Tag: Geometry

When I was a kid, my grandfather kept a Tangram puzzle game on the side table in the kitchen. I played that game all the time with my uncle and cousins when they were around when I was five or six.

If M.C. Escher were still alive today, I’m betting he’d redo all of the floors in his house with these wood tiles…

I always loved playing with my Spirograph when I was a little kid. Of course, now with tablet and computer painting apps, it’s hard to imagine going back to such a simple creative plaything. But sometimes, simplicity is fun too.

Got a few boxes of coffee stirrers and some cocktail toothpicks lying around? Well save ’em for stirring some lattes, since I doubt most of us could do anything quite as impressive as this if left to our own devices.

For just a few brief moments each day, this clock looks like an ordinary cube, but most of the time it transforms to form star-like geometric patterns. The Time Cube carves off one corner of its 6-sided box to form a series of layered triangles which rotate to tell the current time.

Think those old Rubik’s Cube puzzles are just too easy for your giant brain? Well have I got a real mind-bender for you to solve. These Irregular IQ Cube puzzles might just blow your head off.