Who could possibly resist the cuddly Arctic Narwhal? The narwhal is an arctic-dwelling whale that’s been called ‘the unicorn of the sea’ due to its long pointed tusk.
He makes for an adorable cubicle accessory where you can alternatively set him up to impale a baby koala, baby seal (of course), or a baby penguin. Comes with 4 magic tusks (crystal, onyx, ruby, and ice).
I consider this one of my must-have games, but it’s not what I would call a party favorite. It tends to be slow, quiet, and intense, and generally appeals to analytical and technical types, though I’ve found that the best competitions comes from the creative types. Better spacial reasoning, pattern recognition, and maybe intuition, I expect.
Each card in the SET deck contains one of three symbols (squiggles, diamonds, ovals) in varying numbers (up to three), colors (purple, green, red), and degrees of shading. At the same time, players try to create sets of three cards by creating various patterns or anti-patterns. Patterns must share a characteristic, and anti-patterns can’t share any characteristics. Three patterns, three anti-patterns, or a combination of three pattern(s) plus anti-pattern(s) is required to create a set.
First one to recognize the set shouts it, points it out, then collects the points.
It’s actually easier than it sounds, and there are two levels of difficulty. You can remove one of the decks to start with, which leaves fewer set possibilities. One or two quick runs through the deck, and you’ll have it.
If you’ve ever thought about hacking RFID, here’s a neat little starter kit. I wasn’t sold on a kit for quite some time. I figured that there must be a way to get only the widgets I wanted without having to buy a complete kit, when you know you’re only going to get about a third of the things you need anyway.
Hours of searching and a few months later, and I purchased a kit. Why? Because trying to piece your own package together is very. . .cost prohibitive. Yikes. So I got the kit and was done with it.
This kit comes with the RFID Toys book, which lists some neat little projects that you can tackle to get acquainted with RFID. Hours of hacking fun!
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There are kits available from Trossen Electronics and Think Geek. Same kit, just check availability before you order. Also check out Parallax for some neat kits (I hesitate to post a deep url — you’ll see why when you visit their site — but just got to Education | Educational Kits).
