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Golden Magic
My artwork, 'Golden Magic', especially created for G4G13 conference is dedicated to four remarkable men: Martin Gardner, Raymond M. Smullyan, Tom Rogers, and Al Seckel. Rich in golden mean proportions the composition consists of 13 elements placed…
The Tax Man Problem
Bill Gosper shared this problem with me. He calls it the Tax Man Problem. In the province of Peculia Pecunia, you are paid on an annular basis. That is, you get a (unit radius) gold disk from whose center is punched a smaller disk which you donate to…
The Shifting Maze
A maze on a flexagon, where the faces keep getting rearranged, adding an additional challenge to finding your way through the maze.
The Spikey Sculpture Kit
Assemble a paper sculpture of the Wolfram logo, affectionately known as "The Spikey".
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.
Sudoku Ripeto and Custom Sudoku Books
Sudoku Ripeto and Custom Sudoku are the first Sudoku variants with repeated numbers and letters (please visit www.customsudoku.com). As such, they require new solving tricks and techniques.
I am glad to offer an assortment of books featuring…
I am glad to offer an assortment of books featuring…
The Book of Why Postcard
This item is a postcard announcing The Book of Why, by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie, a book to be published in May 2018 by Basic Books. This book confronts the hoary old adage, "Correlation is not causation," which has been taught to generations of…
Sam Loyd Puzzles You Have Not Seen
In 1909, the Lyon Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY, published a small advertising booklet for Mexican Mustang Liniment. The booklet contained sixteen Sam Loyd puzzles, most signed with Loyd’s name. Most of the puzzles were duplicates or redrawn…
Puzzle Stickers
My contribution to the gift exchange is stickers hiding clues leading to a mathematical treasure hunt I'm hosting across my blog and a few other spots on the internet. I also have a physical prize for the first person to reach the end.
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…
A Gift of the Number 13 for G4G13
Participants will receive one spruce cone along with instructions on how to read the number 13 in it.
G4G13 Puzzle Cube
Three linked square bands with the G4G13 logo printed on some faces. Arrange the bands to form a cube with a logo on all 6 faces.
Does the Barber Shave Himself?
Bookmark with philosophiocal logic puzzle.
Urabe-Pattern
I was surprised at M.C. Escher’s exhibition in 1982 and hoped to create a tiling pattern by myself. But I worried about creating everyday, and time was gone without any one pattern during 2 months. When I watched Escher’s sketch book, I found thinner…
Exploding Kittens - First Edition Game
Exploding Kittens is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players draw cards until someone draws an Exploding Kitten, at which point they explode, they are dead, and they are out of the game. UNLESS that player has a Defuse…
The X-Y Chart
My gift exchange item is called an X-Y Chart. It is a very unique chart of multiplication facts for elementary school students. My friend, Joe Speier, who was concerned about children learning their multiplication facts designed the chart. During a…
Global Maps - Past and Future
Two Lenticular cards from Germany - one shows Pangea the last supercontinent 300 million years ago, and the second card shows the map of the globe in the next Heat Age when all the ice melts. This may result in a net gain in land!
Multimodular Origami: A Truncated Icosahedron
This document contains original diagrams and instructions for making a truncated icosahedron (Buckyball) using hexagon and hexagon/pentagon strip modules designed by the author.
The Real Rubik's: A Visual Puzzle
My submission is an image featuring six cubes that all look like scrambled Rubik's cubes. But only one is. The other five all have some error impossible to find on a traditional cube. Can you suss out which it is and thereby find The Real Rubik's?
13 Sided and Suits Dice
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.
Chinese Tangram
It combines a deck of playing cards, tangram puzzle illustration, folk games (Chinese zodiac) in one set.