Perplexus!!!

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Brock is an addict. He plays "silver ball" for at least an hour every day, and frequently much much longer. It's pretty mind-boggling the progress he has made. There's only one type of obstacle that he hasn't figured out how to do, and there's only two or three of those in each ball. 

This allows him to complete the Perplexus rookie from start to finish while only handing daddy the ball twice. The original ball is split into thirds. He's completed each third with only one hand-off in each many many times. The epic is a different beast. He's successfully navigated all but three obstacles in the epic on their own, but he can't string together his successes into long runs. (To be fair, I have never completed the epic myself in a single run, and I've tried way too many times. It's crazy hard.) He has many great chunks mastered though, and on some of the harder obstacles he already has a higher success rate than I. Most afternoons we at least have to play until we have "beat" every ball. (Doesn't always mean a front-to-back run. We'll use a magnet to pick up where he fell off.) The picture above is Brock beaming with pride the first time he did all three in one day. You can't tell from the picture, but the silver ball is in the finish cup of each ball. For 20 minutes we were not allowed to touch anything, lest the evidence be destroyed. Then he couldn't resist playing more. 

Here's a video that captures some of his crazy skills. 


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