Candy Land Extreme

Candy Land Extreme is a home-made variation on the rules of Candy Land that makes games go faster (hooray!) and adds game balance. Ever notice the unfairness of "draw the pink ice cream and automatically win"? Has your three-year-old cried when drawing the gumdrop just before winning? No more.

SETUP:

1. Shuffle and deal 4 cards per player.

TAKE TURNS:

1. Draw TWO cards into your hand.

2. You may play one OR MORE cards of the same color by placing them face up on the table.

3a. Any opponent may "zap you out" by playing a single card of the same color.
OR
3b. Any opponent may play a pink card. It becomes their turn, and they now own the face-up pile of cards. You may not play pink on a zapped-out pile.

4. You may "zap yourself back in" by playing one or more cards of the same color - return to step 3.

5. If you are "zapped out" do not move. If you are "zapped in" then move the total dots on ALL cards played. But never more than nine cards may be combined in this way.

6. Discard all the played cards into a discard pile.

PINK CARDS

* Pink cards must be played one at a time, and may not be zapped out.
* Instead of moving to the picture on the pink card, move to the NEXT pink square.
* Pink cards may not win - the final square does not include the color pink.

Will's Inventions

Dad, I've got an invention. Its a new surgery where you take out the middle of bones to make yourself lighter so that you're one step closer to flight. After 60 years old or older. My hypothesis is that one has already made all the blood cells one needs by that age, and they will not run out before you naturally die of age.

Dad, I'm going to blow so hard that I flip over in the air. And when you blow so hard that you flip over in the air you're blowing while you're falling. I bet a lot of people have thought of that idea. Or maybe not.

Floating vehicles

So it occurred to me that, if you had micro-control over the surface of a plane's wing you could dynamically shape it to be optimal for all speeds.

That idea isn't new. But that kind of dynamic control is interesting. What if you had a set of narrow alloy tubes jetting out air at the bottom of a car, just a millimeter from the ground. Sensors on all sides would dynamically model the ground below the car and 'remember' it as the car moved along. The tubes would adjust their altitude, keeping the car on a cushion of air.

The idea is that the vehicle doesn't have tires at all. It floats of a cushion of air. But not a great big clumsy one like a hovercraft. Instead, huge numbers of microjets, perhaps in clusters of 50 to 200, would be positioned where the wheels currently go, constantly adjusting to be super-close to the ground, expelling air and keeping the vehicle floating just above the ground.

Possible?