This might actually be the lamest possible start to a series - if indeed there is series potential here. Interested to know what you think - do I need to allow more time to develop the idea before committing, or do you like the one-minute design conceptualisation limit? Should I do more of these, or abandon the idea here and now?
I think a minute is good if you're having downtime and just want to do something. And if you later come up with a good idea for one of the other combinations, you can still write it down and make it. Interesting concept overall, I'd love to see more.
Again for sure. Yea an edible abacus sounds lame, but who thinks of something like that? The process has the potential to sprout out of the box ideas, some maybe bad, but maybe one is actually worth caring about.
this video may look like just novelty, but at it's heart it has a very good lesson about exercising your mind and thinking skills in a silly but fun way. just the reason i come here for
Yeah, I come from an industry background (IT) where it was constantly necessary to solve problems, often in creative or unexpected ways - I think people often think of IT as being 'restore/fix this thing that is broken', but more often, it's 'help! This thing is happening and we don't know how we will deal with it!'
@@AtomicShrimp I was just thinking this, I remembered you mentioning you where a PM in a previous vidjeo and coming from an IT background myself I thought this was a really neat idea.
Its funny, it took you less than 5 minutes to come up with a really weird, never to think of idea and made it come true. I love it! I would enjoy more.
@@AtomicShrimp You could "update" the dice to have a different bias by swapping recycled or upcycled with disposable etc. I will have to find the video to see how you chose the words.
Educational, interesting and enjoyable, it has to be a new video series. Different rules for using the dice, different dice sets, e.g. a cooking recipe or art set, or more dice pick 6 randomly out of the bag. It’s a new educational aid and creativity board game for for schools, family, and solo play of course. Almost endless ideas, totally genius imo. Can I have some more please sir.
The moment I heard "edible, office, computer" my brain immediately went to a candy abacus, so I'm glad to see you went with that roll. I also think this would be a great "starting school gift" for children (in a candy or cereal version) and as a joke gift for office co-workers (in a more salty snack type version)
Teaching young children simple math by having them build a cheerio (or whatever that sort of tiny donut-shaped cereal is called in your corner of the world) abacus sounds like an amazing lesson plan (which can be sold on sites for teachers looking for unique ideas)
This new in a series will garner many new subscribers I predict. And quite rightly as this opening video has a number of important elements. Fun, educational, practical, elements of challenge and luck, creativity, adaptability. These positive elements encapsulate your channel’s ethics solidly. I want to see more dice throws. It should become a big DRAW,
When you put the kit together your music selection took me back to watching Mr. Rogers Neighborhood when Fred would do projects or would show a film of a making process while pianist John Costa improvised over it. And even when Fred failed, or a project didn't turn out the way he thought it would, he would always talk about how that's alright, that the doing and the experience was all part of learning and you could still have fun in that. I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think this was stupid at all, I appreciate your approach to what the Invention Dice gave you and I hope you're willing to make more content like this.
As a homeschool mom, I find this to be an amazing idea! You can talk about the history of computers, abacuses, Islamic studies, ancient market places, trade from Asia to Europe, construction, following directions, and a yummy treat! I love everything about this. Thanks so much for sharing it! Enjoy your day, Wendy
Maybe using all of the dice together is a bit of a brave idea, either way I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful series. On a separate note, good choice of biscuit.
"Keep on creating things." Excellent advice that I am applying right now in my life. Excellent dice idea and video series idea. I am looking forward to more.
I want to try the dice themselves with a high-level class, kids would come up with hilarious inventions. Though they'll only be made as whiteboard drawings!
If you decide to do this again, I would recommend doing some sort of "Roll dice, discard X number of said dice". It seems too easy to get total nonsense as is, which i admit is the point, but if you could narrow it down a bit, you could get more feasible results. Further, it would allow you to brainstorm a single roll in multiple iterations/combinations of dropped/kept dice, which i would personally find more interesting than picking one total result of many rolled. Edit: I see you responded to a similar comment below, although my personal influence was tabletop roleplaying games.
I hope this becomes a recurring series! This sounds like it has the potential to be very fun. I actually have my own sort of “invention“ dice as well. They had very random illustrations on them like socks and hammers and bridges and sheep, etc. I would use them when I played dungeons and dragons and my bard had to come up with a deceptive excuse or a random song on the fly.
