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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…
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…
Magic Pizza Guy
Solve these puzzles and get a pass to the Magic Castle.
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…
Leaping Crossword No. 2
A one-page puzzle with attached solution will be provided, including the instructions for this variant and the clues and grid.
Jerry Slocum Mechanical Puzzle Collection Trihexaflexagon
The item I would like to submit for the G4G14 Gift exchange is a copy of a give-away puzzle, developed by the IU Libraries, to advertise the Jerry Slocum Mechanical Puzzle Collection. This promotional item features a trihexaflexagon and informational…
I AM THE RHOMBUS
In one package: the strip of triangles and brochure for this new flexagon. The colorfully illustrated brochure will include folding directions, flexing directions, and images of the different possible faces.
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.
Hand of Art Stickers
Two removeable vinyl stickers of the artist's hand.
Guess-o-matic
This DIY paper-engineered magic trick performs an astonishing feat of mentalism thanks to a bit of secret mathematics.
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.
On account of…
On account of…
Golomb Rulers
A perfect ruler for daily use. In mathematics, a Golomb ruler is a set of marks at integer positions along a ruler such that no two pairs of marks are the same distance apart.
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…
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.
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.
Entropy
Sudoku with some added rules. This puzzle can only be solved in conjunction with the gift "Palindromes" by Elizabeth Gallagher.
Custom Zometool Struts
3D printed custom Zometool struts, and a Zometool ball.
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…
Conway's Game of Life
Conway’s Game of Life needs no introduction to fans of Martin Gardner. Numerous examples exist in which a GoL “spaceship” object sends out smaller objects (“gliders”, etc.) that move away from the generator at a constant speed. That speed is set by…
C.L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) Oxford Mathematician
Lewis Carroll, the nom de plume of the Rev. Charles L. Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Oxford, was also an innovator in recreational mathematics, magic, puzzles, cryptography, and inventions. His appearances in Scientific American began with…
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.
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.
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.
Abstract Photograph - Acura TL
One of my interests is abstract photography, using ordinary photographs as the “paint” and using spatial and mathematical transformations to create an image from one or more sources. One transformation that I’ve been exploring is “Inside Out”, which…
A Torus Without Diagonals
Cut-and-fold a polyhedron with 7 vertices, 14 faces, 21 edges, and a hole through it like a doughnut. A cube has internal diagonals that connect the diametrically opposite corners. By contrast, this polyhedron has no internal diagonals. There are…