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THE AMAZING PRODUCT THAT STARTED IT ALL R o g e r v o n O e c h’s

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Ball of Whacks

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30 MAGNETIC DESIGN PIECES AND 96-PAGE CREATIVITY GUIDEBOOK

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The Ball of Whacks is a perfect creativity tool for innovators, artists, engineers, writers, students, educators, and you!

A fabulous gift, its uses are as wide-ranging as your imagination.

At home, at work, or in the classroom, the Ball of Whacks lets you be the designer, the inventor, and the creative genius!

AN ENGINEERING MARVEL Each piece of the Ball of Whacks is a “golden ratio” rhombic pyramid, one of nature’s most appealing shapes. Held in place by 180 rare earth magnets, these pyramids fit together to form a perfect 30-sided rhombic triacontahedron, considered to be a masterpiece of mathematics.

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If you have to buy something for an engineer, writer, artist, or musician, Ball of Whacks will make your creative loved one happy. This thing will stimulate their brain in the way they love.”

— Rhonda, Editor Latest Greatest Gadgets and Gizmos

FUN AND CREATIVITY ROLLED INTO ONE Inspired by the idea that a playful attitude is fundamental to creative thinking, the Ball of Whacks was designed as a creativity tool for developing ideas.

The 96-page guidebook provides: • strategies for problem solving • insights into the creative process • exercises for creative brainstorming • challenges to construct suggested shapes and invent new ones

Creative fiddling with the Whack units enhances geometric intuition and a feel for mathematical relationships in three dimensions.”

— James Boyd, Richmond VA Mathematics Teacher journal review

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AVAILABLE IN RED, BLUE, AND BLACK

6-COLOR BALL OF WHACKS Six contrasting colors transform the Ball of Whacks, expanding its creative possibilities with color challenges for even more brain-teasing fun!

WHACK OPEN YOUR CREATIVITY!

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Ball of Whacks ®

30 MAGNETIC DESIGN PIECES AND 96-PAGE CREATIVITY GUIDEBOOK

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SOLVE THE 6-COLOR PUZZLE! Can you assemble the Ball so that NO same-color pieces touch along their sides or at the points?

Like the original red Ball of Whacks, the Multi-Colored Ball of Whacks is comprised of 30 pyramid pieces that click together with 180 rare earth magnets. The Multi-Colored Ball takes the creative building blocks a step further. Six bright colors transform the Ball, adding another level of engaging play skills. Players are challenged to reconstruct the Ball-shaped puzzle with no two same-colored pieces touching anywhere — not even at the points.

Once you have mastered that brainteaser, it’s time to get creative!

The Multi-Colored Ball of Whacks earned Level 5 Ratings (highest) from The Toy Man for: Critical Skills Development, Educational Value, Fun Factor, Innovation, and Marketing Value.

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no same-color pieces touch along their sides

no same-color pieces touch along their points

The Multi-Colored Ball of Whacks has taken a completely different approach to brain teasers and puzzles. It is a product that is designed so perfectly that people will be constantly drawn to it. The Ball of Whacks is quite challenging and requires the person using it to stop and knock the dust off their brain cells to realize the full level of challenge and fun which the Ball of Whacks holds within itself for them. The Ball of Whacks gives maximum stimulation to critical/cognitive skill development and improvement and obviously improves creative and learning skills well beyond what one would even imagine.”

—The Toy Man

© 2014, 2018 Creative Whack Company.

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THE THREE DIFFERENT PYRAMID-SHAPED PIECES OFFER GREATER CHALLENGES AND MORE CREATIVE OPTIONS

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PLAY WITH THEM… HAVE FUN WITH CREATIVITY Arrange all of the pieces at once or make multiple structures. Invent whacky new shapes. Pieces click together easily—less frustration and more fun!

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36 red magnetic pieces

The Big Ball of Whacks introduces several exciting new design features. Bigger than the original, award-winning Ball of Whacks, it has 192 rare earth magnets inside so it looks and feels hefty in your hand! The 36 magnetic design pieces include two entirely new pyramid-shaped elements.

There are 24 Whack pieces, six Half-Whack pieces, and six flat Whack pieces. This complex structure presents a greater challenge in reconstructing the Ball shape. It also opens up far more hands-on THE BIG BALL OF WHACKS IS ALSO creative options as you design your own shapes.

AVAILABLE AS A MULTI-COLOR Includes 96-page Guidebook.

VERSION, WHICH MAKES AN INTRIGUING BRAINTEASER PUZZLE.

This “cat” shape was created by combining Ball of Whacks, Y-Ball, and Star-Ball pieces.

COMBINE THEM… All Creative Whack pieces can be combined, or used with other metal objects or surfaces. Separately or together, the more you handle the Creative Whack products, the more creative ways you’ll find to use them!

