THE BOYS' CORNER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20668, 13 September 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE BOYS' CORNER.

MAKING A MEMORY TARGET.

Here is a really scientific toy which will provide an interesting lest of your quick-wittedness and memory. Cut put a, wooden baseboard, about lOin. long and sin. wide. Mount it on four feet, so that the underside clears the table. At one end fix a target of wood or stout cardboard, and cut out the bull's-eye, making tho whole about a half-inch across.

Al the other end make five holes, largo enough for a piece of quarter-inch wooden rod to slide in easily. Cut five lengths of this rod, longer than the thickness of the baseboard. Now cut out five strips of thin tin—an old cocoa tin will do, but do not use mother's best scissors— 2J>in. long and jin. wide. Nail one end of each to one of your rods, push the rods through the holes and screw the other ends of the strips to tho under-side of the baseboard. Now take a piece of metal rod (such as a length of Meccano shaft) and fix it under and across the strips, so that when any button is depressed about an eighth of an inch tho strip will touch the rod. About 3in. from the target screw a holder to take an ordinary pocket-lamp bulb, and connect up to a pocket-lamp battery as shown. The game is to 6hoot with a peashooter, and whenever you send a pea through the hole in the target, to press the button so that you light the lamp. The winner is tho one who lights the lamp most nearly simultaneously with the pe3 going through. You have to remember not only which is the right button, bub to press the button immediately. The wire "A" 6hould be changed about from strip to strip during the game, to render this mor« difficult.