
It's made up of 654 pieces,
and every single one of them has a completely silver face.
- Say what?
- [Narrator] Since no two pieces are alike,
and the solved puzzle has no representative image,
the solution comes from the outline
of the pieces themselves.
Made by Ravensburger, the high quality cardboard pieces
have a perfect interlocking fit.
And did we mention it's challenging?
It's almost as difficult as Tuvan overtone throat singing.
- (strained singing)
- [Narrator] It's almost as difficult as one handed pushups
with two dudes on your back.
- You can do it.
I believe in you.
- [Instructor] Repeat after me. (in foreign language)
- (stutters in foreign language)
- [Narrator] Are you up for the challenge.
Buy the Krypt jigsaw puzzle now at Vat19.com
- [Narrator] This is the Perplexus Warp.
A whole new kind of brain teasing concentration puzzle.
The marble maze's track is wound inside a transparent shell.
You manipulate the maze to move the marble along the track.
It's part labyrinth, part Rube Goldberg machine,
and part exercise and acrobatic dexterity.
Flip, twist, and spin the Perplexus
to roll the metal sphere along the path
as you traverse 80 challenging events
and six checkpoints in three distinct stages.
Of course, you'll need logical thinking skills
to solve the maze run,
but you'll also need skilled hands to get the job done.
As you play, you'll develop the patience of a guru.
But no matter how close you are to the end,
when you fall off the track,
you have to start back at the beginning.
- Namaste!
- [Narrator] Get solving with the frustratingly fun
and always awesome Perplexus Warp.
Buy it now at Vat19.com
- [Narrator] M.C. Escher was an artist
famous for his impossibly complicated drawings,
like this one.
With the Escher Mirror puzzle,
try to recreate this masterpiece, along with four others,
using the property of reflection.
Yeah, as if the images weren't complicated enough,
we're kicking it up a notch.
The base of the puzzle is a durable, square plastic tray.
The nine puzzle pieces are cubes,
each with a mirror inside,
that must be arranged inside the tray
to complete one of the drawings.
The inside walls of the tray display sections
of the five different solutions,
plus several sides of each cube
feature pieces of the artwork.
Place a cube inside the tray
with one of its two clear sides facing up.
Then strategically use the mirror
to reflect an adjacent piece or the wall of the tray.
It's going to take some trial and error,
so use the holes in the bottom
to easily remove individual cubes.
When you look at a completed puzzle,
you're really seeing a bunch of
perfectly assembled reflections.
It sounds difficult because it is,
but it's not impossible,
it'll just keep you occupied for a while.
- How many times do I have to tell you?
- [Narrator] An especially great gift for art lovers,
the M.C Escher Mirror Puzzle
is available now at Vat19.com.
The 36Cube is the world's most challenging puzzle.
The cube is made up of six rows and six columns
of towers with varying heights.
Your goal is to complete the cube
by making it exactly six units tall,
but here's the catch,
only one of each color can be represented
in every row and column.
In other words,
make every row look like this,
and every column like this.
Easier said than done.
- This is barely a derivation of the 36 officers problem,
so I'll just use the Graceo-Latin square formula to solve.
(puzzle smashing)
[Narrator] Even if you can't solve it,
you can compete for the highest score.
Kids age eight and up
will like the hands on problem solving,
and adults will enjoy a healthy mental workout.
The 36Cube Puzzle.
Don't let it beat you.
Buy it now at Vat19.com.
Cogs are the teeth on gears that make our machines turn.
Coggy is the gear themed puzzle
that'll get your mind turning.
This compact mental toy features 16 cog wheels
in a conga line.
Savor the mental and tactile stimulation
of bending, flexing, and contorting the ratcheting snake
to match the pattern on the challenge cards.
With 40 unique challenges in four difficulty levels,
you've got plenty of puzzle to ponder.
About half of the puzzles are played
on the reverse side in black and white,
which is about as difficult as solving a jigsaw puzzle
with the pieces upside down.
- Golly honey,
this puzzle's got me so frustrated,
I could eat my own hat!
(people laughing)
- Now Herb.
- [Crowd and Honey] You know you'll choke to death.
(people laughing)
- [Announcer] Honey and Herb will be right back.
- [Narrator] As you find the solution,
the segments ratchet into place with a satisfying,
(cogs click)
that sort of feels like.
