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Genial, muy entretenido y fácil de aprender. Se retan ellos mismos y crean circuitos a recorrer.
Además es muy educativo y se adapta al nivel de nada niño.

Our daughters had much fun learning the basic premises of coding. It’s a was a bit difficult for her at first, but she got better with time. It’s nice and cute, easy to put together, even my daughter could do it, and it’s made from a good plastic. Overall keeps them distracted and helps them learn

We received this Code & Go Robot Mouse Activity Set for free from Chatterbox to play with and review. I showed my 4 year old son and 8 year old twin daughters an ad for the toy and they were very excited to try it. When the packaged arrived we tore it open, eager to get started, but were disappointed to learn that we needed 3 AAA batteries to get started. It may be helpful for the manufacturers to print that on the box so if you are buying this as a gift you can be sure to include the batteries so it can be played with right away.
Once we got the batteries in the robot mouse we began to assemble the tiles to make a surface for the mouse to move on. My 8 year old did this easily, choosing to make a square and using math to figure out that with 16 tiles she could make a 4X4 square, which made me happy to see she was already learning! My 4 year old, on the other hand, needed assistance to connect the tiles because the sides have either male or female connections so they have to be assembled correctly. I can see why the box says age 5 and up!
Once we got the tiles assembled, we looked at the activity cards, which give suggestions for mazes to build, from simple to more difficult. We started with number one and assembled the maze. Inserting the maze walls was easy, and we used the tip in the instructions to make sure the wide edge of the cheese wedge was facing out so Colby, the robot mouse, could find it easily. Then we decided which moves the mouse would need to make and selected the coding cards. Colby has arrows to push that tell him which direction to go, an action button that you can add in for extra fun, a go button for when you’ve put in all the steps, and a clear button in case you want to start over. The clear button is important, especially with the long coding sequences, so you can start over if you make a mistake. That alleviated a lot of frustration. We were excited when we coded the first maze run and it worked!
I think this toy is great. It’s easy to use, it teaches important skills, it builds on simple activities and gradually gets more complex which, as an educator, I know is the correct way to build skills. I like the versatility of it, as well. Several configurations can be made with the tiles and maze walls, or the mouse can be programmed to go across the floor in a more free form way. It even has a separate setting for that. It’s great for a variety of ages and teaches important skills that kids will definitely need in this modern world. It’s very open-ended and allows for creativity, and works for a range of ages and skills. It was even fun for me, the mom, so it’s a great family activity!

I was concerned at buying this coding set because of the negative reviews, but I am very glad I took the chance and picked it up. Our mouse had no issues and worked perfectly. Its still working after an entire year of use and I did not even need to change a battery yet. The only thing that happened was If the surface was not completely flat sometimes the mouse would not rotate the full amount or would curve slightly, but overall it was very successful. I loved how the mouse remembered the code unless you erased it so you could add additional steps to the sequence or repeat it going through the maze as many times as you want. I loved how you could add in silly actions (the red lightning bolts show this on the instruction cards), make up your own levels, solve the levels on the cards, and the board could be assembled into various shapes. We recommend this to people wanting to teach sequencing / coding to young kids. We used it with a 6 year old on a very low pile floor rug. Just make sure your child TURNS OFF the mouse before storing = )

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Works well for 3 years-old with simple tasks, and for 5-years-old with more complex ones. Not sure about durability as we tried it only for one day. But seems like a good and durable game. Just don’t throw the mouse into a wall 😀