Mystery Objects Challenges! A hands-on puzzling event!  What is this thing anyhow?? What does it do?   A different kind of fun "puzzle" for thinking fun.....

150 HANDS-ON MYSTERY OBJECTS! WHATCHAMACALLITS!  - a funny & puzzling, hands-on event for your family   What are these 150 mystery objects anyhow?   ~ NOVEMBER 2-11, 2012 ~        MYSTERY OBJECTS!       Bring grandpa!     GROUP DISCOUNTS*         Drop-in, introductions given on the hour.              $5/person, all ages.  Free parking           Each weekend date has a Lightning Round!        What are these things? And What do they do?                 the event is filled with MYSTERY OBJECTS  CHALLENGES! An odd and funny hands-on annual "museum" puzzling event & experience with more than 150 curiosities and whatchamacallits for you to browse through and touch, trying to figure out what they are.   Clues are posted for some of the gizzmos, gadgets, devices, and strange antiques, the clues may help or may not.   Antiques, toys, tools, thingamajigs, parts & pieces, and even some things we don't know!     Be a history detective, a weekend anthropologist, a budding mechanic, a puzzle solver,   an armchair engineer, or just plain curious! This is hands-on fun mixed with thinking and a great inter-generational outing. Try curious "toys," wonder about tools from 100 years ago, puzzle over antiques.   The Burlington Historical Society's Museum and private collectors has helped in past years with special objects.  If you have something to donate to the event, give us a call. Extra Fun: OBJECTS IN A BOX? Can you figure out what is in the boxes without looking? Anyone can try this puzzling challenge with friends and visitors, except Superman! Lightning Round!  Watch or take part in the informal Mystery Objects Lightning Round!  A classic game show format for quick thinking  A variety of antiques, parts, tools, pieces, gizzmos and gadgets will be revealed, one at a time, and contestants ring the bell if they have a guess!  Prizes for the winner! Be a Mystery Objects Champ! This unique event has been recommended   by the Chicago Tribune, Midwest Events travel column;   Racine Journal Times,Nick, Jr. magazine, and covered by FOX TV Channel 6,  and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Come to see what the fun is about.

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What are these things anyhow?   Three generations wonder about this novelty science object and the antique tool in front of them. More than 150 MYSTERY OBJECTS are waiting for you.   Bring friends, families, church groups, your club, or your scout troops. It's a unique outing with playful thinking combined with science, history, engineering, toys, cultures, and hands-on fun. Advance group discounts for 20 or more .   Logic Puzzle Museum, special event.

A grant was received to help with aspects  of the Mystery Objects Event in 2011.  Elaine Sherry and Elsie Goulding are presenting  the grant check from Alpha Delta Kappa to  Judith Schulz, director of the Logic Puzzle Museum. Thank-you! And what is this object anyhow? This is one of 150 UNUSUAL items  you can pick up and handle & try to  figure out what it is, at MYSTERY OBJECTS! Over $3,000 of free admissions were offered to  Burlington, Wisconsin's 4th, 5th, 6th grade classes;  public and private schools to attend the unique,  awesome hands-on MYSTERY OBJECTS event  at the Logic Puzzle Museum.  (Thanks to a grant from Alpha Delta Kappa and  the Logic Puzzle Museum)  The public is always invited.   +    *Special FUNNY Presentation!  Time TBA! ODD NOVELTY ITEMS FROM the 1920s & 30s Fun presentation by expert collector & author Stan Timm with his famous funny collection!                                      Mystery Objects Event: Bus tours: call for details for unloading location.   Tour Companies: this makes a great mystery tour or fun stop on any outing.   Adults, seniors, and families all enjoy this hands-on event, sponsored by the Logic Puzzle Museum. *Groups of 20 or more:  5% discount for pre-paid tickets, use any day with group reservations Groups of 40 or more people: 10% discount for pre-paid tickets, use any day with group reservations & even Evening Hours   available for groups of 20 or more,   prepaid. Corporations and organizatons: why not buy a qunaity of tickets to give away or provide to a group as a thank-you or to a family in need.  You do two good deeds at once: helping them to attend a unique and educational event plus providing support at the same time for the non-profit museum to put this on. .............................................................................. ~ ANOTHER FUN EVENT YOU WOULD LIKE:        ......the fun, funny and memorable          Tongue Twister Contest Sunday, April 1, 2012 (no fooling!)    1 pm         Admission Prizes for everyone in the audience and more prizes for winning contestants! Laughter promised! .............................................................................. all information subject to change Many thanks to the  volunteers who made the 2010 event possible:   Maggie Christensen,  Jo Ann Toelle, Judith Schulz,  Penny Hallet, Doug Harris, Katrin Schulz-Berg, Randy Reitz, Linda Reed, Alice Campbell, and many others   (If we forgot to list your  name, please let us know...) Thanks to websites and media that listed the event and to the front page article in the Racine Journal Times written by David Steinkraus and photographer Gregory Shaver. Many thanks to the   volunteers who made the 2005   event possible:   Maggie Christensen, Matt Becker, Jo Ann Toelle, Chuck Toelle,  Judith Schulz, Penny Hallet, Doug Harris, Don VandeSand of the Burlington Historical Museum, George & Helen Karcher, Charissa Considine, and many others   Many thanks to the   volunteers who made the 2006 event possible:   Maggie & Ken Christensen,  Jo Ann Toelle, Judith Schulz, Penny Hallet, Doug Harris,   George & Helen Karcher,   students from PAC of Burlington & many others   Many thanks to the   volunteers who made the 2007 event possible:   Maggie & Ken Christensen,  Jo Ann Toelle,  Judith Schulz, Penny Hallet, Doug Harris,   George & Helen Karcher,   and many others   Many thanks to the  volunteers who made the 2008 event possible:   Maggie Christensen,  Jo Ann Toelle, Judith Schulz,  Penny Hallet, Doug Harris,  George & Helen Karcher,   Lynn Baumgartner, Jennifer Brown, Joey Greenamyer, Katrin Schulz-Berg and many others   (If we forgot to list your   name, please let us know...) Many thanks to the  volunteers who made the 2009 event possible:   Maggie Christensen,  Kelly Lawson, Jo Ann Toelle, Judith Schulz,  Penny Hallet, Doug Harris, Jennifer Brown, Joey Greenamyer, and many others   (If we forgot to list your   name, please let us know...) If you would like to help sponsor this event or help at this event, give us a call (262) 763-3946    non-profit, educational   LOGIC PUZZLE MUSEUM located in southeastern Wisconsin at 533 Milwaukee Avenue downtown Burlington,Wisconsin 53105 USA (262) 763-3946       Free parking www.logicpuzzlemuseum.org