(xylophone plays)
Take compact Coggy on the go,
and bust it out when your brain needs flexing.
(bell dings)
- [Announcer] I'm sorry folks,
there appears to be a dog sized rat on the track.
Please hang tight and expect some delays.
- Dibs!
- [Narrator] Get your head in gear
and get your hands on Coggy.
Buy the cognitive toy, and hundreds more gifts at Vat19.com.
We like to think the game of Konexi originated like this.
(sensual music)
(birds chirping)
(record scratches)
However it came about,
Konexi is a challenging, gravity defying word game.
There are 26 plastic notched game pieces.
One for each letter of the alphabet.
To begin playing, arrange all of the letters in a circle.
On your turn, start by rolling the die.
Then move the token around the circle,
and select a letter to play.
Using only one hand,
add to the growing tower,
carefully connecting the notches together.
Your goal on each turn is to make a word
using your letter and its adjoining letters.
So this guy spelled strap,
but he could have also spelled parts, tarps, traps,
or several others.
You get one point for each letter in the word you make.
- Huh,
J-O-C-K,
jock!
- Um, yeah.
You spelled jock.
Four points.
That's a big word, for you.
- [Narrator] If you make the tower collapse,
you lose three points and the round is over.
The first player to 20 points wins.
The premium edition Konexi game box
includes a zippered storage bag, scoring sheets,
a pencil, the mover token, a special die,
an illustrated rule book.
Perfect for game night,
Konexi is a great gift for any word lover.
Buy it now at Vat19.com.
The old saying goes,
a battle is won before it's even fought.
Battle a friend in Strata Sphere,
a unique layered puzzle competition.
The object is to be the first to get your four balls
into the bottom of the cube.
To claim victory, strategically move your sliders
to get your spheres to drop below.
Each game begins by taking turns arranging
your tri-segmented sliders,
so that they can later be aligned to allow the ball to fall.
Then carefully select a starting position for your spheres.
How you set the spheres and sliders
could very well determine your fate in the game.
Strata Sphere's tactical setup and strategic gameplay
are the two parts that make it a challenge,
so stay focused.
- All right, I should be able to drop my marbles
with four moves.
Or was it five?
- [Man's Voiceover] Great.
You can't remember how you set up the board again.
- I depend on you to remember this stuff.
- [Man's Voiceover] Oh, don't think I won't leave you
for a younger cranium.
- [Narrator] The game ends when all four
of your colored marbles drop all the way to the tray below.
- [Man's Voiceover] You were right.
Here's that fantasy you've always wanted.
(harp plays)
- Ah yeah.
Pool filled with just red Skittles.
- [Narrator] To amplify the challenge,
add the white ball into the mix.
If it drops to the bottom,
the game is immediately over,
and the player with the most spheres in the bottom, wins.
Or add the bonus blue spheres to the cube,
and play for points.
Think twice, move once, and conquer Strata Sphere.
Buy it, and shop for hundreds more curiously awesome gifts
at Vat19.com.
The first videos ever created
used a series of photographs
to prove horses leave the ground when they gallop.
A similar technique places that movie magic in your hands,
with Strobotop.
A series of images are printed around the ring of a disc.
Give them a spin, and shine the strobing light phaser
to make the pictures come to life.
Use the dial to adjust the rate of the strobing light
to create fluid animation,
or play with the speed,
and watch strange stuff start to happen.
Your manipulation can change the way your images move,
and even make time run backward.
The effect is
weird.
The reverse side of each disc
gives you the space to create your own animations
and make them come to life.
Dial in your technique for a well oiled machine,
creep yourself out with creeping creatures,
or get mesmerized by a hypnotizing pattern.
But make sure to use Strobotop for good.
- Yes,
yes.
You're getting very sleepy.
Good, good.
Now write down your bank account and routing number please.
And what was the name of your first pet?
- M.C. Hamster.
- Good, good.
- [Narrator] Each Strobotop includes a spinning tray,
twelve double-sided disks,
and an eye safe light phaser.
The spinning top system is part illusion,
part toy, and totally fascinating.
Buy Stobotop and shop hundreds more gifts
at Vat19.com.
- [Group of Men] (singing) Vat19.com.
(upbeat music)