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Skylight Area
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Meet puzzle collectors and designers,
and make a puzzle to take home!
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Saturday & Sunday
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10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Meet puzzle collectors and play with some of their puzzles.
Presenters include Stan Isaacs, Harry & Claire Nelson, Peter Rasmussen, and Wei Zhang.
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10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Play
Sudoku
5x5
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Puzzle Master Scott Kim has created a new, 3D version of
Sudoku
called
Sudoku
5x5. For this weekend only, we have a large version of it on our museum floor, which offers puzzles for beginners, intermediate, and expert solvers.
Practice this game online!
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11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Make a Puzzle
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Our Explainers will show you how to make a simple puzzle to take home based on Wei Zhang’s book
Exploring Math Through Puzzles
,
published by Key Curriculum Press.
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IFI - classroom
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Live
Sudoku
Tournament
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Saturday and Sunday
(Note: these are two separate competitions!)
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Test your
Sudoku
savvy in our Live
Sudoku
Tournament, or just watch the finalists compete. We’ll give away an
Exploratorium Family Membership
and other cool goodies to the first prize winner of each day’s competition. Second through fourth place will also win Exploratorium Prizes.
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Registration begins at 10:00 a.m. outside the IFI Classroom.
Sign up early: space is limited to 90 people per day!
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Tournament Schedule:
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10 a.m.
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Registration Begins
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11:30 -11:50 a.m.
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Round 1, Group A
(limit 30) in IFI Classroom
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12:00-12:20 p.m.
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Round 1, Group B
(limit 30) in IFI Classroom
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12:30-12:50 p.m.
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Round 1, Group C
(limit 30) in IFI Classroom
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1:15-1:30 p.m.
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Semifinal I
in Webcast Studio
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1:45-2:00 p.m.
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Semifinal II
in Webcast Studio
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2:15-2:45 p.m.
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Finals
(top 2 finishers from each group) in Webcast Studio
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3:00 p.m.
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Announce winners
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TI Classroom
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Strategy Lab
Your chance to play with more than a dozen of
ThinkFun’s
most popular games.
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Saturday and Sunday
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Noon-4 p.m.
Make a puzzle with George Miller!
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For the bargain price of 50 cents, puzzle inventor and prototyper George Miller will help you make a foam puzzle to take home!
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To see more puzzles, check out George’s website:
www.puzzlepalace.com
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McBean Theatre
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Join us for a series of informative and interactive
presentations about puzzles.
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Saturday
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11 a.m.
Workshop: Introduction to
Sudoku
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If you’ve never tried
Sudoku
before, this is the workshop for you! Join Lori Lambertson from the Exploratorium's Teacher's Institute to learn what the excitement is all about as we solve some simple
Sudoku
Puzzles together.
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1 p.m.
Special Presentation: Classical Chinese Puzzles: Wisdom and Art
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In this illustrated talk, presenters Wei Zhang and Peter Rasmussen will feature beautifully crafted antique Chinese puzzles, including tangrams, Chinese rings, sliding block puzzles, secret opening boxes, multi-step locks, and puzzle vessels. After the talk the audience will have an opportunity to play with and solve modern versions of some of the puzzles.
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3:30 p.m.
Interactive Workshop: "Polyhedra on a Shoestring".
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Join dancer/choreographer, and DeAnza College Math teacher Karl Schaffer to explore 2- and 3-dimensional geometry with loops of string in this interactive workshop. We'll make stars, cubes, pyramids, and other geometrical forms as well as some traditional string figures from around the world.
www.mathdance.org
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Sunday
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11 a.m.
Special Presentation: The Science of
Sudoku
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Puzzlemaster
Scott Kim
will discuss the history of
Sudoku
, explore related topics in science and mathematics, and present an interactive session where he will teach people to solve and invent
Sudoku
puzzles.
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1 p.m.
Special Presentation: Games and Puzzles that Foster Critical Thinking
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Come share in the fun of playing games and solving puzzles that foster good reasoning skills. Join educator Michael Serra to explore arithmetic skill building games, a dozen variations on Tic-Tac-Toe, the games of Hex and Racetrack, and the puzzles Lunar Lockout and Bagels.
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2:30 p.m.
Presention with Lee Krasnow:
Precision Woodworking Techniques for Interlocking Puzzles
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In this 30-minute talk, puzzlemaker Lee Krasnow will briefly discuss all of the steps involved in the manufacturing processes that he uses to make the world's most precisely built interlocking puzzles. This talk is geared for the general hobbyist woodworker rather than somebody who is already involved in puzzlemaking. Lee will be showing pictures, diagrams and videos of his machinery in action.
www.leekrasnow.com
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3:30 p.m.
Special Presentation: How to Invent Puzzles
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In this interactive presentation, Scott Kim will lead the audience through the process of developing a crossword puzzle and a 5x5
Sudoku
puzzle. He’ll also take visitors inside his process of developing puzzles for
Discover
magazine by brainstorming and sketching out a special Exploratorium-themed puzzle.
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