Spring Toy

A spring toy is a long, loose coil of metal or plastic that can walk down stairs by itself.

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Shelf: Toys
Kind: Built from a recipe
Sound: Yes
Licenses: CC0

How to play

Pull its top coils up or sideways; let go and it springs back. Tap to hurry it along.

Its controls

Control	Kind	Range	Start
Make it walk	Tap
Hurry	Button
Style	List	3 choices	Rainbow

About it

A spring toy is a long, loose coil of metal or plastic that can walk down stairs by itself. Set one end on a lower step and it flips over, end over end, as each coil tips across in turn and the weight moves from one end to the other. It was invented in the 1940s by an engineer who saw a spring fall off a shelf and keep moving.

This one walks by itself, its coils flipping over from one side to the other. Pull its top coils up or to the side and it gathers into a stack and stretches out, coil by coil; let go and it springs back down and wobbles, then walks on. Tap it to hurry it along. Pick a rainbow, metal or pastel coil in the Splash tab.

Details

Splats: Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,998 at Low, and up to 1,000,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Work	By	License
slinky Copy.wav (spring-toy-slinky.mp3)	foxraid	CC0 1.0

Share it

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https://splashery.app/play/?toy=spring-toy

<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script>
<splashery-toy toy="spring-toy"></splashery-toy>