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Give Mom a challenge for Mother’s Day

This double-sided puzzle is a great gift for people who love Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture, jigsaw puzzles, or who just love a challenge.  The puzzle features a photo of Wright’s Fallingwater as it soars over the waterfall on one side and the building’s blueprint on the other side.  To help make it a little easier to sort the pieces before assembling, the photo side has a glossy finish, while the blueprint side is matte.

The 500-piece puzzle is 20-inches square when completed.  It’s made of cardboard and paper, and it’s suitable for ages 13+.  The Frank Lloyd Wright Double-Sided Puzzle is only $16.00 at UncommonGoods.

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Give Mom a challenge for Mother’s Day originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on May 3, 2018 at 9:00 am.

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Here’s a miniature chess set that fits in your wallet

What do you do when you fancy a game of chess, but don’t have a chess set in your gear bag? Check your wallet instead. That’s right, the Innovo chess set is so tiny that you can store the whole thing right in the credit card slot of your wallet. It’s a 3D printed set from Shapeways that’s been designed like a pegboard.

The blue nylon chess board breaks away from the chess pieces which “plug” into the board. Although all the pieces are the same color, you can differentiate between your pieces and your opponent’s by the hole in the center of some pieces.

It’s definitely a cool idea, but there are some major issues. First of all, what do you do with all the tiny chess pieces when you’re finished with your game and want to store the set back in your wallet? You’ll need some type of container for the pieces. But even more of a problem is the tiny size of the pieces themselves. It looks like it would be really hard to move the pieces around on the board without a tweezer!

The Innovo 3D printed chess set is only $12 from Shapeways if you want to check one out. Or you could just download a chess app for your phone and call it a day.

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Celebrating the life and humor of Stephen Hawking – see the Quantum Chess showdown with Paul Rudd

Stephen Hawking, a renowned theoretical physicist, and well-known author passed away on March 14, 2018. He may have been one of the more famous and brilliant scientists of our time, but isn’t it wonderful to know that he had a fabulous sense of humor? It makes him a bit more human to the rest of us.

I thought it would be nice to celebrate him and his humor by sharing a video released two years ago of the epic Quantum Chess match between him and Ant Man‘s Paul Rudd. The video is narrated by Keanu Reeves and directed by Alex Winter (from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure). Whether you are seeing it for the first time or this is your umpteenth time, it is thoroughly entertaining.

Quantum Chess is a real game and was created by Chris Cantwell, a University of Southern California graduate student. He created a Kickstarter campaign back in early 2016 to help get Quantum Chess out to the public to encourage people everywhere that “anyone can quantum”. Read his story here. You can find out more about Quantum Chess and get early access to the game ($9.99) by clicking on this link.

There also appears to be a couple of other Quantum Chess games available through Apple’s App Store and Google Play, just in case you want to check them out…

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The Oregon Trail Handheld Game brings you dysentery on-the-go

The Oregon Trail handheld game

It’s an 80’s classroom nostalgia trip in a pocket-sized package! In this handheld version of the classic Oregon Trail, hunt for food, trade with settlers and ford dangerous rivers as you attempt the 19th-century trek from Missouri to Oregon’s lush Willamette Valley.

This game was a treat to play in elementary school, though I think the only thing I learned from it was that I was glad to be shooting at pixelated buffalo instead of contracting cholera in the back of a covered wagon. Playing Oregon Trail is literally all this thing can do, but it might be a fun gift to pick up for a fan of the original game or to inflict digital snakebites, broken limbs and diseases on a new generation.

The game features all the required buttons to make decisions and hunt for food, as well as authentic 80’s sound and graphics. The description on Target’s website lists the difficulty of this game as “easy,” but if memory serves me, I only remember actually finishing this game a handful of times, so your mileage may vary, literally.

You can pick up the Handheld Oregon Trail game exclusively at Target, in-store or online for $25.

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Playing cards for your EDC

Air Deck is a set of playing cards that have been created with travelers in mind. The 3.43 x 1.26 inch deck of cards is around half the size of a traditional deck of cards and is made of waterproof PVC so you don’t have to worry about spilling a beverage on them during a heated match of Slap Jack. 

The cards are designed to last for years of card game fun and are tear, scratch, and bend resistant. They are sized just right for a quick game of Rummy on an airplane tray table, or a game of Euchre on the beach.

Air Deck was a successfully funded Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and now these casino quality cards are available to everyone. You can read more about them and order a pack for $10.71 from Amazon.

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