BUTTON HOLE PUZZLE
Remove the stick and string from the oversized button hole. Looks simple, right? But this puzzles simplicity is what makes this puzzle so intriguing. You got to try it!
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Related exhibit: Great Escape Puzzles
Design by Exhibiteers Inc.
Client: Technorama Science Centre, Winterthur, Switzerland
Graphic design by Technorama Science Centre
GREAT ESCAPE PUZZLESThe Great Escapes are a set of puzzles based on a branch of mathematics known as 'Topology' which deals with how things are connected. The puzzle pieces look interlocked but in fact they are not, and it is possible for them to come apart in some fashion.
There are twelve different puzzles in the set ranging in difficulty levels from moderately challenging to very difficult and each set comes with instructions and solutions. The puzzles are engaging, pleasant to handle, extremely robust to withstand continuous use in science center and museum environments.
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Related exhibit: Button Hole Puzzle
Designed and built by Exhibiteers Inc.
HARMONOGRAPH
Visitors create an endless variety of patterns by varying the pendulum starting conditions and by lowering and raising the pen at will.
Our Harmonograph design, a first for museums and science centers, finally provides a safe way for visitors to directly interact with two heavy pendulums.
The visual experience is truly mesmerizing.
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Watch: Harmonograph Video
Designed and built by Exhibiteers Inc.
Client: Science World, Vancouver, British Columbia