After each dice roll I thought "oh that's impossible, he'll have to do the next one." Yet, after a few seconds of thinking, Shrimp comes up with 3 wicked ideas. A creative, skilled and humble force of nature. What an awesome guy : )
Oh that made me smile all the way through. I hope some teachers and parents were watching and can use the idea with their kids - the process of solving a problem is such fun in its own right. I, as an oldie, would love to see more; a whole series in fact, so I look forward to more creative ‘silliness’. It’s very underrated these days!
I now have to serve you your own advice: Never stop making content :) And for the "this" part, I think we've already cover AND validated that This is part of your domain and as the Alpha Shrimp, you do as you please. This kit has everything, creativity, dexterity, culture, food groups, leftovers, recycling... the pleasure to succesfully bring to completion a project for yourself, the joy to communicate your achievement and explaining the process for others to enjoy (children have to have stimulating challenges, this is a worthy one). Yep, this process has a lot going on. I love here Sir Shrimp.
The box could be split into two sections. One with a tiny packet that just has the exact parts you need to build one abacus, and another section 100 times bigger labeled "spare parts".
Thank you so much for your encouraging words about creativity. Was experiencing disillusionment with myself and my creativity as of late, but you’ve helped me realize that it’s really just all in my head. Thank you. :)
You’re to hard on yourself, I found it fun 😅 I came for the snarky scam bates and stayed for everything else. You should make the dice a regular series.
I have similar story dice, which come as a set of nine. I never read the instructions and used to create tenuous connections with all nine of the rolled faces. Later I learned that people choose three of the nine, which offers a balance of limiting and inspiring parameters. Is this worth trying?
Found this video so enjoyable. I find creating something without purpose is also very mentally calming and stimulating. While rolling these dice and creating a story or product to match them is also very stimulating. It just feels good to create, to make something from nothing. I love these dice and I'd like to make some. I know the dollar store sells blocks this size that are blank. So I'm going to pick some up. Even to roll them and write out inventions or short stories and poems. I would love to watch more videos just like this one. I loved your spirit and that you actually went and put this kit together. It's light and silly fun while being creative and inventive problem solving. A joy for all ages to keep mentally sharp, open and young at heart.
This would be a great kit to spend time with kids. I imagine building this and use it to math homework and the reward for finishing homework is to eat their abacus haha
I would love to see more of these! It was fun trying to think of which choice I would pick and what I would make (if I could think of anything!) as well as watching what you came up with. So it’s a creative spark for views who want to play along! It was also going the extra mile to come up with the packaging for the kit!
Maybe I'm being overly serious here, but I just love this idea for the reasons you stated. This is an exercise and a very good one. I think of children with this one as people who would greatly benefit, but honestly, I think it'd be great for adults too. Both because it's a sort of exercise we don't often do, but also because it feels more silly than it is. Removing that concept that the whole thing is silly might have huge wonderful consequences. Thanks so much for the video. I came here for scam baiting, but the more I watch of your channel the more I find myself loving the many different topics and passions you share.
This would be a great project for elementary school students. My sister is a teacher and I could totally see her coming up with something like this for the kids and might even share it with her, as I think it would be a fun and fantastic activity for the kids to learn multiple subjects with one craft.
I would love to see this continued as a series, and I believe it could have potential to inspire some real world products. The brain exercise is a huge benefit too. Maybe occasionally giving yourself more time to ponder, even on a walk, could yield interesting results too~
How delightful! I may well consider adapting the concept for writing. Something like this could be quite interesting for creating characters, or world features.
Hey man, I am so glad you made another video about these dice. My son and I watched your original video with these like 2 years ago when we first discovered your scambaiting and he liked the idea so much he went out and made a set for himself and he's played with them pretty regularly since. I am very familiar with the problem of having to figure out what I can come up with that is an inhabitable edible wooden object or a manual wooden computer. I feel like we've come up with ideas for every combination but it keeps provoking thought. Anyway thanks for the idea that has given us countless hours of a fun creative intellectual exercise and please do keep making these, it is good to see someone else suffer trying to make sense out of impossible combinations.
I absolutely love this premise, and would love to see more videos like this. Sure, they can't all be winners but the exercise in creativity is half the fun!
I quite enjoyed the process from the beginning to the end. This could really be a series resulting in an invention that is quite marketable. Please continue the series.
