Hello Bloggineers. Welcome back to another episode of Look Who's Quarantined.
Today we're going to show you Turing Tumble, a new type of game where you build mechanical computers
powered by marbles to solve logic puzzles.
You learn coding by using bits, gears, screws and interceptors.
If you like what you see, you can purchase this product and the link in the description.
So this game is for ages 8 and up. You can play it with the single player or with multiple people.
And inside we'll show you in a bit.
This game has won numerous awards including the Dice Tower Seal of Excellence.
And on the back, they list the contents of everything, and also they show you how this thing works.
So step one is choose a puzzle. Step two is plan your approach.
Step three is build a computer. And step four is start the computer.
This box is big!
It's time to unbox the game.
There is the board.
This is the board.
It's kind of like a pachinko board.
Pachinko is a Japanese pinball machine where you just press the lever down and a ball will shoot it out and come down the tracks.
So this reminds me somewhat of it.
This is...
okay there's two sticks here. We can come back to this.
The green ones are ramps. The orange ones are crossovers. the bits are the blue ones.
I don't know what those are.
And there's an interceptor which is the black thing.
The black thing isn't here.
Oh here!
Okay these are the gears and gear bits.
So I guess these are what rotate the balls?
Ok, and here is the puzzle book.
And comic book.
Comic book?
Oh, it's because the back has artwork that's like Japanese anime.
So I guess if that thing is like Japanese pinball machine pachinko, this is Japanese anime.
There's kind of a Japanese theme.
Here's the puzzle book. Oh yeah there is a comics inside.
There's assembly instructions.
And then after all this. And the comic...
How to play. Number one: each challenge has an objective you must create a machine that completes the objective.
To start the machine, you must press the start button down once.
Oh, that was number two.
Number three: once the machine is in motion you cannot touch the machine or otherwise interfere with its operation.
Number four: your machine cannot let balls drop freely for any distance.
The ball cannot just like drop down. It has to do slowly make its way down.
Okay, number five: challenges start easy but they become exceedingly difficult
even for a seasoned deep-space telecommunications engineer.
If you get stuck take a break and come back to the puzzle later.
All right, and then this is challenge one.
Starting from here.
Apparently in the beginning it's easy, and then the farther it goes the harder it goes.
Puzzle solutions are on the back.
It goes all the way to challenge...
Okay the last challenge is 60, so there's 60 challenges.
On each challenge, there's gonna be a number of stars in the right-hand corner.
And that's the difficulty.
The most difficult one which is number 60 has...how many stars?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven stars.
And the first one only has a half a star.
Now we're going to assemble the machine, and we'll show you some puzzles.
We've finished assembling the mechanical computer. So it took us about 10 minutes.
And then there's the storage. I like how the bits and gears fit neatly inside.
We finished setting up challenge one. It's called Gravity, and the difficulty is half a star out of seven .
And the required output is for the eight blue balls to reach the bottom. But only the blue balls, not the red.
We started off with six in the setup, and there's four more that we need to figure out where to put.
But before we do that, I'm going to show you how this thing runs if we didn't have the correct challenge.
Just to give you a general idea.
Ok! So, it did exactly what the objective goal was.
However, one of the rules in the rulebook says that it's not allowed to just drop down.
Which means that when it came here to here and there here it wasn't supposed to just drop down like that.
It's not allowed to.
It has to follow a ramp with no steep drops.
All right now we're going to solve it. So we have four to work with.
This is going to come down here, and this is going to come down here, then this is gonna come down here.
And it's going to drop, so we need something. Somewhere here.
Okay. Then this comes down here. All right another problem here.
So now it's gonna coming down like this. And the last one you cannot drop, so...
We're gonna press the "push to start" button.
I will!
This was fast.
There's eight balls here with no red.
All right, time for challenge two called Reentry. It's also the difficulty half a star out of seven.
It's the same objective to have eight balls at the end but no red balls.
And this time instead of four, there's five available green ramps to use.
We're going to press the start button for challenge two.
One more time.
And it's over.
This is challenge five. It's called Entropy, and the difficulty is one star out of seven.
The objective this time is to get blue, red, blue, red, blue, red, blue, red, and so on and so forth.
A new element is introduced in this puzzle which is the crossover.
And what the crossover is, is if a red ball came from this side, it's gonna cross over to this side.
And blue ball that comes here is going to cross over to this side.
So they cross over, kind of like making an X.
Basically it has to end up at the crossover. So maybe like that? This and this?
So that it can crossover and do its thing.
All right. And then red.
Ok then blue.
We're going to play some more off-camera, and we'll come back with our final thoughts.
So we just played Turing Tumble some more.
And in addition to the ramp and the crossover that we mentioned, there's four more aspects of the game.
One of them is the bit, which means that when a marble comes down into meets the bit,
it'll go either left or right, and it will alternate from going left and right.
There's also the gear and gear bit, which flip each other.
And the Interceptor which stops the marble computer from running .
We solved some official puzzles from the rulebook, but we also like to do it in free style play, where we just make our own maze.
And it's fun because you can experiment with the marble computer and make your own patterns.
Overall, I think Turning Tumble is a very fun and educational game because you can watch the marbles run down your own computer.
And you can even learn coding from building a marble maze.
My favorite part is building the marble maze and watch it marbles go down.
You can purchase Turing Temple in the link in the description, and we'll see you in the next video.
Bye.