Comments on: Show me some mystery objects.

Question: Show me some mystery objects.

djstig — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:23:02 -0800

Are there any good online resources for "Mystery Object" games?

A friend teaches EFL students and once a week takes a quiz with them. We decided that showing mystery objects and asking the students to talk about what they could be would be a good way of making learning fun!!

However I can't find many websites with mystery object pictures, can you help. They could be a random object that people are not sure what it does, or preferably a close up of a well known object.

I can find a lot of "What the hell is this thing?" - especially on AskMe & Flickr. But sites with a collection of different pictures (with answers) would be very handy.

By: jozxyqk

jozxyqk — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:33:20 -0800

Try the search term "eyeball benders". This is what Games Magazine calls them, and there seem to be a bunch of good search results for you.

By: jozxyqk

jozxyqk — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:34:46 -0800

or, upon re-reading the question, maybe that's not quite what you mean by "What the hell is this thing?"

By: djstig

djstig — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:14:38 -0800

"Eyeball benders" is indeed what I am after. Thanks jozxyqk. Also after "What the hell is this thing?" though.

By: advicepig

advicepig — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:02:58 -0800

I've always loved the collection at the Powerhouse Museum for moments of, "what is that thing?"

By: zeph

zeph — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:08:12 -0800

Neatorama does this a lot as a contest - I just went there and searched for "What Is It?" to get back a list of about 60 of them. Apparently they're all taken from a site called (natch) What Is It, which has even more such objects - but personally I prefer the ones on Neatorama because the accompanying posts there are usually updated to give you the answer to what the danged things are, once the contest is over ...