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What is that childrens toy you usually see in drs/dentist offices with the wood base, colorful metal wires and "beads" that can be movedd along the wires? (lemmy.world)

submitted 42 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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Sort of abacus-like but its not really for counting, probably helps with developing motor skill

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[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 4 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

I did a web search for wood and wire toy and this came up as one of the top results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bead_maze

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 34 minutes ago* (last edited 32 minutes ago)

I hope nobody gets upset I ask here instead of searching, its interesting to ask ;)

Also sllightly embarassed I didnt intuit the maze part, makes sense altho technically theres not anything outside of defined paths that cant deviate