Tips and Tricks #23
Posted by Catarino,
Hey guys and girls, Tiago here ready to take you on a trip down memory lane! Or at least for me, all of these builds take me back to playing games in my childhood!
A different kind of tips from the usual stuff but I do hope you enjoy them nonetheless!
I really hope you all enjoyed these articles over the past few months, but unfortunately this is the last one! I need to focus my time on other projects and I no longer do daily builds which in turn, makes weekly articles impossible to write.
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Thank you Huw/Brickset for sharing my work, and thank you all for the lovely and supportive feedback I've always read in the comment section!
Please don't forget to "Build something fun today!" :)
Tic-tac-toe
Today this special series starts with a classic everyone has played before I'm sure!
Funny how as a kid I did not realise there was a way to always win, you just need to think a bit ahead!
LEGO 4x4 round plates with holes and 3x3 cross plates make for the perfect elements to save some paper and pencil to play!
Rubik’s Cube
I have a few real cubes at home but never was I able to finish one without looking at a guide.
There are systems for it and I just didn’t have the time to memorise them all. But now, after a considerable effort of engineering trying to figure out this build I made a semi-working cube that I can solve in just a few seconds like the pros do with the real ones!
It doesn’t turn in all axes but still makes me proud of having done it, and from a distance, it can fool people into thinking it’s a real cube, and not made out of LEGO bricks
Connect 4
Another game from my childhood that always helped to kill some time when I wasn’t fighting with my sister and was able to get her to play.
This version is not perfect as I didn’t have the parts to make the disks all smooth. Because of that there aren’t holes on both sides for players to play face to face like the real thing. But still cool hopefully!
And after you’re done playing there’s a release mechanism for you to start a new game real quick!
Was this article enjoyable or is it minifig scale themed things all the way with you guys?
Let us know in the comments and, Build Something Fun Today!
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Thanks so much for these articles Tiago, they've been very inspiring!
I love how all of these are playable (even if the Rubik's cube isn't entirely so)!
I also love the use of the purple 1x1x2 SNOT bricks in the Rubik's cube, just because they came from 70825 :) You could've easily gone with red, or light grey, but you just had some of those purple ones lying around, eh?
Thank you again Huw/Brickset! Really hope everybody enjoyed these over the last couple of months!
Now it's time for new projects! :)
Thanks for sharing all your builds and may your next endeavours be fruitful!
Thank you for sharing these fantastic ideas and builds with us!
To answer Tiago's question I did enjoy this article (always interesting to learn about the different possibilities to build with LEGO pieces), but I have to say minifig scale is definitely my favorite :)
This is one of my favorite series, too bad is coming to an end, I'll miss it. I will continue following through social media, thank you for sharing your wonderful designs!
Thanks a lot for the articles!
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Many thanks for these weekly treats Tiago. They’ll be sorely missed by many people here I’m sure. Good luck with your future projects and I hope we hear from you again at some point in the future. Leg godt!
Great builds again - I’d love to see what you can build incorporating the dice from the board games. I have quite a few that I don’t want to get rid of but can’t think of a use for despite having studs on all 6 faces. (More usable once the rubber’s removed but is that then a legit Lego piece?)
Does anyone remember LEGO Games? Would be fun if they brought that back with more "classic" board games like this. They're still doing LEGO board games with things like Ninjago: Master of the Mountain, but there's still so much more to do!
23 weekly articles is pretty darn impressive! Thank you for sharing with us
I love these series of articles from you, Tiago!
Thanks so much Tiago! I've really enjoyed seeing the builds you've shown us!
I kind of figured this was one of the better additions to Brickset lately. Sorry to see it end.
I love your building ideas, and have learned a great deal from your builds, so thank you for that!
The fact that the that connect 4 is fully playable offers an additional ‘Wow’ factor.
I couldn’t understand why you chose not to make the upright middle slider section an open grid on both sets so both players can have the same view of the game while sitting opposite each other? Were your pieces getting stuck while playing? Was it ‘racking’ on you, (or not staying square for you like an accordion?)I used the 2x2 corner brick pieces (2x2 but missing one 1x1?) to keep mine square.
All the same, it’s a killer idea!
Cheers!
Those are fantastic builds. Thank you again, I look forward to seeing these articles every week, I absolutely love them.
I worked in a game and toy shop, for 7 years. You know the most popular games? "Uno" and "Cluedo". Maybe Monopoly and Scrabble are statistically more-popular, but every school holidays, the two games we would always sell out of fastest were Cluedo and Uno. Rubik's cubes were always pretty popular as well.
I played around with tic-tac-toe forced outcomes as a kid. If I got first move, I figured out a way to have a 50/50 chance of being able to win or being able to force a tie. Turns out, if two players know all the tricks, and neither player makes a mistake, they will result in ties every single time. If you want to move past a never-ending string of ties, you can upgrade to a 3x3x3 cube, but there are just too few potential outcomes on a flat 3x3 board, so they've been thoroughly studied and strategized.
A huge thank you to Tiago for these great articles and all the excellent builds he has shared.
I’ll miss these regular tips & tricks, but Wish you the best on your new projects.
Amazing.... Thank you!
Tiago, I'm going to miss these posts! My kids and I love your videos to help make our Lego world all the richer. We're building the working garage door this weekend! We will continue to follow you on YouTube :)
Speaking of Rubic's Cubes, I'm amazed by those Technic/Mindstorms contraptions that manage to solve real Rubic's Cubes in a few seconds.
Interesting builds even though not all of them are 100% working. Could see these as possible future ideas sets.
@AustinPowers:
As I understand it, there are 3-4 basic moves, and all you have to do is learn how to do them and you can solve any standard Rubik's Cube. How fast you can do it depends on how well you've learned those moves, and how quickly you can process what moves need to be done. A computer doesn't need to learn the moves because they can just be programmed actions, and given a basic set of circumstances to deal with, even a very basic computer can process circles around the human brain. At that point, it all comes down to how capable the creator was when building the machine and coding it, and how fast can the motors actually do the physical component.