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Spring Toy, a still.
True size8cm across3.1 in
Toys · Built from a recipe

Spring Toy

No. 88 of 374, smallest first
A typical one: Slinky coil, about 8 cm

PlaygroundPull back from here

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

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Toys
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Licenses
CC0
Spring Toy at its real size

Life size. This spring toy is 8 cm across on your screen too, give or take a tenth on a phone. Hold a real one next to it.

How to play, in the Playground

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

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Make it walkTap
HurryButton
StyleList3 choicesRainbow

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

WorkByLicense
slinky Copy.wav (spring-toy-slinky.mp3)foxraidCC0 1.0

Share it

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.

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>

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