TRIDIMENSIONAL PUZZLE

THREE-DIMENSIONAL PUZZLE

THREE-DIMENSIONAL PUZZLE

WORKING PROPOSAL

Design + construct a simple game that improves mental + manual albilities. The materials availible in the classroom will be blocks of pine wood with the dimensions of 20x20mm.

Look for information:

List every game that you know that can help to improve your mental and manual abilities. Eliminate games off the list that do not comply to these conditions.

Looks in books, magazines or in real games and describe the rules of the game that you have found.

Drawing the pieces together.

Draw the pieces of the puzzle in perspective and the simple pieces.

Detailed drawing.

There are only three distinct pieces.

LIST OF MATERIALS:

-Strips of pine wood with the dimensions 20x20mm and a length of 568mm.

-Carpenters glue.

-Water color paint

CALCULATE:

6x20mm + 6x40mm + 3x60mm + 2mmx14 spaces of leeway.

LIST OF TOOLS:

-Pencil

-Set square

-Tenon saw

-Miter box

-Ruler

-Measuring tape-

-Rasp

-Sandpaper

-Paint brushes

BUILDING PROCESS

Draw on the strips of pine wood every piece using the ruler and the carpenter´s square.

Leave, at least 2 milimeters including final lines to avoid mistakes with the measurement.

·      CUTTING: Use the tennon saw with the miter box.

·      FILING: Use a rasp a file to obtain a suitable piece.

·      FINISHING: Use a sand paper in order to get the final pieces.

·      CHECKING: Check the measurement using a ruler and a carpenter´s square.

·      JOINING: Join the pieces acording to your previous drawing.

·      CHECKING: Check the measurement with a ruler, a carpenter´s square and the drawings.

·      PAINTING: Paint the pieces using the water colours and brushes.

BRISCOLA

Briscola, one of Italy's most popular games together with Scopa and Tressete, and a little-changed descendant of Brusquembille, the ancestor of Briscan and Bezique,is a Mediterranean trick-tacking card game for two to six players played with a standard Italian 40-card deck. Apart from the Northern Mediterranean, the game is also popular in Puerto Rico. Relative to the Dutch game, where players need to follow suit, briscola rules allow any card to be played. This makes the game more unpredictable, as trump cards cannot be easily neutralized and may be played strategically at any point in time. The game can also be played with a modern Anglo-French deck, without the eight, nine and ten cards.With three or six players, twos are removed from the deck to ensure the number of cards in the deck is a multiple of the number of players; a single two for three players and all four twos for six players. The four- and six-player versions of the game are played as a partnership game of two teams, with players seated such that every player is adjacent to two opponents.

TABOO

A taboo is a vehement prohibition of an action based on the belief that such behavior is either too sacred or too accursed for ordinary individuals to undertake. Such prohibitions are present in virtually all societies. The word has been somewhat expanded in the social sciences to strong prohibitions relating to any area of human activity or custom that is sacred or forbidden based on moral judgment and religious beliefs "Breaking a taboo" is usually considered objectionable by society in general, not merely a subset of a culture.