I would love to see more invention dice videos! I really appreciate your view on the process as an exercise in problem solving and creative thinking. I'm an artist who's finding it hard to be artistic lately so this inspired me to make some art dice!
Reminds me of a friend's "everything can go in the dishwasher - some things more than once." (She has really bad neurodermatitis and can't do the dishes by hand.)
I'm sorry to be a killjoy but your Brothers' statement is patently flawed. The definition of 'Edible' is _fit or suitable to be eaten_ - therefore, if deadly then the substance or object is in fact *inedible*. Yes, I enjoy telling kids that santa isn't real.
@@trippymchippy8586 It is only flawed if his Brother was making that statement without the intent to disagree with the original definition of 'edible'.
This is absolutely amazing, I come from a creative family and this is brilliant I'm going to make some of these dice with my daughter and see what we can come up with! Perfect new idea during lockdown! Thank you! Loved the kit!
This was super fun! It reminded me of puzzles we used to do on my “odyssey of the mind” team back in school. We invented things to solve problems. It is so satisfying and you come up with fun thing when you give yourself whacky restrictions. I find working in restrictions creatively stimulating.
What a lovely coincidence! I've been watching a lot of youe videos recently and saw the exact comment suggesting this one yesterday. Can't agree more about the creativity! I've been making a lot of stuff recently and it's helped me out quite a bit.
The musician Brian Eno did something similar many years ago with cards, he printed a set of cards with different inspiring ideas that he would shuffle and see what came out. i.e. sample drums and transpose down by 1 octave and overlay etc. He said it was quite useful at various times - I love your channel and videos btw, keep up the amazing work 💯
This reminds me of Brian Eno's "Oblique Strategies”. He made a set of cards that work in a similar way to jump start the creative process in unexpected directions.
Brilliant 👏 I would love to see more of this. You seem to have just the right attitude and thought process to make this fun and yet still a little educational.
I really enjoyed the video. As a creative myself, I've done a lot of game jams (in which you make a video game in 48 hours) and it reminded me of that. I just love the process of creating and seeing you do something with tangible objects was really inspiring. I might try that out myself.
This was absolutely brilliant, one of your videos that I've enjoyed the most. Would definitely love more of these, hopefully with inventions just as (if not more) bizarre!
I love it. You could make a video about watching paint dry and it would still probably be the most entertaining and informative thing I'd see all week. I really appreciate the knowledge, passion and thoughtfulness you show in anything that you do. Cheers.
I definitely think this series would be worth continuing. At the very least, it's got me thinking about making some "game design" dice that could be used to determine a game design/coding project I could work on for a weekend, or even a month. Also, I know I wouldn't complain about getting a candy abacus for a Secret Santa!
I think this is a great game for all ages. I like the twist of three rolls and pick what you want to build -- levels the playing field, no idea too wackey, just be creative, no judgement. Back to the actual build -- I was thinking life savers hard candy or breath mints, but the rod had me stumped... then out pops "Cheerie O's" and pretzel sticks! Brilliant. (Hearkens back to my first introduction to Rube-Goldberg contraptions, taking things apart, and experimenting as a kid: chemistry sets, erector sets, rock polishers, microscopes, ... Oh the fun.)
Shrimp, I would love for you to make more videos like this. I'm definitely not a creative person, so each roll just seemed like complete nonsense to me. But hearing you explain how each was possible was possible, and then make one a reality was really interesting. Like you said, the invention may silly and inconsequential, but the process you used to make it certainly wasn't.
I was genuinely interested in this as a concept and was genuinely intrigued by your thought process and was thoroughly entertained by the potential ideas, I, for one would love to see more on this.
I really want to see this as a pass it on type challenge to a lot of different maker CZcamsrs. That would be really cool to see what different creators could make from these dice.
That would be cool. A while back I was watching William Osman with his Egg Drop Challenge series and wishing I had thought of some repeatable challenge format like that - and here it was under my nose all that time. I wonder if I can interest some of my favourite channels to collab on it...
I think the most difficult part here is to come up with an idea which is both realistic and somehow fits the description. The last combination truly threw me off!
Your creativity on this project was very impressive! I would have been completely stumped with the options those dice gave so good stuff, would love to see more!
