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cuboro was developed by Matthias Etter when working with special-needs schoolchildren in 1976 in Berne, Switzerland. It started as a simple learning game with a few elements (cubes with channels and tunnels). If you assemble the elements correctly, a marble passes through to the end, i.e. the exercise has been performed correctly.
Depending on how old you are and how skilled you are, you can solve the problem by a logical approach, trial and error, imitating, copying, learning by heart, practicing step by step or also by touching and feeling for those with impaired vision. The experience stays the same: through wise combination of individual elements a functioning system is created.
Matthias Etter extended the game and marketed it with twelve basic elements (in different versions) as a «game for both young and old» in 1985. Over time, cuboro was expanded with additional sets containing themed elements. Eighty two different elements are currently available.
The complete range of cuboro products is distinguished by its precise workmanship, manufactured respecting ecological concerns. In the joinery, a family business based in the Swiss «Emmental», untreated beech wood is used exclusively. The wood goes through a special drying process which ensures an outstanding precision of the blocks that lasts for years. Administration and headquarters of cuboro are situated in Hasliberg Reuti, Bernese Oberland, from where the product is sold worldwide.
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| 1985 | The original form of the game is first sold under the name «Konstrito»
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| 1986 | The name of the game is changed for legal reasons
Registration of the brand cuboro.
International protection of intellectual property for the most important elements (O.M.P.I.)
First trade fair participation, ORNARIS Berne, Switzerland
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| 1987-93 | Various trade fairs (Switzerland and Germany)
Important reviews and articles in various newspapers and magazines
Launching of the website www.cuboro.ch
Implementation of different cuboro supplementary sets
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| 1994 | Presentation at the Nuremberg Toy Fair, for the first time on the company’s own initiative
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| 1995 | The «Complementi» designer prize is awarded to the game
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| 1996 | Warehouse with shipping department is set up in Wieren/Germany
First Swiss cuboro championship on the occasion of the Toy Fair in St. Gallen
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| 1997 | Foundation of the company cuboro Ltd. (AG, SA) Switzerland
First edition of the jig saw puzzle-game Alhambra with international protection of trademark
Exclusively for WWF Switzerland cuboro standard is manufactured from FSC-accredited wood
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| 1998 | Registration of cuboro trademark protection in the USA
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| 1999 | New international protection of intellectual property
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| 2000 | Fifth Swiss cuboro championship
First babel tournament at the trade fair «Suisse Toy» in Berne
International protection of trademark babel
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| 2001 | New company headquarters in CH-6086 Hasliberg Reuti/BE, Switzerland
Publication of the first cuboro book «Bahnen 1»
Launching of the interactive web tool cuboro-webkit
September 11th catches up with “babel” – its cover showing the Manhattan skyline and babel’s slogan «who stops the construction of the tower» is given a rather macabre reference to reality
Cooperation with the company Eduswiss (Seoul) starts, official representation in Korea (cuboro Korea)
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| 2002 | babel’s new edition, the more suitable «King-Kong» version
Translations of the book «Bahnen 1» into 4 foreign languages (French, English, Dutch and Korean)
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| 2003 | Developing and marketing the new version of Alhambra, now including an extensive didactic guide
In Korea, the first cuboro-exercise books are published. Several extracurricular schools successfully offer courses for systematic playing with cuboro
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| 2004 | cuboro receives the German toy award «das goldene Schaukelpferd» in the category «artists and master builders»
Cooperation with the company Niki Tiki (Tokyo) starts, official representation in Japan (cuboro Japan)
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| 2005 | cugolino is released, building and rolling from the age of 3 - 4 years old. Preliminary stage and addition to the cuboro system
cuboro participates at the World Fair EXPO 05 in Aichi, Japan, as one of the 60 Swiss top products, «Top of Switzerland»
cugolino and cuboro standard are now generally manufactured from FSC-accredited wood
1st cuboro-championship in Germany on the occasion of the world's biggest toy event in Essen from October 13th - 16th
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| 2006 | cugolino pop, the complementary set to cugolino, lets the marbles bounce.
All cuboro-products are now manufactured from FSC-accredited wood
cuboro XXL, the big brother of cuboro, perfect for game festivals
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| 2007 | babel pico, smaller version of babel, made of renewable raw materials, well-priced
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| 2008 | Book «cuboro #2», 12 cuboro mastertracks, composed by Claus Gittner the «cuboro-professional»
The flowery family game «Serendipity» from Matthias Etter, published by Drei Magier/Schmidt Verlag
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| 2009 | cugolino supplementary sets «cugolino magic» and «cugolino sub», addition to the cugolino basic set and cuboro marble track system.
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| 2010 | cugolino supplementary set «cugolino hit»
cuboro book «cuboro 3» - mental exercise with cuboro. |
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Besides the cuboro and cugolino basic sets, its main products, cuboro Ltd. also distributes the Alhambra didactical puzzle, the strategy game babel (all designed by M. Etter) and Japanese high-quality glass marbles. The bloomy familiy game Serendipity is published by «Drei Magier/Schmidt Verlag». More Games as well as concepts for game-animations and schools are in process.
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