Woodworker extraordinaire [Matthais] was approached by a toy company to create a ‘marble run’ toy. [Matthais]’ jig-building skills are beyond reproach, so whipping up a prototype for this toy was ...

I’ve taken up the hobby of designing and constructing marble runs, which are made of long interconnecting tracks. Straight lines, gentle inclines, and tubes are kiddy stuff. A track isn’t worth ...

The fans are tense and cheering, the competition narrows as players who have worked and trained their whole lives for this see victory right in front of them, many overcoming hardship and injuries to ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...

Man, I wish my dad would make a track for a series of 1″ marbles to zoom around my room and I’m 32. A father recorded video of his marble track in action. The wooden track is not quite a perpetual ...

If you were particularly good at playing Mouse Trap as a child, marble runs might be for you. But instead of trapping a fake mouse, industrious marble fanatics construct elaborate mazes to send ...

In the fever dream that was my youth, I was enamored with an odd sketch on Sesame Street featuring a ball that goes up and down a long, windy track before ending up as a pile of powder. This sequence ...