This “bowl of strawberries" shape was created by combining Ball of Whacks, Y-Ball, and Star-Ball pieces.

WHAT'S A “WHACK”?

The inventor of the Ball of Whacks, Roger von Oech, uses the term “WHACK” to connote something that stimulates us to think differently—to break us out of our habitual thought patterns, so we can solve problems in a fresh, new way.

JUST GO WITH THEM! CLEAR YOUR HEAD WHILE YOU EXERCISE YOUR MIND Nothing beats Creative Whack products for relaxation. Use them to help clear your mind, as an aid for meditation and to relieve stress.

STRETCH YOUR IMAGINATION!

THE SHEER PLEASURE OF PLAY LEADS TO EXPLORATION AND ENDLESS DISCOVERY WITH THESE KINETIC TOYS

X- Ball

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30 red X-shaped magnetic pieces

This toy is fun to play with, has a lot of neat shapes you can make, and is a fantastic ‘snack-sized’ diversion.

Everyone here loves it.”

— Neil, CA

The uniquely angled magnetic X-shaped pieces allow imaginative users to invent their own shapes and designs.

PLAYS WELL WITH THE X-BALL!

The magnetic Xs click together to form a geometric orb, inspired by Da Vinci’s favorite shape — the skeletal iscosidodecahedron.

It’s easier to make than it is to say!

Beyond a cool geometric orb, combine the X magnetic toy pieces in endless ways to form amazing designs.”

—Fat Brain Toys

Y- Ball

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The geometric inspiration for the Y-Ball is the skeletal truncated icosahedron.

Sporty blue Y-pieces fit together to form an exciting soccer ball shape. As you start to “kick around” some creative ideas, you’ll find the magnets lead you to construct more interesting shapes than you expected.

I like having this toy on my desk at work mainly because it makes me look cool. In addition to making me look more creative and worldly, this toy is super addictive and fun. Highly recommended.”

—Marbles the Brain Store customer

© 2014, 2018 Creative Whack Company.

COMBINE THE Y-PIECES WITH YOUR IMAGINATION TO INVENT COUNTLESS NEW SHAPES!

30 blue double “Y” magnetic pieces

MORE VERSATILE THAN A PUZZLE AND MORE FUN THAN A BRAIN TEASER!

Star- Ball ®

32 yellow magnetic design pieces Star-Ball is a companion product to the popular Ball of Whacks. Both are based on the rhombic triacontahedron, a geometric gem that is pleasing to the eye and the hand.

Star-Ball is both a fun puzzle and a stimulating creativity toy rolled into one. Star-Ball may be the most challenging Creative Whack product yet.

Take the Star-Ball CHALLENGE! Put the pieces back together to form the original Star-Ball shape, combining all the legs with the correctly aligned magnetic polarity. There are 12 fivelegged stars, and 20 tri pieces. Polarity dots help you correctly combine the five-legged stars with the three-legged “tri” pieces to reassemble the original star shape.

The 32 magnetic, yellow pieces can be rearranged in countless different ways.

Once you pick up the Star-Ball and start playing with it, you’ll find all kinds of creative uses. Star-Ball pieces can also be combined with the award-winning Ball of Whacks for even more creative possibilities.

An excellent puzzle for the puzzle fan, for use in creativity exercises during workplace training, or as a meditation aid.”

— Black Cat Review

Eure K a BA LL

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12 red magnetic design pieces This amazing creativity tool will help you tap into your Eureka moments, because there’s something about working the hands and the eyes together that fires up the neurons!

The Eureka Ball consists of 12 magnetic design pieces — each a seven-sided, truncated pentagonal pyramid. Together, these Eureka pieces form a beautiful 12-sided dodecahedron, one of only five polyhedrons that make up the class of “Platonic solids.”

Polarity markers help you connect positive magnetic sides with negative magnetic sides.

Once you have mastered the Eureka Ball challenge, enjoy creating new designs and shapes. That’s when the fun begins!

IT'S GEOMETRIC ART! A perfect coffee table toy and travel toy.”

Endless possibilities for creative and logical connections.”

Encourages hand and eye interaction, enhancing message delivery to and from the brain.”

—Fat Brain Toys

ROGER VON OECH Sunrise at Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Roger von Oech, with a young Buddhist monk who is turning the Ball of Whacks into a sun.