Sure, I guess you could say instead that it's a version I came up with using very little thought. We have American equivalents of everything he used - pretzel sticks, Fruit Loops, Star Crunch
What a brilliant concept! I am totally going to adapt this idea for myself, if that's ok. I'm thinking of using them as if playing Yahtzee...three rolls, keeping the best and re-rolling the rest (is that cheating?) Anyway, I would absolutely LOVE to see more videos like this :)
This was absolutely delightful. What you said about keeping on creating things (even if they aren't super important or useful) as practice for your brain is great stuff. I would love to see more of these! It is quite interesting to watch you think and problem solve as you make the invention. ^_^ Also, if this was a real product, I would totally buy one for my mathematics major best friend. It would be a great stocking stuffer or just silly fun gift.
I love the intention behind this Its not the end result, but the thinking and thought process Working out a way to fulfil a brief Would love at some point if you do another limited budget food challenge
You should definitely do this again! It would be awesome if some sort of contest or game was held with your dice, just to see what people would create. Maybe go for a couple more rolls next time until you get a combination that automatically sparks an idea. Either that, or stick with the first roll and mull it over for a while before starting to create something. I think it could make for an awesome series of videos!
This might actually be the lamest possible start to a series - if indeed there is series potential here. Interested to know what you think - do I need to allow more time to develop the idea before committing, or do you like the one-minute design conceptualisation limit? Should I do more of these, or abandon the idea here and now?
Just do more you lovely human.
Its not as lame as it seems its a really cool concept
Abandon
I think a minute is good if you're having downtime and just want to do something. And if you later come up with a good idea for one of the other combinations, you can still write it down and make it. Interesting concept overall, I'd love to see more.
I think its a good idea, some of the combinations could be fun
The edible abacus COUNTS toward your daily nutritional intake.
It's brain food!
A return hospital trip was needed for this pun ;) :D
I think it might all just ADD UP to a stomach ache !
Again for sure. Yea an edible abacus sounds lame, but who thinks of something like that? The process has the potential to sprout out of the box ideas, some maybe bad, but maybe one is actually worth caring about.
this video may look like just novelty, but at it's heart it has a very good lesson about exercising your mind and thinking skills in a silly but fun way. just the reason i come here for
Yeah, I come from an industry background (IT) where it was constantly necessary to solve problems, often in creative or unexpected ways - I think people often think of IT as being 'restore/fix this thing that is broken', but more often, it's 'help! This thing is happening and we don't know how we will deal with it!'
@@AtomicShrimp I was just thinking this, I remembered you mentioning you where a PM in a previous vidjeo and coming from an IT background myself I thought this was a really neat idea.
This series could get really dicey.
He'll just have to roll with it.
A new series is always a gamble
Thankfully AS is a multi-faceted content creator
@@frankiestoolshed1978 But not craps.
😂
Its funny, it took you less than 5 minutes to come up with a really weird, never to think of idea and made it come true. I love it! I would enjoy more.
OK, this is brilliant: creative blocks for creative block.
XD
Creative blocks for creative blockheads?
@@JuryDutySummons creative knives for creative sacrifices
@@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766 too far buddy 😂
@@SaraL13. creative deaths for creative victims
Might be interesting to add another die in that gives you options like "reroll 1", "reroll 2" "discard 1", "discard 2", and two blank sides.
Yeah, like Uno cards - maybe including 'opposite' (so it would turn 'disposable' into 'keepsake' or something)
@@AtomicShrimp You could "update" the dice to have a different bias by swapping recycled or upcycled with disposable etc. I will have to find the video to see how you chose the words.
I think the computer option is too complicated to just build on the fly. You made it work this time but you can't make everything an abbacus.
@@Dan-ji4db watch me
@@GhostGlitch. haha challenge accepted
It was especially fun to watch for me, as a non-native English speaker, who until last moment had no idea what in the world abacus is
Same
It's a device for maths for counting
Pretty sure many native speakers ALSO aren’t sure what an abacus is
@@TinyFitnessHouston are you kidding?
@@dogwalker666 given that most CZcams views come from upper elementary aged kids? Nope 🧮
Something about pondering the responses of a hypothetical focus group while you stick a piece of wood through a kid's cereal made me laugh lol
Imagine having this guy as a granddad. Me as a kid would've have loved a lot of the things he does!
Edible computer is easy as long as you use the right kind of chips
"What kind of chip you got in there - a Dorito?"
