Awesome Turing Tumble

A curated list of awesome things built with the esoteric and turing-complete language Turing Tumble.

• Website
• Puzzles
• Software
• Articles
• Papers
• Other marble computers
• Contribute
• License

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Turing Tumble Web Site

Turing Tumble is a revolutionary new game where players build marble-powered computers to solve logic puzzles. It’s fun, addicting, and while you’re at it, you discover how computers work.

• Landing page
• Community
• Educator resources
• Store

Puzzles

Solutions to all Turing Tumble puzzles in the Educator Guide (see the notation used in the solutions).

01..10	11..20	21..30
Puzzle 01	Puzzle 11	Puzzle 21
Puzzle 02	Puzzle 12	Puzzle 22
Puzzle 03	Puzzle 13	Puzzle 23
Puzzle 04	Puzzle 14	Puzzle 24
Puzzle 05	Puzzle 15	Puzzle 25
Puzzle 06	Puzzle 16	Puzzle 26
Puzzle 07	Puzzle 17	Puzzle 27
Puzzle 08	Puzzle 18	Puzzle 28
Puzzle 09	Puzzle 19	Puzzle 29
Puzzle 10	Puzzle 20	Puzzle 30

Software

Simulators:

• Turing Tumble Simulator
• JSTumble
• Turing Tumble VR
• Tumble Together

GitHub repositories:

• jessecrossen/ttsim: A simulator for the Turing Tumble
• MichaelSpencerJr/TTBoardReader: Image Processor for converting pictures of a Turing Tumble board into jstumble-like notation.
• OUDON/emtumble: An emulator of Turing Tumble written in C++.
• PiwwowPants/TuringTumble: An unofficial, digital version of the Kickstarter game Turing Tumble.

Articles

Selected articles on Turing Tumble.

• Cool marble-powered mechanical computer to solve logic problems
• Kickstarter Alert: Program a Mechanical Computer With ‘Turing Tumble’
• Review: Turing Tumble
• The Turing Tumble lets you and your kids build real mechanical computers
• Turing Tumble Game Teaches Computational Thinking
• Turing Tumble Review
• Turing Tumble is a mechanical computer built for gaming
• Turing Tumble on Kickstarter Has Kids Building Mechanical Computers
• Turing Tumble: A Timberdoodle Review
• Turing Tumble: Gaming on a Mechanical Computer
• Turing Tumble’s Incredible Kickstarter Journey
• Understand Computer Logic With Turing Tumble
• Wikipedia: Turing Tumble

Papers

Published papers on Turing Tumble.

• Cellular Automaton Model for Turing Tumble Mechanical Computer
• Constructing reversible logic elements on Turing Tumble model
• Resource review: Turing Tumble a programmable logic building kit
• Turing Tumble Is P(SPACE)-Complete
• Turing Tumble is P-Complete (Draft Proof Sketch)
• Universal logic elements constructed on the Turing Tumble

Other marble computers

Documents on other marble computers can help the study of Turing Tumble.

• The Power of the Digi-Comp II: My First Conscious Paperlet
• Digi-Comp II Instruction Manual
• Images from “Marble Runs and Turing Machines”

Contribute

Please contribute! Open an issue or a pull request and we’ll discuss it or merge it. If you’re opening a pull request, please ensure all formatting is ok (if you’re in a hurry just open an issue).

License

This website content is licensed under the MIT license (code) and the CC-BY-3.0 license (documents).