Chocolate Fix

Chocolate Fix

 

You're the confectioner and you're filling candy orders. The problem is, you only have partial information about each order and you have to figure out the rest of the order using the clues that you're given. Here's your chance to work on logic and problem solving, all in nine delicious bites. 

Chocolate Fix includes 9 candy pieces - 3 caramel, 3 chocolate and 3 strawberry. Each flavor has 3 shapes - 1 triangle, 1 circle, 1 square. The candy and wrapper are one piece, and all pieces fit nicely into a candy box tray. The set I have has light brown pieces (caramel), not white, and does not have those coin shaped place holders. If you go to look for this on Amazon, you will see this box (image above) as well as they're new updated packaging.

The puzzle book has 40 puzzles that range in difficulty from Beginner to Expert, so you get a chance to keep challenging yourself as you advance. Each puzzle will give you the location of some pieces, by color only, shape only, and in some cases color and shape are given. You job is to place all 9 pieces into the base - completing the puzzle using the clues. As the challenges get more difficult, fewer pieces/locations are given and/or more than one option is possible. The puzzle book folds out to a convenient easel stand. The answer to each puzzle is on the back of the card.

Below is a photo of a puzzle and the solution (found on the back of the card). This is puzzle 10 out of 40.

Everyone like this game, including me. 

If you would like to read more about one-person logic puzzles, check out my post What's in Your Therapy Box? Logic Puzzles Edition.

Try this:

• Look at the answer key and place a few of the pieces. Let the individual figure out the rest. As he gets better, reduce the number of candies you place until he is doing it alone.
• Use the game in a simpler way, if the player is unable to solve the challenges, to promote spatial awareness. Show each answer page to the individual and have him line up the chocolates in the tray in the same locations.
• Go through the reasoning steps verbally to help the player learn how to eliminate certain possibilities.
• Complete a puzzle yourself, reasoning out loud as you go, as the individual watches. After completing the puzzle, take the pieces out and see if the individual can solve the puzzle again on his own.
• Work on logic, problem solving, manual dexterity, visual discrimination, spatial relations, visual closure, process skills, executive functioning skills, play and leisure exploration and participation

In the box: Plastic base, 9 pieces of plastic candy, puzzle book, bag for storage

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