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Antimatter Mazes
You are trapped in a maze with antimatter! Your goal is to escape the maze without creating an enormous explosion.
Balance of Power
Arrange the three pieces to create a figure with an axis of symmetry.
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.
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.
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…
Catalan Solid Net for further play
The included piece will be a decorated deltoidal icositetrahedron net, which can be colored and subsequently cut and assembled. Alternatively, those with a cutting machine can cut the closed regions on each face of the polyhedron to obtain an…
Cause to Wonder
A lighting fast calculation trick- good for the not brilliant to seem brilliant and the youngster to be motivated to mentally calculate. It will be printed on paper and I will bring it with me.
Cavalieri Content Cups
Just as 13 breaks up nicely as the sum of 8 and 5, so too does the (volume of a) cylinder break up nicely as the sum of a cone and hemisphere, a fact we have seen demonstrated at previous Gatherings in vivid ways. But the one-diagram proof of this…
Celt Decision Maker
This wobbly spinner also called a "rattleback" features a physics defying unpredictability. Which makes it perfect for equally unsure decision making. Includes one 3¾" long rattle back and one 4½" wide decision disc.
Chinese Tangram
It combines a deck of playing cards, tangram puzzle illustration, folk games (Chinese zodiac) in one set.
Chiral Icosahedral Hinge Elastegrity’s Geometry of Motion
The Chiral Icosahedral Hinge Elastegrity resulted from a Bauhaus paper folding exercise, that asks material and structure to dictate form. The key new object obtained in 1982 involved cutting slits into folded pieces of paper and weaving them into 8…
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…
Crocheting Hyperbolic Regular Octagon and Pair of Pants
Giving a little history and step by step instructions on how to crochet regular hyperbolic octagon with 45-degree angles.