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Retro-Breakthrough 1
A magazine competition invited people to come up with "invented" inventions of the cyber-age.
For example, a solar powered clothes drier (a rope) and a hand-held word processor (a pencil). Can you guess what this is?
It is a portable arcade. A hand-held amusement resource with no cartridges or batteries. Access games of speed, dexterity, memory, cunning. Produce magical effects or construct lofty towers. Some games can increase your income.
For example, a solar powered clothes drier (a rope) and a hand-held word processor (a pencil). Can you guess what this is?
It is a portable arcade. A hand-held amusement resource with no cartridges or batteries. Access games of speed, dexterity, memory, cunning. Produce magical effects or construct lofty towers. Some games can increase your income.
Answer
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easy, but fun
tooooooooo easy
very fun. liked it. keep up th egood work
nice one.
nice..
Very nice
o i get it after i saw the answer i was like duh
Feb 22, 2005
Very cool.
Be blessed
Be blessed
pretty good. I enjoyed the fact that it shows we only need simple things!
Though very easy to figure out, it was pretty fun. Thanks!
I liked the examples better than the main puzzle. A bit too easy.
~~~~#$!YAY!$#~~~~ that was a great one
good one
Hey, second day looking on this page and I actually got it, thanks for throwing in one that was fun and easy.
Feb 22, 2005
i didnt get it....i feel so stupid
Feb 22, 2005
ahh! i just re-read and got it! lOl...nice work!
>.< Heh. I didn't get the answer right!
Feb 22, 2005
nice ...and easy! really it was a nice teaser...just extremely easy i thought the solar powered drier was harder! the pencil too! nothing derogatory here...just a comment!
Very easy, I loved it!
Very easy, I loved it!
very nice *thumb up* how is a rope solar powered?
I thought this teaser was a lot of fun.
Whoever made this was really inventive. It's the perfict riddle! Not to easy, not to hard.
Good one! I guess I wasn't reading carefully or something, because i was thinking that it was a set of legos!!
hey tat was easy. lol great on tho
Keep these up, I like them.
Wanna Play?
LOVED it! Great job! Going into my faves!
Darn, I thought it was the lottery .It was good though
That was great. Keep it up.
You got me on that one. Yes u r thebest!
Goodun...at first I was thinking blocks...then dice, but cards made more sense.
Fun and easy -- I actually got this one. Easy is a good thing when I'm feeling stupid over not being able to figure out so many of the others. It's a good thing to be successful once in a while. Keep them coming!
My first thought
was the mouse in my hand LOL
was the mouse in my hand LOL
nice one mate!
Duh! I should have gotten this one.My bad. Great teaser, bring on some more.
Cute, very cute. I thought it might be `Lego` but it is early & the brain is not quite in gear!! LOL
Let`s have more of these please
Let`s have more of these please
Some people just have a way with words. Thanks.
Got it, got it got it.Yeah!!
I thought that this was brilliant... Well done
Excellent. Thanks
Cool! Good job.
Very Clever!!! A round of Poker anyone???
not bad.... a little too easy
Way to use your head!
love this, right to my faves
nice...
This one was a bit easy. I think if you had reversed the deck of cards with the clotes dryer one it would have been a bit harder
that was very cute .
P.S. check messages .you know who you are !!!!!!
P.S. check messages .you know who you are !!!!!!
I was thinking Monopoly for a minute but then when cards came to mind it was obvious ..
Good teaser. I didnt get it at first though. I was thinking a pad of paper...dont know where I got that from. After I re-read it I got it right.
Yeah - my comment makes it a full deck.....pretty easy but fun.
this one was fun i liked it
Next time I play cards, I'll have to try that tower building part. First, get some glue......
nice job
the answer was embedded in my head after losing money in poker... ahh well, at least i got the easer right!
I should have gotten it with tower thing but I guess I wasn't paying much attention... It was really a really nice teaser though!
real easy, but pretty good
Fun Got it right away. I like to play alot of cards
Splendid!
One of the best teasers!!! I'm gonna add this one to my favorites. I needed that laugh, thanx
Thanks for a good one. Took me a while to stack the deck in my favor to pull down the correct points. Hey Besa, welcome back. Missed you. Both of you keep up the good work.
I like this one!!! I didn't get it, but when I read the answer it was like a brick hit me! DUH!!!
WOOHOO! AMAZING! INCREDIBLE! LOVED IT! DEFINETLEY GOES ON MY FAVS.........
except.... i didn't get it
except.... i didn't get it
Yay. ^___^
I didn't get it but nice!! It makes since now ...But im half asleep...There's my excuse......
Ok, I'll give it to you. The deck of cards was a good one.
Keep them coming, Love!!!!
Keep them coming, Love!!!!
Yah, yah- good! I like!
*thumbs up*
You know this is probably the best teaser iv ever read!!! great stuff!!
That was very easy, but really cute!!
very easy but i play poker for fun chips online all the time ..so i got it pretty quick.
Quite easy one, but it is a quite awesome teaser! Bring on some more like this one!
I liked this one a lot, very cute! I hope to see a lot more like it!
Okay, I feel rather dumb after reading all the other comments! You see, I didn't get the correct answer. I guessed our MINDS or BRAINS.
Very good teaser. How about a sequel and including more questions in the same teaser. Perhaps 4 or 5.
Very good teaser. How about a sequel and including more questions in the same teaser. Perhaps 4 or 5.
I just realized that our minds would not be "hand-held"! Oops again.
well written, but on the easy side...
I didn't think it was easy till I saw the answer. Guess my backache is affecating my brain this morning. Good teaser! I'm going to put it into my favorites.
Got it, got it got it (again)
good one!
Really fun and enjjoyable even though I didn't get it.This is defintely going on my faves!!!Keep up the good work!!
Fun one, and so true. I was brought up playing cards and making puzzles on the dining room table. Still love both. Thanks for a good teaser.
This one definetly made me smile. "invented inventions". haha.. perhaps someone could write more like this but a little bit more complex. This calls for perception from a complex BRAINGLE!!
Clever
I got this before I was even done reading it! Fun teaser.
Invented Inventions Very nice idea, and the explanation was crisp and clear, although i thought it was a bit too easy. I'd love to see more!
cool teaser but a bit too easy for my taste.
cool :-) i thought it was fun but easy :-p
EASY SEEMS REDUNDANT, BUT IT WAS, I HAVE SEEN/HEARD THIS BEFORE; ELSEWHERE.
Well, either that was real easy or I'm smarter than I thought !! I loved it, way cool!!
It's okay scallio, I thought brain too, despite it not being hand-held (ew!)
ohhh i thought it was a car well you got me there! great teaser!
got it right! that was a clever one!
fun teaser but also makes an interesting point
Anyone for a game of poker? Pretty easy.
Easy but fun! Good job!
easy, but cool. I would have liked it better, though, if there were a few of them (like the 2 in the instructions).
Finally figured it out. Good one.
I loved it!
I got it because I love to do magic tricks!
I got it because I love to do magic tricks!
Nice one! I hop to see lots more in the Retro-Breakthrough series.
Good one! Thanks for posting!
Easy but enjoyable
All hands on deck
Knew answer in less than 52 seconds.
Got it. But my first thought was Braingle.
I guessed PSP or DS until I saw that it said no batteries XP
I didn't get it. Monoply came to mind then I cancelled that one thought. Just cards didn't come to mind and I have played plenty of cards games in my lifetime. Thought it was a very good quiz even though I didn't get it.
Easy, but still fun!
Fun and entertaining teaser. Enjoyed this very clever teaser even though I did not get it.
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