Campus board
by Wolfgang Güllich
A plain vertical board fitted with wooden rails and tilted more or less. Wolfgang Güllich invented it in 1988 for a single reason.
Photo: Akira Kamikura (CC BY 2.0)
Humans have played since prehistoric times. Some board games are among the oldest known leisure objects. Modern sports wrote down their rules mostly in the 19th century. They then spread around the whole world. Games say a lot about the societies that invented them.
A few cards of the album
The start of their anecdote. The album's other cards are for you to discover in the game.
Ferris wheel
by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.
The organisers of the Chicago exposition wanted a monument that would outdo the Eiffel Tower. A bridge builder from Pittsburgh answered with a wheel from which visitors could see the whole exposition.
Photo: Bbb-Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Flexagon
by Arthur Harold Stone
A folded paper hexagon that hides other faces when it is unfolded along the same creases. The trihexaflexagon is made of nine equilateral triangles and has three different faces. Its construction is inspired by the Möbius strip.
Photo: Anna Frodesiak (CC0)
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