Pete's Expert Summary
My human has brought home yet another box of plastic nonsense, this one from a brand called "Educational Insights." The name alone is an insult. What insight could I, a creature of perfect instinct and refined taste, possibly gain from a handful of garishly colored, interlocking shapes? They call it a "Kanoodle," a brain teaser for children and simple-minded adults. It seems to be a collection of small, hard pieces that one is meant to arrange into specific patterns, either flat or in a little pyramid. While the primary function appears to be an exercise in human frustration, I suppose the individual pieces might have some potential as batting-fodder, provided I can scatter them sufficiently far under the furniture before they are noticed. The tiny carrying case, however, is a complete waste; it’s far too small for a respectable nap.
Key Features
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- INCLUDES 200 PUZZLES! Kanoodle includes 200 addicting 2D & 3D puzzles from beginner basic to deviously difficult; there are hundreds of possible combinations, but only one correct answer
- 2D & 3D BRAIN TEASER PUZZLE GAME: Kanoodle is a brain teaser puzzle game that includes 12 puzzle pieces, 200 puzzle challenges, a 48-page illustrated puzzle book, and a carrying case. Perfect brain teaser, travel game
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- MADE FOR ALL AGES: For anyone 7 to 107! Kanoodle is the perfect brain-bending puzzle game
A Tale from Pete the Cat
The click-clack of the cheap plastic case being opened was the first assault on my senses. My human, whom I shall call The Provider, sat cross-legged on the rug, a place usually reserved for my mid-morning stretches. She spilled the contents—a dozen bizarrely shaped, jewel-toned objects—onto the floor. They looked like the discarded bones of some unfortunate, geometric alien. She then opened a small booklet, her brow furrowed in a display of intense, and frankly, unnecessary concentration. Her mission, it seemed, was to follow a diagram and arrange these colorful trinkets into a flat rectangle. I watched from my perch on the heated blanket, my tail giving a slow, judgmental thump-thump-thump against the plush fabric. For several long, tedious minutes, she twisted and turned the pieces, muttering to herself. A green piece was tried, rejected, and tossed aside with a sigh. A yellow one was wedged into place, only to be removed moments later. It was a pathetic spectacle of trial and error, a process I, with my superior spatial reasoning, find utterly beneath me. I could have told her the angular purple piece would never fit next to the lumpy blue one, but offering advice to The Provider is a fool's errand. She learns only through failure. Finally, she gave up on the rectangle and, with a renewed and foolish optimism, decided to build the "3D pyramid." This was my moment. As she began stacking the pieces into a wobbly, rainbow-colored ziggurat, I slunk from my throne. I moved with the silence and grace my ancestors used to hunt mammoths, though my target was far less impressive. The pyramid grew, piece by precarious piece. She was on the verge of placing the final, tiny orange block on the very top, her face alight with a glimmer of impending accomplishment. It was a look I could not abide. With a flick of my wrist so swift it was but a soft gray blur, I sent the turquoise cornerstone piece skittering across the hardwood. The entire structure collapsed in a quiet, colorful clatter of failure. The Provider slumped, defeated. I walked over to the scattered pieces, sniffed a particularly offensive pink one, and then turned my back on the whole mess and sauntered away. The toy itself is a trifle, a collection of static objects for a simple mind. But as an instrument for delivering a masterclass in the elegant, disruptive power of a single, well-placed paw? For that purpose, and that purpose alone, it is exquisite. It is worthy.
