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As a kid I always enjoyed slider puzzles, those puzzles where a picture is printed on squares and you must move the squares around until the picture is formed. ZenBender’s is a version of these puzzles with one twist. Each square is actually a cube that can be flipped when the empty space is next to it. Each of the six sides of a cube has similar patterns/pictures to those on the other seven cubes. This means that there are a number of different pictures that can be made with the eight cubes on the three by three grid. Eighteen double sided cards offer thirty six such pictures/puzzles and the task of the player is to pick a card and then flip the cubes and slide them around (all without lifting them from the tray) until the picture in the grid matches that on the card. Chances are good that if you enjoy the old fashioned slider puzzles then you will enjoy ZenBenders.

The maps in this folio are basically identical to the maps that you get with the adventure itself. The first exceptions are the two 'poster' maps, which are four times larger than the two identical maps on the inside of the Player's Guide. The map of Magnimar is also the map from the blog, not the map from the AP itself. The paper, glossy, is a bit thinner than I would like but that's a minor complaint. My only other complaint is that I like bigger poster maps. Other than that, the map quality is better than I can print myself with my ink-jet.

If you want to save ink and like not having to flip back and forth in your module between the maps and the room descriptors than this might be worth the money for you. I cannot imagine why anyone would want the PDF of this product if they already have the AP itself. Overall, I am pleased with my purchase, but I would be reluctant to pay much more for it.