-Weird Al
Educational, interesting and enjoyable, it has to be a new video series. Different rules for using the dice, different dice sets, e.g. a cooking recipe or art set, or more dice pick 6 randomly out of the bag. It’s a new educational aid and creativity board game for for schools, family, and solo play of course. Almost endless ideas, totally genius imo. Can I have some more please sir.
I've searched the entirety of YT, and cannot fine another "Build Your Own Edible Abacus" video. Somehow, I expected that.
I also invented the Bacon Easter Egg
@@AtomicShrimp id buy that
The moment I heard "edible, office, computer" my brain immediately went to a candy abacus, so I'm glad to see you went with that roll.
I also think this would be a great "starting school gift" for children (in a candy or cereal version) and as a joke gift for office co-workers (in a more salty snack type version)
Teaching young children simple math by having them build a cheerio (or whatever that sort of tiny donut-shaped cereal is called in your corner of the world) abacus sounds like an amazing lesson plan (which can be sold on sites for teachers looking for unique ideas)
I thought candy abacus as well👍
Honestly I kind of like it, just to have my lunch presented in an interesting fashion while I'm at my desk. Might have a go at some point.
My brain went to a computer just with the outside made of bread
The invention dice appears to also yield Wish product titles and descriptions.
I laughed out loud at "edible mini office computer" but was blown away when u actually made one
This new in a series will garner many new subscribers I predict. And quite rightly as this opening video has a number of important elements. Fun, educational, practical, elements of challenge and luck, creativity, adaptability. These positive elements encapsulate your channel’s ethics solidly. I want to see more dice throws. It should become a big DRAW,
When you put the kit together your music selection took me back to watching Mr. Rogers Neighborhood when Fred would do projects or would show a film of a making process while pianist John Costa improvised over it. And even when Fred failed, or a project didn't turn out the way he thought it would, he would always talk about how that's alright, that the doing and the experience was all part of learning and you could still have fun in that. I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think this was stupid at all, I appreciate your approach to what the Invention Dice gave you and I hope you're willing to make more content like this.
As a homeschool mom, I find this to be an amazing idea! You can talk about the history of computers, abacuses, Islamic studies, ancient market places, trade from Asia to Europe, construction, following directions, and a yummy treat! I love everything about this. Thanks so much for sharing it! Enjoy your day, Wendy
I believe it started in China, but I saw similar uses for multiple subjects. Love creative stuff like this
Maybe using all of the dice together is a bit of a brave idea, either way I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful series. On a separate note, good choice of biscuit.
Custard creams are foreshadowing another project I have in planning. Don't tell anyone!
@@AtomicShrimp only if you share the custard creams for silence 😂 stay awesome
@@AtomicShrimp 😂
"Keep on creating things." Excellent advice that I am applying right now in my life.
Excellent dice idea and video series idea. I am looking forward to more.
I love how the colours of the cereals match the colours of your table cloth
When I saw “mini, edible, computer” my brain went straight to just making a small shaped computer out of graham cracker or something
You already lowered the bar on "Stupid and futile" inventions... The Wobble Dog.
You take that back the wobble dog is the invention of the century.
I sprained something laughing at the wobble dog. Twice.
The wobble dog 9000 is the greatest invention known to humankind.
My first thoughts were a key board made out of a giant slab of dairy milk chocolate. Imagine the mess as it melted as you typed.
Why did you make me watch this? You evil, hirarious, brilliant man.
Literally planning a lesson with this for my kindergarten zoom class now
Oh how I wish I was in your class... I would have an excuse to build this
I want to try the dice themselves with a high-level class, kids would come up with hilarious inventions. Though they'll only be made as whiteboard drawings!
If you decide to do this again, I would recommend doing some sort of "Roll dice, discard X number of said dice". It seems too easy to get total nonsense as is, which i admit is the point, but if you could narrow it down a bit, you could get more feasible results. Further, it would allow you to brainstorm a single roll in multiple iterations/combinations of dropped/kept dice, which i would personally find more interesting than picking one total result of many rolled.
Edit: I see you responded to a similar comment below, although my personal influence was tabletop roleplaying games.
Please do this again, I really love stuff like this. Creating something with random components. It’s great and you did it great.
I hope this becomes a recurring series! This sounds like it has the potential to be very fun. I actually have my own sort of “invention“ dice as well. They had very random illustrations on them like socks and hammers and bridges and sheep, etc. I would use them when I played dungeons and dragons and my bard had to come up with a deceptive excuse or a random song on the fly.
