Domino Toppling at the Penn Museum

To coincide with the University of Pennsylvania's 2011-2012 academic theme, the Penn Museum presented a "Year of Games" display. On November 6th, 2011, we (Mike and Steve Perrucci) set off a domino course that incorporated several old and modern games.

This was, without a doubt, the most incredible room in which we've ever had a domino show. If you're ever in the Philadelphia area, try to visit the Penn Museum. Our video simply doesn't do it justice. Learn more at http://www.penn.museum

The older games we included and their countries of origin are: Go (China), Backgammon (Iran), Chess (India), and Mancala (Eritrea and Ethiopia). A big die is "thrown" in for good measure.

More modern games are also used, such as baseball, tennis, ice hockey, video games (it's obvious by now that we like Mario), and a prize wheel made of K'Nex.

Our tilting Go board didn't work as planned. The pieces would have slid down and spelled "GO". Also, apparently Fool's Mate isn't a checkmate...?

As always, you can visit my website to learn more about our domino toppling adventures: http://www.mazeguy.net

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[FlippyCat]

Cool

[Reesesjake]

Flippycat brought me here :)

[S4GamingHd]

HOLY!! They are great

[MrMudkipsz]

Love the GO board. I love the game, personally.

[supergab332]

Wow! That is totally amazing! How does someone of the human race could do a spectacular performance amazing like that!?? :O Sincerly, congratulation! :)

[theman1751]

flippy cat says cool...then he has 34 thumbs up....because he's famous...

[matheuskidelicia95]

muuiito bom

[TimDomino]

Once again, you demonstrate that dominoes are worth being shown at a museum... Great job :-)

[SpanishDominoFans]

Yeah! Mazeguy in the yearly event! Love the wood stones!

[sbenthem1]

Really cool project with nice decoration! I'm still like the speed of your stones. They're so slow.

[megamind991]

im sorry flippycat what happened to flippy

[MrDominoFrance]

Very nice :-D