Basketball
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| s****i (29 ) | 40.00 | 06/09/2012 02:39:31 |
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Description
Basketball is a mechanical maze, based on a mechanical concept by Mark White. Through Ed Pegg's www.mathpuzzle.com page, Oskar found Mark White's CodeWorld game, see http://www.codefun.com/CodeW.htm. Mark had discovered that four pins placed in a tetrahedral fashion could smoothly slide through dodecahedrally placed grooves in a sphere. Mark used his mechanical concept for a sort-of a combinatorial game. Mark even developed some well-working prototypes. Unfortunately, after consulting several distributors, he found that the game would be too expensive for mass production.
This maze uses the same notion and has a set of tetrahedral pins follow a dodecahedral maze in such a fashion that the basketball moves through the set of pins to the bottom of the basket. Again, this is a puzzle which would be difficult to produce any way other than by a 3D printer.
You can view a picture of the puzzle here: http://www.puzzlepalace.com/#puzzle=200409
Specifications
- Designer
- Oskar van Deventer
- Craftsman / Manufacturer
- George Miller
- Material
- 3-D Printing
- Unit of Measurement
- Inches
- Size
- 2.5 x 2.5 x 4
- Grade
- -
- Cosmetic Issues
- -
- Function
- Average
- Functional Issues
- -
- Repairs
- -
- Packaging
- -
- Documentation
- -
- Assembly
- -
- Smoke-free home
- -
Payments & Returns
- Payment Methods
- Check or Money Order
Postage & Shipping
- Item Location
- 10022-8023, New York, United States
- Ships To
- United States
- Shipping Instructions
- -
- Returns Accepted
- No