cuboro marble runs
cuboro is a learning system that offers to both children and adults exciting challenges in spatial imagination and systematic thinking.
cuboro marble runs
cuboro is a learning system that offers to both children and adults exciting challenges in spatial imagination and systematic thinking.
cuboro marble track system grows with the player.
Starting from simple two-dimensional tracks up to highly complex three-dimensional mazes, cuboro marble tracks will fascinate children and adults for years.
cuboro is a marble track system consisting of 5 cm-cubed elements made of natural Swiss beech wood. cuboro elements feature different features on the surface as well as tunnel and acceleration functions
The 54-cube Starter.
cuboro standard is the large starter set for the award-winning wooden marble run.
The 30-cube Starter.
cuboro basis is the smaller starter set for the award-winning wooden marble run.
The Jubile Limited Edition.
An elegant, special edition jubilé set for the 25th anniversary of cuboro.
The Path is the Goal.
The new cuboro strategy board game for all age.
Simplicity to Complexity
Create countless marble runs by arranging the functional blocks into simple two-dimensional or complex three-dimensional structures.
Simplicity to Complexity
Create countless marble runs by arranging the functional blocks into simple two-dimensional or complex three-dimensional structures.
Seemingly endless possible tracks and limitless challenges
Playing with cuboro is a continuous process of building, testing and adjusting.
Small children from 5 years of age and up build simple tracks which run on the surface of the cubes. More complex track systems emerge through practice and conscious planning.
With increasing spatial ability the inner functions of the elements are discovered. The tracks become more and more interesting due to the combination of outer and inner functions.
Get building & rolling with the starter sets
The starter sets contain the central elements.
In the cuboro Standard set (54 blocks), 23 of the blocks are solid wooden blocks that serve as the foundation for the constructions. The remaining 31 provide an assortment of 12 different functions.
Each of the functional blocks provides part of a marble path - channels, tunnels, cross, drops and curves etc.
More possibilities and challenging constructions can be achieved by expanding the collection with the supplementary sets and the sixpacks.
Designed for both flexibility and complexity
cuboro can be an open-ended, creative, scientific exploration without any need to build specific structures. It can also be played in a closed-ended puzzle-solving approach.
Contrary to most marble run toys having inclined tracks with marbles roll to a lower place naturally, cuboro is different - there are no inclination on the tracks. Marbles will loose momentum and stop on the track surface if they were made too long. The players have to think and plan carefully to keep marbles run until the end.
The Acceleration Set
Simple extension to the standard sets with 6 additional functions - the Accelerator elements make longer marble runs possible.
The Pair Run.
Lane changing elements make it possible to interconnect the conventional lane with double lanes.
The Tube System.
This tube system set has various horizontal curves on the inside of elements to allow a change of direction within the tunnel without changing levels.
The Trick Chest.
This expansion set has ingenious elements to allow acceleration and coincidental experiments in tricky track systems.
For the lil' Ones
For the little ones, the cugolino offers an ideal entry into the cuboro world.
For the lil' Ones
For the little ones, the cugolino offers an ideal entry into the cuboro world.
cugolino - the cuboro junior
For children from 3 years of age, you can purchase the cugolino - the cuboro ‘junior’.
cugolino offers the little children an exciting challenge for building and rolling with simple and obvious marble tracks. cugolino does not need a rulebook – simply unpack and get started.
cugolino is 100% compatible with cuboro and therefore the ideal entry into the fascinating world of cuboro... or an exciting extension to it. Younger kids can start with the basic cugolino kit and extend it with the supplementary kits for more creative fun.
The Lil' Starter.
cugolino is a great entry for the younger ones into cuboro's unique block-and-marble runs.
The Catapult.
cugolino Hit has a hammer to catapult the marble to a maximum level of four cubes.
The Trampoline.
cugolino Pop has special trampoline-elements to let the marbles bounce!
The Subway.
cugolino Sub has specially milled elements to allow the construction of longer courses, tunnels and half-planes.
Playful Learning
Provides joyful experimentation that improves dexterity, develops logical thinking and extends concentration span.
Playful Learning
Provides joyful experimentation that improves dexterity, develops logical thinking and extends concentration span.
Real Toys, Real Benefits
Cuboro presents a stimulating learning system which offers to both children and adults great challenges in the fields of spatial imagination and systematic thinking process.
The player can improve cognitive abilities such as three dimensional and combinatorial thinking and operational planning while at the same time improving concentration and memory.
This “toy”, originally designed for children, has proved a “mind-challenger” which not only entertains but leaves a lasting effect in players of all ages.
