A falling weight that throws a pellet past the speed of sound, a complete Windows machine inside a walnut, a landscape painted backwards through a hole the width of a pencil, and a board game that takes ten people fifteen hundred hours. Read each of those numbers a second time — that is the whole appeal.
A medieval siege engine producing a very small sonic boom
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Hollow out the shell, fit an IPS display in the lid, boot XP
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Every stroke applied backwards, through a hole the width of a pencil
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1,500 hours, ten players, and a rule about boiling pasta
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