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Khet: The Laser Game | 
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| Brand: Innovention Toys
Category: Toy
Buy New: $34.99
New (12) Collectible (6) from $18.00
Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 2487
Batteries: 4
Batteries Included: Yes
Battery: 4 AAA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 15.8 x 2.4
MPN: DFLXN1
UPC: 689076989299
EAN: 0689076989299
ASIN: B000BVLBD8
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 2 players | | • | Ages 10 and up | | • | 28 pieces | | • | 1 gameboard | | • | Instructions |
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Product Description
Khet, The Laser Game, is played on an 80-square grid with a pharaoh and obelisk playing king and pawn, sort of, plus a mirrored pyramid and a wandering "djed," and it's chess-like, except for the lasers firing from the corners and bouncing off the mirrors. High tech, high action and trulyunique! Deflexion combines lasers with classic strategy for cool, smart...Zap! "Gotcha!" Satisfaction. Strategy at the Speed of Light... Each player begins with 12 Egyptian-themed pieces and a laser built into the board. The goal is to arrange your pieces so that the laser's beam bounces off their mirrored sides with the goal of illuminating opponent's pieces to eliminate them from the game. Players alternate turns moving the mirrored pieces around the playing field after which they fire their low powered laser diode in attempts to hit the opponent's Pharaoh. Deflexion is fun and easy to learn. Developed by mechanical engineering students and similar to chess, the challenge is in thinking about the playing field as a whole.
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 It's chess with lasers! July 18, 2010
E. E. Taylor (Beaverton, OR)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this game. I played it once at my sister's house and I went home and ordered it immediately.
This is an excellent game of strategy that reminds me chess. It takes a lot of thought and planning. Most importantly, it's secretly educational: you learn the underlying principle of light reflection by working with it directly. If you get the additional pieces, the Eyes of Horus, they allow for reflection and refraction which adds an additional level of difficultly (or so I'm told). To make the game even more challenging, you can work in teams. It's difficult to discuss strategy when the other team is right there so you have to be cryptic about it. Anyway, it's a wonderful game!
Awesome game June 25, 2010
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this game, and since i liked lasers and stuff, i bought it. Good for teaching kids about light optics and how light reflects. Reflect laser light and try to get it to touch your opponent's "pharaoh". Has an Egyptian theme to it, don't know why.
 Poor Manufacturing ruins a great concept May 30, 2010
Nicholas A. Mantzios
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This game is enticing when you first see it online. It looks like a lot of fun, and I thought so while setting it up and all. It's a great concept, but there is something that went awry in the manufacturing of the game board. Now this may not be true for all the games, but there were two problems. The first problem is the game board had a shoddy paint job to say the least. The second, and this is what ruins it for me and everyone else, is that as you add more and more mirrors and change the path, the laser diverts from a straight path and will eventually miss the mirror altogether. After experimenting with game pieces and the laser, I realized that both were to blame. The laser cannon is not aligned properly, and a few of the mirrors are poorly angled. This is NOT a problem with the player. I had friends come and all tell me the same thing. I even double checked with another persons game set, and it had the same problem. I even saw a person returning their game to a hobby store. I asked why and they also said the same thing. Save yourself the money and find an actual mensa worthy game, because this one, although has a great concept, the manufacturing makes it unplayable and unenjoyable, unless you like imagining there's a laser that works and reflects properly.
Khet March 7, 2010
Timothy (Vermont, USA)
This is a family favorite. Since it involves lasers, it's a really good idea for kids and it's somewhat educational about geometry. I also recommend the expensions Khet - Eye of Horus Beamsplitter Expansion Pack Khet 3D: Tower of Kadesh. I received this for christmas a couple years ago and nothing has happened to it yet, even though it has been treated fairly roughly by many young children. I think this is a great game for adults and kids alike.
WAY More than Meets the Eye... March 2, 2010
J.S. Knapp (Hagerstown, MD)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently purchased this game to explore some new at-home activities for my Wife and I. We spend so much time at work and commuting to-and-from that when the weekends arrive, we never want to leave the house. We sought something that we could enjoy together, indoors, any time of day.
I've always wanted to play strategy games with her, but she's not interested in CCG's, or games like Risk, Axis & Allies, etc. Checkers is far too repetitive for me, and Chess is too hard to teach and understand.
I - like others - was captivated by the fun factor of "lasers" with Khet. But what began as simply a gimmick has become much, much more.
Our first round with Khet was surprisingly short. Unsurprisingly, I won. The second game was equally as quick, but my wife emerged victorious. She'd go on to win two more games. The reason for this is that Khet quickly teaches you that there is MUCH more strategy to bouncing a laser across a small playing field than one might initially think.
The most important reason for this is the fact that each player has their own laser. I wasn't exactly sure how this worked, and had to wait to open the box to actually figure it out. Players "fire" their own laser at the end of each turn, and any piece which is struck on a non-reflective side is removed from play. This requires some diligent thinking, as you not only have to plan the course of your own laser, but must think proactively as to what potential pathways your opponent's laser can take as well. In addition, all of the "setups" provided with the instructions will force your lasers to meet both yours and your opponent's pieces, meaning that at any given point in the early turns of the game, your path could be drastically changed thanks to your opponent. In the early turns, I failed to take my Wife's pathways into consideration, and suffered some humiliating defeats!
The setups of Khet may be an unfamiliar aspect to those used to playing Checkers and Chess, where every game starts the same. However, since your own pieces are vulnerable to your own laser, and it could take 8 turns or more to move a single piece across the map to create a new angle for your laser, the setups allow for faster gameplay and require the need for strategy immediately at turn 1. However, the setups are by no means permanent, and players are encouraged to create their own setups as desired. The [...] website helps this by allowing visitors to create a setup using a Flash-driven application, and then copy HTML code into a website allowing them to "store" their setups (provided they have some sort of private webspace.)
Khet plays fast, but Khet plays hard. In our most recent game, my wife failed to notice how an offensive move by my Djed piece actually changed the path of her own laser, aiming a beam directly at her Pharoah (the "King" of your pieces.) After moving a piece outside of her laser path, her casual expression changed to one of total shock as her Pharoah lit up at the end of her turn. This is the challenge of Khet - one that in my opinion will force players to constantly change their methods and expand their strategies. It's not as simple as it looks, but it's really a lot of fun.
On the alignment issue, it seems to be hit and miss - sometimes my laser hits the edge of an obelisk after just 3 bounces, but other times I've had it hit dead-on beyond bounces. It's not so much the lasers as it is the pieces - some are just more precise than others. Many times however a game is won in 3 bounces or even less, making it a rare - and thus a rare aggravation - that alignment becomes an issue.
I'll be adding the expansions, soon!
**EDIT** I'm not sure why Amazon censored my website above - it's a website FOR the product I'm reviewing... Anyways, to visit it, simply take the NAME of this product (four letters, starts with "K" and ends with "het") and add the DOT-COM on the end... ;-)
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