Great work on the label. That font use would catch my attention in a store.
I think this concept is wildly creative and I would love to see another go at it.
After each dice roll I thought "oh that's impossible, he'll have to do the next one." Yet, after a few seconds of thinking, Shrimp comes up with 3 wicked ideas. A creative, skilled and humble force of nature. What an awesome guy : )
This is easily my favourite channel on CZcams. Thank you for all the hours of entertainment! I look forward to more in this series.
Oh that made me smile all the way through. I hope some teachers and parents were watching and can use the idea with their kids - the process of solving a problem is such fun in its own right. I, as an oldie, would love to see more; a whole series in fact, so I look forward to more creative ‘silliness’. It’s very underrated these days!
I now have to serve you your own advice: Never stop making content :) And for the "this" part, I think we've already cover AND validated that This is part of your domain and as the Alpha Shrimp, you do as you please.
This kit has everything, creativity, dexterity, culture, food groups, leftovers, recycling... the pleasure to succesfully bring to completion a project for yourself, the joy to communicate your achievement and explaining the process for others to enjoy (children have to have stimulating challenges, this is a worthy one). Yep, this process has a lot going on.
I love here Sir Shrimp.
Thank you. You have been hugely supportive to me. I am very grateful to you for that.
@@AtomicShrimp But but but... you're doing all the work O.O... much oblidged.
The box could be split into two sections. One with a tiny packet that just has the exact parts you need to build one abacus, and another section 100 times bigger labeled "spare parts".
Please do a series on this regularly its incredibly entertaining!
You are the definition of genius. Is there ANYTHING you CANT do????! I can watch you for hours. Please carry on.
Thank you so much for your encouraging words about creativity. Was experiencing disillusionment with myself and my creativity as of late, but you’ve helped me realize that it’s really just all in my head. Thank you. :)
You’re to hard on yourself, I found it fun 😅
I came for the snarky scam bates and stayed for everything else. You should make the dice a regular series.
I have similar story dice, which come as a set of nine. I never read the instructions and used to create tenuous connections with all nine of the rolled faces.
Later I learned that people choose three of the nine, which offers a balance of limiting and inspiring parameters. Is this worth trying?
Found this video so enjoyable.
I find creating something without purpose is also very mentally calming and stimulating.
While rolling these dice and creating a story or product to match them is also very stimulating.
It just feels good to create, to make something from nothing.
I love these dice and I'd like to make some. I know the dollar store sells blocks this size that are blank. So I'm going to pick some up.
Even to roll them and write out inventions or short stories and poems.
I would love to watch more videos just like this one.
I loved your spirit and that you actually went and put this kit together.
It's light and silly fun while being creative and inventive problem solving.
A joy for all ages to keep mentally sharp, open and young at heart.
This would be a great kit to spend time with kids. I imagine building this and use it to math homework and the reward for finishing homework is to eat their abacus haha
'I'm sorry I didn't finish my homework, my dog ate my computer.'
You're like the only dude who I subscribe to that isn't video game or gun related and it's super worth it for this stuff
I would love to see more of these! It was fun trying to think of which choice I would pick and what I would make (if I could think of anything!) as well as watching what you came up with. So it’s a creative spark for views who want to play along!
It was also going the extra mile to come up with the packaging for the kit!
This series is even more creative than your others, and really fun to watch. Please keep making them.
Maybe I'm being overly serious here, but I just love this idea for the reasons you stated. This is an exercise and a very good one. I think of children with this one as people who would greatly benefit, but honestly, I think it'd be great for adults too. Both because it's a sort of exercise we don't often do, but also because it feels more silly than it is. Removing that concept that the whole thing is silly might have huge wonderful consequences. Thanks so much for the video. I came here for scam baiting, but the more I watch of your channel the more I find myself loving the many different topics and passions you share.
You should mass produce and sell the dice rather than the inventions! Looking forward to more in the series!
This would be a great project for elementary school students. My sister is a teacher and I could totally see her coming up with something like this for the kids and might even share it with her, as I think it would be a fun and fantastic activity for the kids to learn multiple subjects with one craft.
I would love to see this continued as a series, and I believe it could have potential to inspire some real world products.
