An articulated brass coil is a number written in place value. Shear off the glowing number — crack a link open when the ones run short — and the machine performs the arithmetic in front of you.
The pack suggests age 6 and up. The difficulty itself follows the player, not the age.

THE COIL OF NINETY-SIX draws its questions from these parts of the curriculum. Which of them a player sees, and how hard the questions are, follows the player.