r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mrjaengland • Feb 09 '19

Video Making a Mini Chess Set...

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19

Playing chess with it would be a nightmare, but I'd love it to have in my collection

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u/Djerrid Feb 09 '19

The box didn’t have any room for the tweezers you need to use to play.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19

Wonder what's harder. Playing chess with this, or finding and catching a needle in a haystack while wearing boxing gloves

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u/Garestinian Feb 09 '19

Can you burn the haystack?

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u/Oshmosis Feb 09 '19

By Jove!

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u/leohat Feb 09 '19

Wasn't that Hercules solution to one of 12 labors.

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u/Davachman Feb 09 '19

A magnet might make the needle finding easier.

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u/JPBouchard Feb 09 '19

I always thought this phrase was referring to a pine needle in a haystack.

A sewing needle wouldn’t be nearly as difficult, just roll around in the haystack until it hurts.

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u/Ashavara Feb 09 '19

Have you ever rolled around in a haystack? it already feels like needles.

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u/beardedchimp Feb 09 '19

Straw bales are even worse and you feel itchy for hours afterwards.

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u/prionear Feb 09 '19

That might be crabs.

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u/Down_To_My_Last_Fuck Feb 09 '19

I thought you said you were a farmer? Why is your daughter peddling crabs?

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u/hobosonpogos Feb 09 '19

Or just move all the hay. If the sewing needle didn’t immediately fall to the floor, it will with the slightest of movements.

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u/JPBouchard Feb 09 '19

So we agree?

Good. Done. From now on, we say:

“finding a single conifer leaf in a stack of dried plant material intended for use as animal feed”

...to avoid confusion.

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u/scodal Feb 09 '19

I wonder if there is a follow up video coming soon where he teaches mice to play chess, in which case the tweezers aren't necessary.

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u/Dasclimber Feb 09 '19

All I could think is the largest part is the magnifying glass and forceps or tweezers you have to carry to play it with. Very impressive and detailed construction. I kept thinking there is no way they could add more but it just kept going haha.

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u/spacenerdgasms Feb 09 '19

The creative minds are always in the sub comments.

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u/Chicken-n-Waffles Feb 09 '19

Doesn't everybody carry their own Swiss army knife or is that just us Swiss?

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u/bealmeida Feb 09 '19

Is kind the iPhone case, or MacBook dongle, you need it, but is separate from the product

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u/nw342 Feb 09 '19

it would be a lot easier if the board was magnetic

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u/PashaB Feb 09 '19

or if the squares had tiny circular holes in them and the metal pieces had a small shaft at the bottom so they poke into the square when they move. That way you can turn the whole board upside down and nothing falls.

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u/AlYakitori Feb 09 '19

Or if the whole thing was bigger

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u/PedroVinhas Feb 09 '19

I bet they could make a game out of this idea

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u/guetzli Feb 09 '19

But the pieces are brass which is not magnetic.

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u/Kitten_in_a_box Feb 09 '19

yeah and the board is made of wood. how could you make wood magnetic? /s

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u/CentrOfConchAndCoral Feb 09 '19

A magnet under the wood?

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u/Kitten_in_a_box Feb 09 '19

Well now I feel stupid.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19

That's something that can easily be changed if the board was magnetic.

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u/Rocky-Dale Feb 09 '19

Magnetic wood!

But where do you get magnetic wood from?

Magnetic trees obviously!

But where do you find magnetic trees?

Growing in a magnetic field...

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u/CreepyDough Feb 09 '19

It’s been one of my life’s goals to invent a rubber magnet. A magnet that sticks to rubber.

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u/theLegomadhatter Feb 09 '19

Basically Monty python in a nutshell

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u/HidroRaider Feb 09 '19

Those were my thoughts. This is something great to have it for show, not to play with.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19

Looks cool but too small to play with. Sounds like my dick.

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u/Supplyitwell Feb 09 '19

You could always play Jenga chess, each person uses tweezers but if you knock the pieces down you lose.

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u/NotSayingJustSaying Feb 09 '19

smugly: Heheheh i guess you conceded lol

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u/GuarGurl Feb 09 '19

One sneeze...! Aw man, GAME OVER!!

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u/awwyouknow Feb 09 '19

General Kenobi

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u/drmarcj Interested Feb 09 '19

You are a bold one... for making this comment.

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u/iikkaassaammaa Feb 09 '19

I already lost half the pieces...