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In my childhood, our reference for paper planes was Capt. Barnaby's classic: http://www.jumpjet.info/Offbeat-Internet/More/Misc/How_To_Ma...
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I went through 2 physical copies cutting out all the patterns to make the various planes.
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Haha. It wasn't my game and it was called "The Stick". Played outdoor, between two teams who face each other on the opposite sides of a small playing field. In the middle there is a stick stuck into the ground. The players are assigned various numbers. In each round a moderator announces a predicate such as "even numbers" or "factors of three primes" or "sum of digits is a power of two" etc. The players who satisfy t…
That traitor game looks, feels and smells like a cult brainwashing tactic.
- https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37111/battlestar-galacti...
- https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9220/saboteur
There are also some D&D campaigns that work in the same way (and unlike in the board games the heroes don't know that there might be traitors among them).
In fourth grade we had a paper airplane contest, but they had a restriction on the design: a circle about the size of a quarter was on the page, and no fold or crease could go through the circle. The circle was located a few inches above the exact center of the paper. Anyway I made a "dart", and just offset the angle a little to avoid the circle. It was good, and most of the competition was incredibly bad. And a few…
Sounds like an Aerobie? The inventor, when it was a new things years ago, submitted it to a Paper Airplane contest. The contests disqualified him because it was not an "Airplane". He argued A) It s made of paper (Cardboard from a Pizza Box), B) it flew (for very long distances), therefore it is a Paper Airplane. QED From experience I can tell you that A) They are attracted to trees, B) They swim like bricks (lost my…
While they'r not in the foldable category, the paper plane designs of Yasuaki Ninomiya are pretty incredible, though apparently no longer produced commercially. https://bluegrassroots.ninja/whitewings
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This was the YouTube video where I think the person makes the same design as the one I remember: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t2sozrof3HY
That is absolutely amazing and for anyone glossing over this link unsure if you will bother checking it out I highly recommend checking it out. 2 minute video. So cool the ending. I know what I am doing tomorrow.
My interest in science started when a friend and I folded a few paper planes, tested them over a small downhill section outside my house, made notes about what worked, tweaked and experimented with new designs, and so on. It blew my little mind that with structured experimentation you could design things that actually got better with each generation. Where would the improvements stop? With hindsight, I realise that m…
Was it this [1] program? [1] https://archive.org/details/thegpa
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Link?
This was the YouTube video where I think the person makes the same design as the one I remember: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t2sozrof3HY
In fourth grade we had a paper airplane contest, but they had a restriction on the design: a circle about the size of a quarter was on the page, and no fold or crease could go through the circle. The circle was located a few inches above the exact center of the paper. Anyway I made a "dart", and just offset the angle a little to avoid the circle. It was good, and most of the competition was incredibly bad. And a few…
that really sounds like the kind of thing a person might get stuck with through out their days in school. did this stick around for awhile, or was it mercifully a short lived thing?
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That traitor game looks, feels and smells like a cult brainwashing tactic.
Are BSG or Saboteur cult brainwashing tactics? - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37111/battlestar-galacti... - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9220/saboteur There are also some D&D campaigns that work in the same way (and unlike in the board games the heroes don't know that there might be traitors among them).
The analogy would be appropriate if BSG was a competitive space fleet management game and some players decide in advance to make it a meta-game to join and sabotage each fleet without telling anyone of their intentions, leaving everyone else playing the ”fake” game while they at the end reveal the ”real” game and that whoever lost the real game actually won and vice versa.
Happy to answer any questions.