What is It? Game 25.

By Alex in What Is It on Jun 14, 2007 at 3:51 am

This week’s collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this strange, spiky contraption. Can you guess what it is? For more clues, please visit What is It? Blog.

No T-shirt this week, you’re playing for bragging rights only (Congrats to Chief-Ten-Bears and Randall who won last week’s game)

Update 6/16/07: It’s a polyhedral sundial – congrats to laini #1 who got it right.


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  1. laini
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 5:40 am

    It’s a sundial.

  2. Miss Cellania
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 5:43 am

    Now, THAT’S an instrument of torture!

  3. yayo
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 5:47 am

    it’s a perpetual calendar, a sun and moon clock and calendar

  4. Tim Giachetti
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 5:57 am

    Early orbital weather device.

  5. Jen
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 6:16 am

    One of those things that’s atop an air-control tower. An early version.

  6. Tim Giachetti
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 6:17 am

    yayo [deleted - please no name calling] is right.

  7. Lasse
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 6:26 am

    The annual Death Star soccer game trophy.

  8. Randall
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 7:44 am

    It is an Omnimopometer, used for transducing intersteller space prior to the discovery of Edwerkel’s unsolveable quotient. While many oldsters still swear by the ‘peter’it was found to have a base 6 flaw which had the alarming effect of reversing the hearing of one traveler in 16,000,000. I had one made of malachite.

  9. matt
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 7:56 am

    no fair – i used to work at the adler planetarium. it’s a sundial.

  10. Peter
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 8:54 am

    knitting tool, for sure

  11. Kevin
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 9:32 am

    Its a Tesla conductive Generator.

  12. warmworm
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 9:51 am

    This is the Grand Prize Trophy for an extreme hacky sack game variation. You must keep the “ball” in the air whilst kicking it at your opponents in hopes of impaling their feet/limbs/etc., to knock them out of competition. Extra points are awarded for neat tricks and/or castrating your opponent.

  13. puddlehopper
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 9:53 am

    It’s a note holder. Can hold up to 11 separate piles of impaled notes.

  14. john
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 10:19 am

    It’s the camera used for Google street views.

  15. kid icarus
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 10:54 am

    dang, i thought it was one of those static ball things that made your hair stand on end…….or a precursor to the dalek

  16. hermit_man
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 11:03 am

    Geodesic Dome

  17. The Corinthian
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 11:39 am

    Space mine from the Neutral Zone. Sundial.

  18. Drew
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    Automatic banana peeler

  19. Chris
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 1:42 pm

    a back scratcher?

  20. Vexorg
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

    I think LARPers use one of those to roll for damage.

  21. alexander P
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    it is twelve sided, so possibly not a calendar, not a single month sun dial, but a sun dial with a different face for each respective month? (I’m not sure about the bottom, which appears to be now mounted, but possibly two months in the year have identical solar what evers?

  22. Izzy
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 2:54 pm

    Proof that barbarians (as a class) have brass “ones.”

  23. amanda
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 2:57 pm

    An AD&D trophy?

  24. Jeff
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 4:19 pm

    A device used as a base and pedestal around which one can mount and construct large decorative floral arrangements.

  25. Dan
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 7:08 pm

    It is the business end of a lightning/ spark generator, used for testing Radio-frequency interference.

  26. Grahf
    Jun 14th, 2007 at 8:43 pm

    Simple. It’s metal.

  27. Alex
    Jun 16th, 2007 at 10:36 am

    Aw, it was too easy for you guys! Guessed right by laini #1 – it’s a polyhedral sundial.

  28. Storm
    Jun 17th, 2007 at 8:45 am

    I think it’s a model of a Carbon molecule. I don’t know anything about molecules or atoms or anything like that, but this was the very first thought that popped into my head.

  29. Storm
    Jun 17th, 2007 at 8:46 am

    LOL. So now I see that someone already got it right.


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