Quirky puzzle game based on real, accurate physics demands critical and creative thinking
100 levels provide a variety of challenges for players with differing abilities
Five unique sandboxes allow for experimental play and let you hone your skills
Three mini-games let you stage matches against friends and take on new challenges
Colorful, hand-painted background art and atmospheric music for a rich all-around experience

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Product Description
Professor Heinz Wolff's Gravity is a game of 100 set-'em-up and knock-'em-down puzzles, all based on the laws of physics. Players construct devices from building blocks, levers, conduits, and other parts. True to the title, most puzzles are solved by harnessing the force of gravity, through a rolling ball, a falling block, or other such event. Some puzzles have players creating contraptions of Rube Goldberg-like complexity, although many have more than one solution, and often the simplest works as well as any. The Wii edition of the game also includes 20 "sandbox" levels, for player experimentation, as well as four multiplayer mini-games.

Amazon.com Product Description
A quirky, detailed puzzle game, Professor Heinz Wolff's Gravity for Nintendo DS packs all the fun of real, scientific experimentation without requiring you to sit through any boring intro-class lectures. You'll arrange objects, take advantage of common gravitational effects, and learn from the unexpected as you tackle a new endeavor on each level. .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: 20px; } table.callout { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, serif; margin: 10px; width: 250; } td.callout { height: 100 percent; background: #9DC4D8 url(http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/callout-bg.png) repeat-x; border-left: 1px solid #999999; border-right: 1px solid #999999; padding: 10px; width: 250px; } ul.callout { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: -12px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; } h5.callout { text-align: center; } img.withlink {border:1px black solid;} a.nodecoration {text-decoration: none} 100 levels with hand-painted backdrops present a variety of challenges. View larger. Professor Heinz Wolff is a charismatic scientist and a popular star from the BBC's Great Egg Race. 100 Thought-Provoking Levels of Real Physics Featuring the renowned German-British scientist often associated with the BBC's Great Egg Race, Professor Heinz Wolff's Gravity offers 100 increasingly difficult levels capable of providing challenges for puzzlers of all ages. Your big objective? Put chain reactions and simple structures to work for you as you try to press the button on each level. You'll find yourself rolling balls, stacking bricks, and trying to transport glassy eyeballs across the screen on funky wheeled carts. Of course, the biggest factor is gauging the effects of the real, accurate physics behind every movement. Designed to Keep Puzzlers of All Abilities Busy The fact that players can test and retest different configurations makes this game a great introduction to problem-solving for young scientists. But seasoned experimenters are likely to enjoy it too, since they'll quickly get caught up in trying to solve each problem in record time or with the quirkiest series of events. Whatever level player you are, if you get stuck, the game offers you access to a bank of points that can be used to "buy" in-game hints from the professor and jump-start your thought process. And, just like real-world problems, the challenges in this game can often be overcome in a variety of ways, allowing for creative solutions to all kinds of conundrums. Unique Backdrops, Experimental Sandboxes, and Head-to-Head Intellectual Combat This game also offers five unique sandboxes that allow for experimental play and let you hone your deductive skills while creating crazy reactions. And it includes three mini-games that provide an arena for staging matches against friends, parents, siblings, and classroom rivals for bragging rights and real-time tests of your reasoning ability. Additionally, hand-painted background art in bright colors adds a fun, slightly whimsical feel to each screen, while atmospheric music helps ensure that you stay immersed in the professor's physics-rich puzzle-solving world.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 14 reviews)

good for the brain by J. Werthman

5 Stars
September 30, 2009
this one is great for exercising your brain. and if you can't figure it out, they'll give you a few hints. i'm still enjoying it.

Open-Ended Puzzle Solving by Zandaxar (USA)

5 Stars
September 26, 2009
Basics: A ball rolls downhill and you have to position objects in its path to indirectly cause the ball to hit the target. Pros: The puzzles are generally well-constructed and are fun to figure out. Many of them can be solved in more than one way so there is room for you to be creative. The mysterious gothic ambiance in backgrounds and music is a nice touch. Cons: Puzzles don't really increase in difficulty after about number 30. If you are an experienced puzzler then it may not take you that long to complete all 100 puzzles. No editor or online component to make and share your own puzzles. The minigames don't have any puzzle aspect to them. The sandbox mode can be fun for a short while, but there really wasn't enough to do in there. Comments: I didn't feel the designers reached the full complexity level they could have, but still there was enough challenge(don't use the hints option if you are worried that this game will be too easy) in the puzzles that I felt accomplished when I was done. Overall I enjoyed honing my spatial reasoning skills with this game and would definitely buy the sequel if they make it. Hopefully they will also offer a shareable level editor like in the DSi Mario Minis March Again game.

Great mind teaser by gamer

4 Stars
June 04, 2009
this is a great mind teaser game. i took it on two plane trips and im not even half way through yet. it starts out easy but gets challenging.

I'm probably not the sharpest tool in the shed by P. A. Rodgers (Eugene, OR USA)

5 Stars
May 19, 2009
This is a challenging game, and it took me some time to realize that you didn't necessarily need to use all of the items that were available. The objective of each level is the same, to get one of the items to hit the button. The challenge, of course, is to figure out how exactly to do that, with increasingly difficult paths presented to reach said button. I'm currently stuck at level 36 (don't be snooty, you whiz kids!), and it's frustrating to try every combination you can think of with the same negative results. But, I really enjoy putting my brain to the test, and I will continue to play this game, regardless of my results. Final analysis is that it's fun! The music is pretty dull, though.

Don't like it by Matt Johnson (PA, USA)

2 Stars
May 18, 2009
I picked up this game recently thinking it would be like a more developed version of a fun web-based game, like the excellent N+. This was not the case. I played for one day, finished about 30 levels and felt unfulfilled. The controls are simple, yet caused a lot of frustration. You tap the touch screen with the stylus to bring up the object palette, then select an item to place it in the level. You can then grab and drag the piece to put it where you need. However, I can't count how many times I tried to pick up an object, only to have the object palette pop up. Over and over again. Trying to pick up a very small object made me quite angry as well. And I'm not saying the puzzles were too easy, but, unlike in the aforementioned N+, finishing a puzzle didn't feel satisfying at all. It just wasn't that much fun.

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