Make: Volume 91

experimentation. There’s a saying about dialing

in the failure ratio just right so that people are

excited to play, but not guaranteeing success so

much as to be pointless. It’s a trick that makers

of slot machines and successful mobile games

know. And it’s something to shoot for in a good

kit. Does it have multiple ways to put it together?

Does it have multiple bad ways to put it together?

Does it have ways that sort of work and are sort

of interesting that no adult would ever think of?

Lego again is great at this, but so are MakeBlock,

UBTech, and others that can be reconfigured and

expanded.

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