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There is power in calm. But sometimes the calm lies in things that are rather restless in themselves: the swinging of a pendulum, the roaring of th...

Mods more real than reality annoy you and excitement doesn't mean completing the 300th side quest for you? Maybe your internet connection is just l...

Jigsaw puzzles are a double-edged sword: if you manage to put the 300, 500 or even over 1000 pieces together correctly, you can be happy to have do...

This game is probably not for the full-grown programmers of this world, but certainly something for their children or for pupils who are allowed to...

Pirates and pastafarians finally have the opportunity to set up a shrine to the sacred Flying Spaghetti Monster. Unlike other deities that cannot b...

Claiming to know "Star Wars" inside out is a pretty bold statement, as the Skywalker saga comprises three trilogies. There are 42 years between the...

What do clichéd doughnut cops, Clint Eastwood and swashbuckling cowboys have in common? That's right, they all have a revolver dangling more or les...

There are several technically gifted tinkerers in the Star Wars saga. Both Anakin and Luke are very successful at tinkering with droids and podrace...

The terrifying, mysterious nightshade that terrorizes the village of Berk in the film "Dragon Taming Made Easy" soon turns out to be an incredibly ...

How many clawed fingers did a T-Rex have? What is remarkable about the brain size of a Stegosaurus? How many letters does the dinosaur with the lon...

Anyone who still thinks of colorful plastic slides when they hear the word "marble run" is not necessarily wrong - but not quite right either. Beca...

What didn't work the first time will certainly work the second time. Or the third. Maybe you can help the Empire to rebuild the Death Star. Unfortu...

"The Lord of the Rings is essentially about a gentleman and at least two rings."You wouldn't expect a sentence like this these days, even if you ha...

Through adversity to the stars! What was true for the ancient Romans definitely does not apply to the Star Cube magic cube. Because if you want to ...

"Te invoco a profundus inferni!"Oh, what good times those used to be: Instead of sitting at your smartphone or in front of the TV, you sat together...

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.George Bernard ShawWho would know this better than the gamers among ...

Circuit boards, capacitors, batteries, LEDs, and the like - anyone who lives for electronics with body and soul could bathe in these things. Unfort...

Great plush figures don't just fall from the sky - but magical princesses do, at least in the movie "The Castle in the Sky". And in Laputa, the pla...

Contrary to Luke's fears, the Millennium Falcon is anything but "just junk". In fact, behind the façade of the dilapidated YT-1300 freighter lies o...

It's exam time in Snape's dark dungeon. You sit in your seat as quiet as a mouse so as not to attract the attention of the grim potions teacher. Sw...

In recent decades, technology has changed faster than ever before. Sometimes our still stone-age brains just can't keep up. We're all familiar with...

Even though we have access to our digital calendars almost around the clock thanks to our smartphones, a "real" calendar still looks good on the de...

Dice play a major role in pen & paper. They decide the fate of your character like nothing else. Not even the Game Master has power over them. With...

If anyone knows how to sleep, it's the Great Old One Cthulhu, who has been snoozing away in R'lyeh for eons, waiting to finally bring the world und...

If you stand at an ordinary bus stop on an ordinary day, then an ordinary bus will come. That changes as soon as a strange forest spirit appears: W...

Battery-operated watches are definitely more practical in everyday life than their mechanical counterparts - you have to admit that without envy. H...

Cluedo? Sure, everyone knows it. After all, the board game that turns players into detectives of the caliber of Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot i...

It's a fact that everyone likes bubbles. As soon as we see them, they bring a smile to our faces and probably inevitably remind us of carefree mome...

Vampires have always fascinated people. They are dangerous, bloodthirsty, undead and, with a little goodwill, perhaps even attractive in a dark way...

The invention of the telescope was quite groundbreaking in the history of mankind. Actually invented by the Dutch optician Hans Lipperhey in 1608, ...

Chemistry is one of the most unpopular school subjects of all, yet this natural science is one of the most exciting. No other subject involves so m...

Cluedo has been a huge success since it first appeared at the end of the 1940s and is still very popular today. No wonder, because it is a game wit...

When we think back to the 80s, 90s or 00s, we sometimes long for that time so much that we are on the verge of finally building ourselves a time ma...

In the form of a white wolf, the sun goddess Amaterasu wanders through the magical world of the video game "Okami" and frees the people of Nippon f...

Letting highly explosive material near you doesn't sound particularly tempting at first. But don't worry, this bomb is completely harmless. The Bom...

Everyone knows the game Memory. But how well do you know the different NASA missions? With NASA Space Mission Memory, you can put your good memory ...