The brain exercise is a huge benefit too. Maybe occasionally giving yourself more time to ponder, even on a walk, could yield interesting results too~
How delightful! I may well consider adapting the concept for writing. Something like this could be quite interesting for creating characters, or world features.
Hey man, I am so glad you made another video about these dice. My son and I watched your original video with these like 2 years ago when we first discovered your scambaiting and he liked the idea so much he went out and made a set for himself and he's played with them pretty regularly since. I am very familiar with the problem of having to figure out what I can come up with that is an inhabitable edible wooden object or a manual wooden computer. I feel like we've come up with ideas for every combination but it keeps provoking thought. Anyway thanks for the idea that has given us countless hours of a fun creative intellectual exercise and please do keep making these, it is good to see someone else suffer trying to make sense out of impossible combinations.
I absolutely love this premise, and would love to see more videos like this. Sure, they can't all be winners but the exercise in creativity is half the fun!
I quite enjoyed the process from the beginning to the end. This could really be a series resulting in an invention that is quite marketable. Please continue the series.
I would love to see more invention dice videos! I really appreciate your view on the process as an exercise in problem solving and creative thinking. I'm an artist who's finding it hard to be artistic lately so this inspired me to make some art dice!
My Brothers senior quote was "Everything is Edible, somethings may just kill you."
A diamond the size of your head would be hard to take a bite out of!
Reminds me of a friend's "everything can go in the dishwasher - some things more than once." (She has really bad neurodermatitis and can't do the dishes by hand.)
@@AtomicShrimp anything is a meal if youre determined enough
I'm sorry to be a killjoy but your Brothers' statement is patently flawed. The definition of 'Edible' is _fit or suitable to be eaten_ - therefore, if deadly then the substance or object is in fact *inedible*.
Yes, I enjoy telling kids that santa isn't real.
@@trippymchippy8586 It is only flawed if his Brother was making that statement without the intent to disagree with the original definition of 'edible'.
This is absolutely amazing, I come from a creative family and this is brilliant I'm going to make some of these dice with my daughter and see what we can come up with! Perfect new idea during lockdown! Thank you! Loved the kit!
Poor Ernest.
This was super fun! It reminded me of puzzles we used to do on my “odyssey of the mind” team back in school. We invented things to solve problems. It is so satisfying and you come up with fun thing when you give yourself whacky restrictions. I find working in restrictions creatively stimulating.
What a lovely coincidence! I've been watching a lot of youe videos recently and saw the exact comment suggesting this one yesterday. Can't agree more about the creativity! I've been making a lot of stuff recently and it's helped me out quite a bit.
This video series is fantastic. PLEASE CONTINUE THIS SERIES!
It would be nice to see more of these in the future. Interesting idea.
The musician Brian Eno did something similar many years ago with cards, he printed a set of cards with different inspiring ideas that he would shuffle and see what came out. i.e. sample drums and transpose down by 1 octave and overlay etc.
He said it was quite useful at various times - I love your channel and videos btw, keep up the amazing work 💯
this HAS to be one of the most randomly interesting videos i have seen in a long while!
I would like to see more of these dice ngl
This series has potenial to be random fun
This reminds me of Brian Eno's "Oblique Strategies”.
He made a set of cards that work in a similar way to jump start the creative process in unexpected directions.
Brilliant 👏 I would love to see more of this. You seem to have just the right attitude and thought process to make this fun and yet still a little educational.
yes please do it again, it was funny
I love that you're one of the few CZcamsrs now that provide fun varied content, always fun to watch. Thankyou!
This is why I love your channel and rate it as one of the top channels on CZcams, eclectic, innovative and skillful. Down to earth too. Keep it up!
I really enjoyed the video. As a creative myself, I've done a lot of game jams (in which you make a video game in 48 hours) and it reminded me of that. I just love the process of creating and seeing you do something with tangible objects was really inspiring. I might try that out myself.
This was absolutely brilliant, one of your videos that I've enjoyed the most. Would definitely love more of these, hopefully with inventions just as (if not more) bizarre!
I love it.
You could make a video about watching paint dry and it would still probably be the most entertaining and informative thing I'd see all week. I really appreciate the knowledge, passion and thoughtfulness you show in anything that you do. Cheers.
I definitely think this series would be worth continuing. At the very least, it's got me thinking about making some "game design" dice that could be used to determine a game design/coding project I could work on for a weekend, or even a month.
