Price: $29.99 - $26.37
(as of Jan 02, 2025 19:03:15 UTC - Details)

The ThinkFun Hacker game is a popular STEM toy, ideal for boys and girls who love a challenge. It's an engaging coding board game with 120 increasingly difficult tasks, designed to cater to all levels, from beginners to experts. This game is a creation of the inventor of other renowned code games like On the Brink and Code Master. The game is crafted with high-quality components and comes with a clear, easy-to-understand instruction manual, ensuring that you can start playing minutes after opening the box. Like all of ThinkFun's games, Hacker is designed to enhance critical thinking skills. As you traverse through the progressive challenges, you'll notice an improvement in your logical reasoning, spatial reasoning, planning skills, and core programming principles. The Hacker game is more than just a game - it's a fun, educational journey.
CRITICAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT: ThinkFun Hacker enhances reasoning, planning, and programming principles, providing a fun and stealthy learning experience
TRUSTED GLOBALLY: With over 50 million games sold, ThinkFun is a world leader in brain and logic games, trusted by families worldwide
FULLY INCLUSIVE GAME SET: Includes game grid, control panel, challenge booklet, agent tokens, movement tiles, revolving platform tiles, transaction tiles, and various tokens
CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS: The game comes with a high-quality, easy-to-understand manual, enabling immediate play
STEM TOY: A perfect gift for kids and teens who enjoy challenging puzzles and smart games, promoting educational play
Reviewer: LFP
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best game for kids who want to hack EVER
Review: I've worked in tech for my whole career and started off as a systems programmer and this simple looking board game is hands down the BEST gift for a kid who says 'I wanna hack!'. Challenging logic puzzles that make you think and are realistic logical conceptions of hacking together a solution. i.e. this is far more realistic and inspirational than the kind of z-grade script kiddie weak crim nonsense people think of as hacking.I'm not a board game guy at all but LOVE that this is a board game - the medium is the message! Or is it the message is the medium? Where's Alfred K? 😉

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun game
Review: I purchased this for a 14 year old boy. He did not even touch it. I, on the other hand, did all the cards and had a splendid time. I am neither bored nor have tons of free time, but the challenge was exciting. The game is well made, well explained, and just fun.

Reviewer: Deanna
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great gift for a smart kid but it’s very complicated
Review: I bought this for my 11 years old brother who is very smart and loves to learn new things. He was very excited but the downside is that it’s very complicated—even for adults to figure out. You also have to have other kids to play with and since he is the only kid left in the house he doesn’t have siblings to play with often and it’s difficult to get other kids interested in a complicated game. If you know your kid and their friends would like it then it’s a good gift but they have to have people to play with them!

Reviewer: im
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Many design flaws
Review: The idea of the game is good, to set challenges and solve them. However, there were some design flaws that make the game not fun sometimes. We wrote to the vendor but they never responded, which caused the frustration of the Child and ceased to play it anymore.

Reviewer: Amy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great for challenging fun
Review: The game is a lot of fun and excellent for minds that like to be challenged with puzzles. It can be played by yourself or with another person. Definitely for ages 10+ but older kids would be more likely to grasp it.

Reviewer: Albert Tsang
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice unplugged coding game
Review: Hacker is created by Mark Engelberg, who also created Thinkfun's Code Master, //CODE series and Chocolate Fix.As in the //CODE series, the game is not trying to introduce IT terms like conditions or loops, but to introduce the concepts. In Hacker, players are introduced the concept of concurrency.I only have basic coding knowledge, and so cannot comment whether the concept has been effectively introduced. But I think the game is really fun and has the right level of challenge.

Reviewer: 𝙹𝙰𝚂𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙴 🌻
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Great Gift for Geeks of all Kinds!
Review: I gifted this game to my brother (who is an amateur coder) for Xmas, and he was very excited to receive it! He told me he would let me know how the game goes, once he and his roommates have a chance to play it—so I cannot yet review the playability or learning curve of the game.Regardless, the game was much larger than I expected, arrived well before Xmas, and came undamaged, so I am very pleased with my purchase!

Reviewer: stella
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: a good game if you like SCRATCH and dream to be a hacker.
Review: This is a gift for my grandchild who is 11 years old. She is into Scratch. It was for her difficult to follow the instructions, but now she masters it and enjoyit.

Reviewer: MCGC
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Reto para manejar distintos tipos de desplazamiento

Reviewer: Ivan Morales
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Original

Reviewer: Ericka Mendoza
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Es de muy buen material y llegó muy rápido, fue un regalo de Navidad, por eso escribo hasta hoy...las instrucciones están en inglés... la reseña del artículo estaba en español, no me imaginé que viniera en inglés. ¿Será posible que me las hagan llegar en español? Por favor. Gracias!

Reviewer: José Trinidad Santos Olvera
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Juego con pocos recursos para aprender a jugar

Reviewer: 3D
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 日本語説明書付きとありますが1枚ペラのほぼ説明もない説明書しかついてません。元からついている英語ルールを読めないとプレイ不可です。ThinkFunの日本語説明書付きは信用できません。