Intellectual Development
Develops a child's mental abilities and intellectual processes, as well as extend their innate curiosity and intrinsic mental aptitude.
cuboro and cugolino marble track systems are designed to encourage cognitive development include: problem solving, science, matching and sorting activities, and fun experiments
Creative Development
Develops the abilities of child to express their creativity.
cuboro provides an open-ended play opportunities encourage your child’s creative development and allow for their own natural imaginations to run wild!
Motor Skill Development
Assists a child's ‘head to toe’ development and includes both fine and gross motor skills.
Tasks such as stacking and playing with marbles all encourage the development of fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination skills. The development of these skills allows for greater hand strength and dexterity, as well as better coordination of hand movement.
Constructing cuboro or cugolino marble tracks encourages a child to move around and will enhance gross physical development.
Social and Emotional Development
Encourages a child to regulate their own emotions, develop resilience and confidence, build friendships and resolve social conflicts. Through team play and general play activities your child will be given the opportunity to learn to identify, control and express a wide range of positive and negative feelings.
cuboro & cugolino in a team play setting encourages social and development areas of children.
Communication Skills
Develop a child's ability to communicate, either directly or via non-verbal methods, such as facial expressions and body language.
Team play with cuboro offers a child various opportunities to extend their language skills and non-verbal language skills, such skills are acquired through telling, explaining, listening and "negotiating".
Approaches Toward Learning
Enables a child to be successful in school in many ways.
By understanding the various styles that involve children in learning and playing with cuboro, adults can encourage and increase a child's engagement. Curiosity, creativity, independence, cooperation, and persistence are some of the approaches that cuboro offers to enhance early learning and development.
Swiss Quality
Produced in a modern Swiss family joinery. The sophisticated manufacturing process, which involves dozens of delegate steps, achieves accuracy and precision far surpassing the global standards in the wood-processing industry.
Swiss Quality
Produced in a modern Swiss family joinery. The sophisticated manufacturing process, which involves dozens of delegate steps, achieves accuracy and precision far surpassing the global standards in the wood-processing industry.
Swiss Quality, Durability, Sustainability
The cubes are manufactured with only chemically untreated beech wood from local trees harvested from the region of Oberaargau/Emmental. The beech wood is certified by the FSC (Forrest Stewardship Council).
The untreated cubes are produced in a modern Swiss family joinery under the outmost eco-friendly manufacturing methods.
Quality
For over 20 year the processing has been in the hands of a highly specialised joinery, a family business, in Gondiswil, Switzerland.
The craftsmen transform quality wood into works of art. The blocks are precisely cut and sanded smooth. Taking the time to properly dry the wood results in cubes consistent in size and high in quality.
Durability
The cubes are manufactured with only chemically untreated beech wood. The high-quality processing of the untreated cubes guarantees durable playing pleasure with non-toxic wood.
Sustainability
cuboro is exclusively manufactured with Swiss beech wood from the Emmental/Oberaargau region. Since 2006, our quality toys are solely manufactured with FSC accredited beech wood, meaning wood coming from exemplary cultivated forests.
The beech wood that the cuboro cubes are made from is harvested by the family in an ecologically sound manner.
The excess wood left by the manufacturing process is not discarded; rather it is burned in the kilns that methodically dry the blocks to ensure that they maintain their precise shape and character.
Timeless Classic Toy
It's hard to beat the truly classic cuboro marble runs that keep proving their everlasting fun decade after decade.
Timeless Classic Toy
It's hard to beat the truly classic cuboro marble runs that keep proving their everlasting fun decade after decade.
A Heirloom Toy
cuboro is a heirloom toy that can be passed down for generations as it is timeless and durable. It also grows with the child – from 4 years olds all the way up to adults, from simple tracks to complex track systems using the same set.
Not only cuboro grows according to the child’s standard, parents and grand parents also feel elated at this multi-generational toy.
It is rewarding to watch and listen to the marble zip through the blocks. Every kid (and adult) loves the satisfying feeling when the marbles complete their creation successfully.
Great for both Solo and Collaborative Play
A child (or adult for that matter) can have fun playing with the blocks on their own.
Children with difficulties integrating into groups can be motivated to construct larger track systems together with others players.
They can also have fun collaborating with other children, their parents, and even their grandparents. It is a great way to develop teamwork and social skills.
From Special Education to Gifted Programs
The inventor, Matthias Etter, envisioned cuboro when he was working with children with special needs (some with motor skill disabilities, some with injuries, some with autism).
Having seen the power of simple marble runs to extend the concentration and develop some critical skills and awareness, he created one of the finest, most open-ended wooden marble construction toy available.