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ExchangeArchive-Lucky-G13-024-1.jpg
A dissection puzzle involving the characters G413. Exact puzzle to be determined...

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This pair of unique dice consists of a 13-sided die with both numbers and face-card labels for J, Q, K, and A, along with a 4-sided die with the standard playing card suits.

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Physical physics toy gift for the exchange: A craft kit with all parts needed to crate a tiny kinetic sculpture based on the physics of equilibrium, magnetic force, and angular momentum.

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A small booklet of 20 math puzzles that involve the element of surprise. Some appear to lack sufficient information to solve; others run counter to one's intuition as to what the answer should be.

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There are 52 cards in a standard deck of playing cards: four suits of 13 cards each. To design a deck of cards, one needs to establish the four suits, each with its own symbol and/or concept, and find a logic for generating the 13 cards in each suit,…

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Unofficial logo designed for G4G13

ExchangeArchive-PonyRubiks-G13-069-1.jpg
My Little Pony, 2x2, Rubiks Cube

ExchangeArchive-Lights&Spheres-G13-050-1.jpg
A 7cm green plastic sphere with a surface of conical projections, otherwise known as a Cando Massage Ball.

Titanium LED keychain flashlights: I will ship 200 with white LED, 100 with red, blue and green LEDs. Each attendee will receive one light…

ExchangeArchive-Cavalieri-G13-048-1.jpg
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…

ExchangeArchive-PatternStacker-G13-064-1.jpg
An abstract spatial thinking pattern puzzle

ExchangeArchive-Celt-G14-066-1.jpg
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.

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Text by: David G. Haskell,
Illustrations by: Ellen Litwiller

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Physical gift a small E link puzzle and a puzzle postcard.
Paper 'Multiplication by Superposition' - PuzzleAtomic.com

ExchangeArchive-SliceOfSpace-G14-033-1.jpg
Amina Allen took a close look at the stellated dodecahedron inside an icosahedron, and found 10 squashed cubes, each with six rhombic faces that are all "fat" Richert-Penrose tiles. Has no one ever noticed before? Even Marc Pelletier never mentioned…

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This mechanism demonstrates a surprising way to generate an ellipse by using a four-bar linkage. The shape of the ellipse can be defined by the path the intersection point of the two crossing bars follows. This fact is analogous to another neat way…

ExchangeArchive-Klein-G14-017-1.jpg
3D printed klein bottle

ExchangeArchive-BlockRoll-G14-003-1.jpg
This is a rolling block puzzle. Roll the block from the start location to the end location. Avoid the obstacles in your path, and don't roll the block over its beveled edge. It will take some decaflops to get to the finish!

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A 3D-printed copy of the 5th-level (i.e., 1024 tetrahedrons) approximation of the Sierpinski Tetrahedron.
Please enjoy the beautiful shadows under sunshine.
In particular, this object has projections with positive measure and the shadow contains an…

ExchangeArchive-14Bridge-G14-021-1.jpg
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.

ExchangeArchive-Tetradecahedra-G14-034-1.jpg
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…

ExchangeArchive-Pencil-G14-037-1.jpg
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.

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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…

https://www.gathering4gardner.org/g4g14gift/ExchangeArchive-Egg-G14-002-1.jpg
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.

https://www.gathering4gardner.org/g4g14gift/ExchangeArchive-PipDice-G14-006-1.jpg
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…

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https://www.gathering4gardner.org/g4g14gift/ExchangeArchive-ZomeStruts-G14-007-1.jpg
3D printed custom Zometool struts, and a Zometool ball.
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