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Okay, so here’s a silly q for the hive mind:
I have inherited a 10x10x15cm wooden box FULL of glass marbles—the old-fashioned “play marbles” kind. Aggies, swirls, ribbon swirls, cats-eyes, solids, clears, you name it.
I need creative ideas for using them. I don’t want to leave them in a box when they’re so shiny and pretty but I have no clue what to do with them.
They’re consisent in size so I assume machine-made/modern, but they’re COOL. They even SOUND neat.
When I was younger we had a circular "solitaire" board as illustrated below.
Perhaps create these boards and sell them with the marbles?
Image copied from popularwoodworking.com.
@Owen_G_Richards @kmherkes now I'm wondering if there's a more tasteful name for the game I was taught as "Chinese checkers"
@WizardOfDocs @Owen_G_Richards @kmherkes Is it a racist name or a patriotic name? Like Roman Numerals and Arabic Numerals? I dunno.
@chrisp @Owen_G_Richards @kmherkes it's American marketing for a game created in Germany, if we believe Wikipedia, so I'd say kinda racist
I have no idea, but of course... it is possible.
@Owen_G_Richards @kmherkes wiki says:it's called Stern-Halma in German, and tiàoqí in Chinese. Not seeing a better widely-accepted English name though.
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