Mad Cave Bird Games: Captivating Adventures Await You

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1. Owen Verified Buyer – 29 August 2024

   Great game, something you can start, have a break then come back to. Love it.
   

2. Janie Verified Buyer – 20 January 2025

   Great
   

3. Lee Elsy Verified Buyer – 25 January 2025

   It is amazing and fun to play sudoku in colors! I am already addicted to this game.
   I do have some recommendations for earlier reviews mention problems that the colored balls rolling out from the wooden board while playing. To prevent, you can play with the wooden board place inside the box, don’t take it out. So you can prevent the balls from rolling out and lose it. Should the ball roll out from the slot, it will still be inside the box. Hope it helped to solve the problem 😊
   

4. Sudoku as a group! So fun. Great wooden quality and colors. Verified Buyer – 22 March 2025

   colorku review JDB 4-4-15 We purchased this game a year and a half ago and it has been without a doubt the favorite game my wife and I like to play together. She has always enjoyed the numeric version one sees in books and newspapers, but I was not attracted to working with numbers. But the Colorku board is a different matter. First, It involves colors, not numbers, which I find more appealing. Second, it is in a board version, where the colored balls can be put down and moved around. It is shareable format where more than one person can be work on in a puzzle together. We’ve had the Colorku board and balls on our breakfast table for a long time now, and we immensely enjoy solving the puzzles together. Particularly with difficult puzzles, we feel a rush when we manage to ferret out a ball placement that “breaks” the puzzle, after which the remaining ball placements are more and more straightforward until the puzzle is solved. We’ve purchased all three sets of puzzle cards, though the easy set is a little too easy for us. We have, incidentally, found a couple of games that had double solutions. Since there is no single solution, they cannot be solved logically. We found the difficulty ratings for puzzles variable: sometimes we could do harder rated ones, but were stumped by puzzles with lower ratings. We are now at level 65 in the hard deck and are solving most of them. We still get the high of having cracked a difficult puzzle! We are developing a vocabulary of the game: we call a single ball location a “cell,” a 3×3 division a “square,” and a line of 9 cells a “row.” We have developed a number of strategies for determining colors of cells. We looking for triples (a single color pattern across three squares), colors needed for row completion, the constraints on where a particular color can be placed in a square, and seek “bound” pairs and triples. A bound pair is two cells, each able to contain only one of the same two colors. Similarly, we look for bound triples, or three cells, each able to contain only the same three colors. Identifying bound squares and triples doesn’t necessarily “solve,” in the sense of being able to put a particular ball in a particular cell, but it adds constraints to the puzzle which may make it possible to solve cells in affected rows and squares. To help our analysis, I designed and 3d printed double- and triple-cell shapes which can be placed on the game. Colored balls can sit on these shapes, and it indicates that the color is not specifically located, but can be in one of two, or three, spaces. A bit like quantum particles which exist in two spaces for a while. We have found this method to be quite helpful. Should someone be interested in printing these, I can post the .stl files on Thingiverse. We have yet to tire of colorku, and continue to love the time together, the mental stimulation, and the rush of completion. We do worry that the supply of puzzles is limited to three packs. The game designers map the nine colors to the numbers 1-9, so it is possible to take a numerical game and translate it to a colorku game. This, however, is a bother. It would be great if the designers would come out with more puzzles, or possibly some program or app that would take numeric Sudoku puzzles and print out color puzzles/solutions.

   

5. Rayj Verified Buyer – 3 April 2025

   An absolutely brilliant game essentially for solo players. I experienced it first in the States and have been waiting for it to be available in the U.K. for something approaching US prices. This is it and it’s worth every penny – beautifully made and fit to last a lifetime (if only the cards were as well – as other reviewers have said it is the weakest part of the package but don’t let it put you off).
   

6. Kathy Hann Verified Buyer – 6 April 2025

   The package arrived on time and in great condition. The game is great for ages 8+. I think the game is expensive, but well worth the money.