The physical board
Claim
The board as an object is specified as a product plan — materials, sizes and variants — with prototypes claimed and none on file.
Construction
The planning document sets out a product tree rather than a single object: a magnetic board game, a wooden board game, a puzzleboard, a gameboard, cousin pieces, and pattern books alongside them.
Materials are named in order of preference: wood first, then plastic mould injection or cardboard, with the tiles themselves as puzzle pieces. Sizes run from one foot to four feet square. A laser cutter and a camera appear in the budget as equipment to be bought, which is a funding ask rather than a description of a workshop.
What is established, and what is claimed
Established: the intent, the variants, the materials and the size range are all written down in one place, and the commercial goal attached to them is explicit — a hundred boards sold by Christmas.
Claimed but not shown: the same document states that there is no ready product and that prototypes exist. No photograph, drawing or cut file of a built board is in any file available here.
What the digital side does give is the cut geometry. The board tool draws the field boundary and the frame from arcs, with the frame margin chosen so exactly r of material remains at its thinnest point — a fabrication constraint already solved on screen, whatever has or has not been cut.
Note
If prototypes exist, this page should carry them. A photograph would change its status entirely.
Open questions
- No photograph or cut file of a physical board is on file. Until one is, the page records a plan.
- No tolerance, thickness or material test for tiles that must be lifted and placed by hand.
- Whether the magnetic, wooden and puzzle variants share one geometry or need three.
- The board tool's frame rule is the nearest thing to a fabrication specification. Nothing connects it to a real material.
Checks
| What | How | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Product tree | Magnetic board, wooden board, puzzleboard, gameboard, cousin pieces, pattern books | Old Plan on Gameboard and Content.pdf |
| Materials and sizes | Wood preferred, then injection moulding or cardboard; one to four feet | Old Plan on Gameboard and Content.pdf |
| Status, in the document's own words | No ready product; prototypes stated | Old Plan on Gameboard and Content.pdf |
| Frame as drawn | Margin ½ + 1/√2 cells, leaving r of material at the thinnest point | nuna-board (2).html |
| Physical artifact | None on file. | — |