Genius Kit, Ages 6-10, 7 STEM Learning Games, Spelling & Math, Fire | Includes Osmo Fire Tablet base + 7 hands-on games covering math, spelling, art, coding & physics, ages 6-10

We bought this for our daughter with ASD for Christmas. She does require a lot of support when playing new games. But Osmo is amazing! It will give her a prompt when she needs to do something. After 20 seconds or so, if she hasn't figured it out, it begins to give her more detailed, helpful directions. It keeps her engaged and teaches her fantastic problem solving skills. We ended up buying her the pizza and detective games as well. She loves it and we love it! Highly recommend to parents.

We got this as a Christmas gift for our 6 year old son, and so far, he and I have both enjoyed playing it together! I will say that the games included in the kit aren’t quite as much fun as the games that can be purchased separately. We really enjoyed Math Buzz but it did seem to get a little repetitive. He also got bored with Tangram after creating 5 or so shapes. We haven’t tried any of the other games that were included so I can’t speak on those. So far the only other game we’ve purchased separately and opened is Detective Agency, and it is a lot of fun! The additional games aren’t inexpensive so this may not be the system for your child if you don’t want to have to buy additional games to keep things fresh. But the games are similar in price to Xbox, Nintendo, etc. So if they put a little more time between him and those “big boy” consoles, that’s worth it to me.

My grand daughter was having difficulty in school and needed assistance. While visiting a school-mate she was introduced to Osmos and loved it. Hmmm, a gift idea. Since my grand daughter received it she uses it daily. She loves learning and doing so much better. Now she wants some add-ons to go with it. We both love it.

Girls were being home schooled and this helped immensely ( used for 3 yrs— ages 4-7

First, the kit is amazing! I love how engaged my 6 year old son is with the "games" and how easy it is for him to navigate. I can download more games and order more tiles, so the device can grow with him. I love it... with one exception. To properly use the reflector (which is how the game reads the tiles your child is playing with) on the 2020 FireTab8, you need an adapter. I bought my son a fire tab, the osmo, and headphones, then got the whole thing set up and realized the kit doesnt come with the adapter band. It's $7-$9 on it's own, which wouldnt be an issue if I'd known in advance and if it were easy to get. Sadly, it won't be in stock til mid January. We're making it work but with frequent readjustment to the reflector. All in all, it's a wonderful gift. It's not made with cheap plastic, and it has little grippers on the legs so it wont slide around. My son has been using the words game for an hour and doesn't look bored. Don't let the adapter put you off, just be prepared and order it when you order the Osmo. ❤

This is awesome. My kids love it and it's 100% educational! It keeps them engaged while teaching them all sorts of skills. In the short amount of time that we've had it my son has greatly improved at school. I highly recommend greeting the complete set. It's worth every penny!

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This is really a great augmented reality concept. Unfortunately, it is a terrible, terrible implementation. So terrible, that I feel obligated to write a review and warn others about this product. Read on if you'd like to see what you are in for... First of all, I bought this product for my 8 1/2 year old daughter as a Christmas present. She has a Fire HD 8 (10th edition). That is going to become really important in a moment, because we bought the product that says it is compatible with the Fire HD 8. Only it's not... Read on. I have a degree in Computer Science and am a Sr. Solutions Architect for a Fortune 100 company. I design software for a living. So you could say I'm pretty qualified to review this product. First off, when we opened the packaging, we didn't find the piece of cardboard that told you what to do with the product. We looked all over. We found nothing. No booklet, no card, no pamphlet, no instructions of any kind. Okay... so eventually I wander over to the Osmo website and it says to go to the app store and download Osmo World. So I did that. It had be enter in a parent email and then sent me a 6 digit code via email that I had to enter in to the app. This takes me to the main Osmo World screen. I clicked the mirror thing over the camera as shown on the box... but the Osmo World app REFUSES to go in landscape mode. Yep. The literally designed the software to be incapable of operating in landscape. Who does this? What is wrong with you people? I search online and after spending more than HOUR fighting with the useless Osmo tech support "BOT" that is less trained than my dead dog, I finally learn that if I have a Fire HD 8 (10th edition)... I have to buy a $10 adapter that is not included in the box. WHAT? Key word here is the 10th edition. Because Amazon put the front facing camera on the landscape side of the tablet, and all the other editions of the tablet have the camera on the portrait side, which apparently the Osmo wants. The $10 adapter was not included in the edition that we bought. We can order it off of Amazon. I read more about this adapter and learned that it's basically a rubber band that serves as a spacer to keep the mirror from covering up the camera. That's it. Well dang... you don't really need this stupid thing. I'm a computer engineer, don't forget. So sure enough, if you extend the legs on the base and snap on the mirror over the camera and just make sure there's a little gap so that it's not covering the camera, it'll work. Ok, off to the races, right? Unfortunately, the Osmo World doesn't care or know that you have the adapter or not, it still REFUSES to display in landscape mode. So yes, the main app ONLY renders in portrait mode, period. Oh, did I mention their website clearly states that only SOME of the Osmo apps, but not all, will work in landscape mode? Yeah, they don't mention that on the box, and I double-checked after this fiasco. So we were able to get it work with a couple of apps. But that's it. Remember me mentioning there were no instructions? Well, the NEXT day, I found a piece of cardboard that contained a simple instruction to go to the Osmo website and redeem a special code that was printed on the cardboard. We never saw this yesterday, and would have saved us a little bit of trouble, but not much. So today I did that, and this unlocks the 7 games this thing is supposed to come with. Well guess what? The instructions have you log in on your parent profile, and you have to individually find EACH of the 7 games in the Kindle App Store, and download and install each of them 1 by 1. That took about 20 minutes just do that step. The next step... you have go into the Fire settings, into the profile & family management, select your child's profile, then share content, then click apps & games, then you have to select all 7 of the apps you previously downloaded. Then you log out of your profile and then log into your child's profile. Done, right? NOPE! Now, you have to click on each of the 7 apps which are now shown under the "Shared Content" section, which proceeds to RE-DOWNLOAD each app all over again. So... yes... ANOTHER 20 minutes to download and install all 7 apps a second time. Holy mother of a hamster. And after ALL that jazz... the Osmo World is basically a front "menu" app, and ALL it does is act as a terrible launcher for the apps, which you have to MANUALLY install individually, twice. Oh. my. lord. This is beyond stupid. In this day in age, they couldn't figure how to do this more efficiently so it would all be built into a single app. The people came up with this product had a great idea... unfortunately, they implemented it in the WORST possible way. They deserve a specially reserved place in the opposite side of heaven. I mean... Really. Save your money. Buy your kid something else. This is a TERRIBLE product.