AWARDS AND ENDORSEMENTS Ball of Whacks Awards: ★ Creative Child ~ Seal of Excellence ★ ASTRA (American Specialty Toy Retailing Association) ~ Best-For-Kids Holiday Toy ★ Parents’ Choice ~ Recommended Award Winner ★ iParenting Media Award Winner

★ Museum Tour Award “Informal Education Product of the Year” ★ San Francisco Exploratorium ~ Top 25 Gifts ★ Toy Directory Top Toy Award ★ Fat Brain Best Desk Toy Winner

SIX-Color Ball of Whacks Awards: ★ ASTRA Best Toys to WOW Kids ★ ASTRA Top 20 Toy Fair Picks ★ NAPPA Honors Award ★ Toy Man ~ Seal of Approval, Award of Excellence, ★ iParenting Media Award and eChoice Award ★ Creative Child ~ Preferred Choice Award

Endorsements:

“Roger von Oech has won a loyal following around the country.”

★ Family Review Center ★ edplay recommended new products ★ TDMonthly Round Table Review

X-Ball Awards: ★ iParenting Media Award ★ Creative Child Seal of Excellence Award ★ Toy of the Year Award ~ Creative Play

★ Natl. Assoc. for Gifted Children (NAGC) Toy List ★ Tillywig Toy Award ★ Fat Brain Toy Award

Y-Ball Awards: ★ Toy Fair Product of the Day ★ Creative Child Award

★ iParenting Media Award

Star-Ball Awards: ★ Kids Product of the Year Award ~ Creative Child

★ National Association for Gifted Children’s (NAGC) Recommended Toy List

—BusinessWeek

COMMENTS AND REVIEWS:

Von Oech’s book A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative has sold nearly 2 million copies, and has been translated into 18 languages. Praised by business leaders, educators, and students, his popular Creative Whack Pack ® card deck has sold over 500,000 copies. Roger is also the author of the Innovative Whack Pack ®, the Creative Whack Pack ® Success Edition, A Kick in the Seat of the Pants, and Expect the Unexpected or You Won’t Find It.

Cooler than Rubik’s Cube. There’s no right or wrong way to play with it.

— Bob, West Chester, PA

ARNING: NOT FOR CHILDREN UNDER 14 YEARS W OF AGE. Keep away from younger children, pets, and pacemakers. These products contain rare earth magnets that can be harmful or fatal if swallowed.

Great care is taken during the production process to securely seal the magnets inside each piece by means of ultrasonic welding. However, these products are not intended to be thrown or otherwise abused.

Use only as described. If plastic pieces become damaged, dispose of product properly.

Beauty drives creativity, and the Ball of Whacks is gorgeous!

— Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet Awesomely fun and gets the brain juices flowing.

— Karl, Hopewell Junction, NY The Ball of Whacks is an ingenious creation. I am especially intrigued to see that it contains the elements of the Golden Ratio, which adds to its elegance and educational features.

— J. Walter, Athens, GA My aging parents love the Ball of Whacks. All the residents in their retirement community want to have one. It’s ideal for older loved ones who need to keep their minds active.

— Agnes, Jamestown, ND Entertaining and great for your mind! I wanted something hands-on and scientific.

Playing with the Ball of Whacks is mind-stretching.

—Aaron Stark, Springfield, MO

© 2014, 2018 Creative Whack Company.

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ll Creative Whack products were created by Roger von Oech, an award-winning inventor. Roger is also a best-selling author, and creativity consultant. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in the “History of Ideas.” His seminars and products have enriched millions of creative minds around the world.

★ Selected by Washington Family Magazine as a favorite “Gift to Go” ★ Playthings Toy of the Week

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BOW30

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BOW31BLU

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35.00

17.50

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BOW38BLK

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35.00

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25.00

12.50

BIG Ball of Whacks ALL RED

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BIG Ball of Whacks SIX-COLOR

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Ball of Whacks Original RED Ball of Whacks ALL BLUE

Ball of Whacks ALL BLACK Ball of Whacks SIX-COLOR X- Ball RED only Y- Ball BLUE only Star- Ball YELLOW only ®

Eureka Ball RED only ®

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IMPORTANT— PLEASE NOTE OUR TERMS BELOW: MINIMUM ORDER REQUIREMENT IS $100.00 • ALL ORDERS SHIPPED FOB STAMFORD, CT MINIMUM ORDER – The minimum wholesale order requirement is $100.00.

TERMS – Net 30 Days. Terms are established based on credit approval. Late payments are subject to an additional charge of 1.5% per Month (18% per annum.)

SHIPPING – F.O.B. Warehouse Stamford, CT. Customers are responsible for all freight charges.

RETURNS – All merchandise is shipped NON-RETURNABLE. Unauthorized returns will be refused at customer's expense.

PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. BILLED PRICES ARE THOSE IN EFFECT AT TIME OF SHIPMENT.

© 2014, 2018 Creative Whack Company. Created and Designed in USA. • Made in China. All Rights Reserved. U.S. Patent No. 7,247,075. Ball of Whacks, X-Ball, Y-Ball, Star-Ball, Eureka Ball, and Big Ball of Whacks are registered trademarks.