Also, I know I wouldn't complain about getting a candy abacus for a Secret Santa!
I think this is a great game for all ages. I like the twist of three rolls and pick what you want to build -- levels the playing field, no idea too wackey, just be creative, no judgement. Back to the actual build -- I was thinking life savers hard candy or breath mints, but the rod had me stumped... then out pops "Cheerie O's" and pretzel sticks! Brilliant. (Hearkens back to my first introduction to Rube-Goldberg contraptions, taking things apart, and experimenting as a kid: chemistry sets, erector sets, rock polishers, microscopes, ... Oh the fun.)
Nice box design and good series! Look forward to seeing more!
If you roll dice into a plate of salt it significantly impacts the out come of the dice face at rest .
OMG Everyone already said that!
Try dropping your dice into salt water. In order to check if they are balanced.
Mmmmm something to try on a rainy day with a 6 pack of beer I think.
Interesting point. I think it needs more investigation.
I always look forward, in anticipation, to your content and this hasn’t disappointed.
Bit late to the party I know, but I LOVED this. I adore the dice and am delighted at what you came up with.
Shrimp, I would love for you to make more videos like this. I'm definitely not a creative person, so each roll just seemed like complete nonsense to me. But hearing you explain how each was possible was possible, and then make one a reality was really interesting.
Like you said, the invention may silly and inconsequential, but the process you used to make it certainly wasn't.
this was really interesting!! i would love to see more. the treadmill analogy you used was great.
Not half! The mind is a muscle, it needs to be trained and exercised.
I was genuinely interested in this as a concept and was genuinely intrigued by your thought process and was thoroughly entertained by the potential ideas, I, for one would love to see more on this.
This is gonna be amazing, i'd absolutely love this to be a series!
Absolutely do this again! It was a lot more inspirational and entertaining than I'd ever think an edible abacus could be.
I really want to see this as a pass it on type challenge to a lot of different maker CZcamsrs. That would be really cool to see what different creators could make from these dice.
Imagine what somebody with a CNC or forge would end up creating, that could be really cool
That would be cool. A while back I was watching William Osman with his Egg Drop Challenge series and wishing I had thought of some repeatable challenge format like that - and here it was under my nose all that time. I wonder if I can interest some of my favourite channels to collab on it...
I think the most difficult part here is to come up with an idea which is both realistic and somehow fits the description. The last combination truly threw me off!
I would LOVE to see a full series of this, please
Your creativity on this project was very impressive! I would have been completely stumped with the options those dice gave so good stuff, would love to see more!
Great concept mike. Don't give up on it. Keep it going at least a few more of these. I enjoyed it!
The blocks are a great idea to keep the kids busy while locked down, although they would need to be more kid friendly conceptually. Nice work!
American ingredients:
- Straight parts of candy canes (fruit flavored if you prefer)
- Gummy LifeSavers
- Rice Krispy Treats
As an aside, not all Mike's 'ingredients' are British; the sticks are from Poland.
Sure, I guess you could say instead that it's a version I came up with using very little thought. We have American equivalents of everything he used - pretzel sticks, Fruit Loops, Star Crunch
What a brilliant concept! I am totally going to adapt this idea for myself, if that's ok. I'm thinking of using them as if playing Yahtzee...three rolls, keeping the best and re-rolling the rest (is that cheating?) Anyway, I would absolutely LOVE to see more videos like this :)
This was absolutely delightful. What you said about keeping on creating things (even if they aren't super important or useful) as practice for your brain is great stuff. I would love to see more of these! It is quite interesting to watch you think and problem solve as you make the invention. ^_^
Also, if this was a real product, I would totally buy one for my mathematics major best friend. It would be a great stocking stuffer or just silly fun gift.
A grown man? I was under the impression that you were perhaps a small boy.
That was beautiful
I hope you make more of these, this is such a brilliant idea!
I love the intention behind this
Its not the end result, but the thinking and thought process
Working out a way to fulfil a brief
Would love at some point if you do another limited budget food challenge
You should definitely do this again!
It would be awesome if some sort of contest or game was held with your dice, just to see what people would create.
Maybe go for a couple more rolls next time until you get a combination that automatically sparks an idea.
Either that, or stick with the first roll and mull it over for a while before starting to create something.
I think it could make for an awesome series of videos!
I loved seeing how you figured out the solution. It's good to keep your brain active.