Originally published at: Push pop fidget toys are the new spinners | Boing Boing
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28 popples? so close to a decent calendar, yet so february
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Funny. I saw this for sale in a local board game shop, but it was marketed as a two-player strategy game. It was basically the matchstick game (last one to pick up a match loses), but with some additional rule about only being able to “pop” bubbles in one row. I can’t readily find anyone selling it that way now online.
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Never heard of this until my 12-year-old asked for one last week. Now they are everywhere (even on unlinked/non-tracked devices).
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These round ones are exactly the same objects as the game Last Mouse Lost (which I assume is what @HorsePunchkid saw. Perhaps the game wasn’t selling too well, and they offloaded a bunch of stock, only to find a new market?
https://specialneedstoys.com/usa/tactile/last-mouse-lost.html
Yes, the game is just Nim. My 4- and 7-year-olds almost have the strategy, and can beat their friends, but I can still beat them…
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i’m not sure i’ve seen this exact one before but i have seem somewhat similar designs. I like these kinds of tactile objects, not sure i would want to buy one though. I’d likely mess with it for 5 minutes and never use it again 
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Co-marketing opportunity with the Pringles brand…
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where oh where is the Rubik’s cube of push pop…
Hm. At 28 bits per disk, it’s pretty low density as a computational storage medium.
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well YOU can just tell my sponsor why I’m BACK IN REHAB
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But that’s enough to make a computer, right?
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The problem with any fidget toy is that it’s too deliberate or planned. If you’re a fidgeter a big part of doing what you’re doing is the randomness of picking up something and fidgeting – any small object that’s within reach. Most fidgeting is unconscious, at least for ADHDers. All my life I’ve been told to “stop that”, completely unaware that I was, for instance, playing with the light switch on the table lamp.
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Nim? That game was computerized in the 60’s.
The Unbeatable Game from the 60s: Dr NIM
[Stand-up Maths]
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