What is It? Game 37

Posted by Alex in What Is It on September 13, 2007 at 5:55 am


This week’s collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange tool: can you guess what it is?

Since last week’s game was solved in just 10 minutes after posting, we’ll have another prize for this game: a Free Live! Pro Webcam by Creative. It’s not the newest model available today, but hey! It’s never-opened and it’s free!

Contest rules are simple: place your guess on the comment section, one guess per comment but you can guess as many times as you’d like. Please post no URL, let others play. First one to guess right gets the prize (unfortunately, I can only ship this to US and Canada – if you’re elsewhere, you’d just have to comfort yourself with a Neatorama T-shirt).

For more clues, check out What is it? blog. Good luck!

Update 9/14/07 – the answer is:

This is a universal tool used for lifting hot plates, pots, and stove lids. It can also be used as a meat tenderizer and a trivet, patent number 241,893.

No one got it, so the prize will carry over to next week.


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40 comments to "What is It? Game 37"

  1. Martijn
    September 13th, 2007 at 6:26 am

    Is it a gun trigger?

  2. Mark
    September 13th, 2007 at 6:27 am

    A tool for aligning the timing steam engines?

  3. Catsvillage
    September 13th, 2007 at 6:30 am

    Piece of watch works???

  4. SenorMysterioso
    September 13th, 2007 at 6:53 am

    whatever it is, I'll take two

  5. Miss Cellania
    September 13th, 2007 at 7:23 am

    This is definately an instrument of torture!

  6. Martijn
    September 13th, 2007 at 7:25 am

    Is it from a stitching machine?

  7. Martijn
    September 13th, 2007 at 7:30 am

    Or from a stove

  8. spavis
    September 13th, 2007 at 7:39 am

    It looks like one of those things that lets you carry plastic grocery bags.

  9. Martijn
    September 13th, 2007 at 7:47 am

    or a lockjaw (klem in Dutch)

  10. Fishbowl
    September 13th, 2007 at 8:02 am

    Looks like a bottle opener to me. Even if it isn't, that's what I would use it for.

  11. Tyler
    September 13th, 2007 at 8:04 am

    It's an old rope climbing descender.

  12. Martijn
    September 13th, 2007 at 8:07 am

    Final guess: it must have been used for grilling.

  13. Mihkel Aan
    September 13th, 2007 at 8:20 am

    i think it is a tool used working with ATMs

  14. Craig Clayton
    September 13th, 2007 at 8:26 am

    At first I thought of Brass Knuckles, but no I believe it is a staple puller that is held in one hand.

  15. Mihkel Aan
    September 13th, 2007 at 8:38 am

    rope makeing tool

  16. Curt
    September 13th, 2007 at 8:38 am

    Tensioner

  17. Randall
    September 13th, 2007 at 8:51 am

    It is a splindelet. This was used in the steam age weaving industry to align contrasting warps. It was invented by Myron J. Kustonornivec after witnessing a particularly gruesome accident in a New Jersey mill. Subsequently several hundred children were put out of work and their families suffered.

  18. Randall
    September 13th, 2007 at 8:52 am

    Actually I think it is a sewing machine tensioner.

  19. Mike
    September 13th, 2007 at 9:06 am

    It's a knuckle duster.

  20. Keith
    September 13th, 2007 at 9:23 am

    A Horse Farrier tool. A multi-purpose combination hand tool useful for maintaining and attachment of horse shoes

  21. Demonio Flatline
    September 13th, 2007 at 9:35 am

    I think it is something to measure up different calibers of penises and testicles. The tool also has a handle and a lever to help removing an enlargment device.

  22. Kristian
    September 13th, 2007 at 9:35 am

    I don't know what it is....but I want one!

  23. ak
    September 13th, 2007 at 9:50 am

    I don't know what it is but i know i wouldn't like being punched with this thing.

  24. S-r-ex
    September 13th, 2007 at 10:08 am

    Is it a kind of brass knuckles?

  25. TerryWrist
    September 13th, 2007 at 11:01 am

    looks like something to pick up bales of stuff with.

  26. twitchings
    September 13th, 2007 at 11:06 am

    It is a bicycle chain adjustment tool....?

  27. Dan
    September 13th, 2007 at 11:29 am

    Part of a set of handcuffs.

  28. Austin Storm
    September 13th, 2007 at 11:31 am

    It's a capo. =P

  29. Austin Storm
    September 13th, 2007 at 11:42 am

    Oh, and Randall: you must be really good at balderdash.

  30. phil
    September 13th, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    it's 6" long, so I'd say watch movement is out, but it could be part of the movement for a grandfather clock. the lever to the right rides along another gear, blah, blah, bah

  31. Jim A.
    September 13th, 2007 at 1:50 pm

    For wrapping insulation around wire?

  32. TerryWrist
    September 13th, 2007 at 2:06 pm

    A corset tightener

  33. Adam Stanhope
    September 13th, 2007 at 2:24 pm

    It is a handle for picking up something heavy. The fingerholds are obvious. It fits into a slot in the heavy object and locks it for lifting. I'll bet the heavy object is a block of ice in a mold.

  34. Jen
    September 13th, 2007 at 6:35 pm

    Is it something that helps in the making of pie crusts?

  35. LoveMeorDie236
    September 13th, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    its a thing to make scarves or crochets??

  36. Cindy
    September 13th, 2007 at 9:22 pm

    It's part of a sewing machine (the end that turns.)

  37. Cindy
    September 13th, 2007 at 9:27 pm

    or possibly part of the silk sorting machine.

  38. otep
    September 13th, 2007 at 11:13 pm

    yes, but will it blend?

  39. Whimsy
    September 14th, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    It's a tool that helps you tie knots, mostly for tying down cargo: you wrap the rope around the protrusions and through the holes, and by turning it, you can create various knots that would otherwise be hard to tension properly (it also allows you to handle cargo safely without having to learn how to make all kinds of tricky knots by hand).

  40. Alex
    September 14th, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    Oooh, this was a good one: nobody guessed right.


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