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Flippe Top
This document describes how I designed a new kind of top, which flips not just once, but over and over. I call it a "flippe top". It can be made either from wood or by 3D printing.
G4G14 Exchange Gift (Martin Gardner Magic Trick)
We, on behalf of ThinkFun, would like to submit a physical gift based on a personal letter sent from Martin Gardner to one of our founders, Bill Ritchie, in 1994. We will submit photocopies of the letter, which describes how to perform the magic…
14-sided and Skew 8-sided Dice
A fair 14-sided die in the form of a heptagonal trapezohedron and a fair 8-sided die ("Skew d8") in the form of a triangular dihedron.
Great Questions for Great Conversations
COVID sometimes gives in unexpected ways. Had G4G14 had taken place March 25 - 29, 2020, my exchange gift would have been a packet of four cards with StoryCorps® Great Questions for Great Conversations and a fifth card with a puzzle.
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Octaroller
BUILD your OCTAROLLER ! from 3 parts square.
RACE your OCTAROLLER ! down the ramp in a straight line.
CHEER your OCTAROLLER ! with supplied cheering pom pom on a toothpick.
Octaroller is included in Geometric Foundations of Design: Old and New…
RACE your OCTAROLLER ! down the ramp in a straight line.
CHEER your OCTAROLLER ! with supplied cheering pom pom on a toothpick.
Octaroller is included in Geometric Foundations of Design: Old and New…
Warped-Grid Jig-Saw Puzzle
With a laser-cutter, it is easy to make one-of-a-kind jigsaw puzzles. The question then is what pattern of cuts to use. Here is a gallery of some experiments I have been making in which the cut pattern is based on a warped grid. A pseudorandom…
Akio's Dahlia Star Translucent
I invented the Fibonacci Turbine in an origami way. The wing itself functions as a rotating shaft. The structure is so simple that it is robust. It can be used for many engineering applications.
Polarizing Puzzle
Two rectangular sheets that filter light according to polarization- with a twist. Rotating the two sheets ninety degrees with respect to each other results in all light blocked as expected, but flipping over a sheet also gives a similar result. Does…
Troxes
Like Origami meets Lego. No scissors, tape, or glue. This modular paper cutout is based on triangular geometry and mates with neighbors (edge-connecting) to create tetrahedra, octohedra, and icosahedra. The resulting polyhedra can then mate once…
Hand of Art Stickers
Two removeable vinyl stickers of the artist's hand.
Peace Angel Maze Card
Full color original art maze card of an Angel seeking peace.
Veternary - Magic Trick
An animal based who-is-who in which with the right three questions any animal becomes uniquely identified using a ternary "sieve". For the first 16 animals this also works in binary.
Zebra Stripe Card
Zebra stripe IBM binary card.
A G4G14 Puzzle
This is a paper ring with a number puzzle. The hint is actually the logo that is at the beginning (which of course will be right after the end when it's a ring).
Cube-it Puzzle
9 loose square wafers of plastic with a hole in the center of all but one that has a cylindrical pin. It is clear that the wafers can be stacked on the pin. 7 of the wafers have notches of various size in the edges. There are no hints included. Each…
Shibori Dyed Hankerchiefs
In anticipation of G4G14, I undertook the mathematical art project of using itajime shibori to dye hundreds of handkerchiefs so that each participant could receive a unique such handkerchief in his or her gift bag. The handkerchiefs represent six of…
Free the Pearl
Applying the planar puzzle mechanism of the Magic Disc puzzle to a three-dimensional form yields an interesting and challenging coordinate motion puzzle.
Custom Zometool Struts
3D printed custom Zometool struts, and a Zometool ball.
Losing Friends with Non-transitive Pip Dice
A pair of standard, pipped, six-sided dice has had its pips painted in three colors. When you roll one of them and count pips of two of the colors, on average, white beats red, red beats blue, and blue beats white. However, when you roll both dice…
Big Knot Variation
Burr puzzle designed by Oskar van Deventer (used with permission). For G4G14, this 14-piece puzzle felt appropriate. Contrary to the name of the puzzle, these exchange puzzles are in fact rather small.
How to Put This Design on an Egg
I have made a full-color, two-sided instruction sheet on how to draw the attached design on an egg, along with a laminated picture of one of my eggs that has adhesive on the back to become a sticker.
The Martian Mayor Problem
The Martian Mayor Problem looks at designing square modular networks which create Euclidean distances between modules. The catch is that there are a limited number of tunnels (connections) between modules. This is a mostly open problem as far as I…
Puzzlehunt Pencil
This novelty pencil includes the alphabet, numbers 1-26, and other curiosities that might be useful when working through puzzles or creating and cracking codes.
Modular Space-Filling Tetradecahedra
This Gift Exchange item will consist of four flat pre-cut polyethylene sheets that can be assembled to produce two truncated octahedra with connectors for interlocking into the space-filling arrangement of copies of this polyhedron. Multiple…
Build 14 Bridges
The puzzle is strongly related to the number 14.
The trick is based on a pythagorean triple.
The size of the puzzle is about 10cmx10cmx2.5cm, and it is made by MDF.
Goal: Put all bridges on the board.
The trick is based on a pythagorean triple.
The size of the puzzle is about 10cmx10cmx2.5cm, and it is made by MDF.
Goal: Put all bridges on the board.