I'm not sure, but you can also purchase it at www.braillegifts.com. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mich Verrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 7:43 PM Subject: Re: audyssey: News you can use
> hi this game sounds really cool and i am just wondering is it also beaing > sold at Walmart in Canada? many thanks. > From Mich Verrier from New Liskeard Ontario Canada > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ken downey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 6:36 PM > Subject: audyssey: News you can use > > >> There is a new game that's out which is totally 100% accessible. It's >> called K-ball, and you can get it at Wallmart for $10. Right now it's on >> clearance for $5. >> K-Ball is, of course, a ball. It has six raised circles, each a >> different >> color. Around the edges of the circles are brailed numbers. That's >> right, this game comes pre brailed. It's like a rubic's cube. You twist >> and turn it, mixing all the colors, then you have to solve it so that >> each >> circle is all the same color, or, in our case, so that the same number >> goes around the entire circle. >> Each piece is a number, and the ball is made up of 4 pieces of each >> number >> and color, with six different colors and numbers, making 24 pieces in >> all. >> Compared to the rubic's cube, this may sound like a breeze since the cube >> has 9*6 or 54 pieces. Also waiting to fool you is that the cube has six >> possible ways to turn, while the K-ball has only three different ways of >> turning. The trick is in the fact that the cube is totally linear, while >> the ball is full of curves. The hardest part is that unless you can read >> Braille sideways and upside down, you have to continually turn the ball >> to >> read the numbers--that and you have to really twist your mind around it >> to >> get numbers from one circle to the next. Though the concept of the >> k-ball >> is similar to that of the rubic's cube, the game play is totally >> different. . I highly recommend that you all get this game though. >> It's >> not as easy as it sounds. >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> >> >> to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/VPRolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindgamers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
