The Curiosity Box is a quarterly subscription box to satisfy your thirst for knowledge. Each box comes with 6-9 items that will not only entertain, but also educate you and your family. The subscription is $49.90 per quarter and a portion of all proceeds are donated to fund Alzheimer’s research.
This is their box #13! 
The box is filled with stuff that will feed your mind.
Each item inside the box is individually packaged.
The Curiosity Box has a separate information card – it’s great for quick reference and for when someone steals your Curiosity Quarterly for bathroom reading.
It contains a list of all the goodies this quarter! And as always, INQ the octopus is our guide through the box.
Each box comes with the Curiosity Quarterly by VSauce.
The quarterly is loaded with interesting, short articles for the curious-minded!
The articles are truly geeky, in a good way. The musings draw from math, science, history, and culture to create fun articles with an inquisitive edge.
Are you ready for some Inqtivities? There’s a full page for that! The other page featured some tweets from the @tweetsauce archives!
There’s also a great read from a person that discovered his creativity being short and slow!
Another cool article in the magazine is about the Super Fly!
Dan Shiffman has a YouTube Channel where he shares code with the world. The “creative coding” tutorials range from JavaScript, Java, to generative algorithms.
Everything in the box!
INQ’s D60. We are used to seeing a 20-face dice, so we were really excited about how a 60-face dice looks like! Ours arrived in an orange drawstring pouch.
It’s almost round! This may take longer to stop when you roll it as compared to other dice because of its shape.
The featured artist for this box is Tammy Richardson, a professional Dental Hygienist, a single mother, and an Honorable Naval Veteran. She also runs a full-time Art Company named RAW.
Artist Spotlight Postcard. The featured artwork from the featured artist is an Adipose Tissue, a loose connective tissue composed of adipocytes that stores energy in the body in the form of fat, as it also cushions and insulates the body.
The back of the postcard explains more about the featured artwork, while the other side is left blank for notes, sweet nothings, and other information.
The next item that we got is a Steam game!
Steam Game: CHROMAGUN.
Welcome to ChromaTec’s test lab! You’re here to test our newest, state-of-the-art military-grade color-technology: The ChromaGun (patent pending)! Use it to try and solve our meticulously designed test chambers. The basic principle is as easy as applying it is complex: Exit the chambers via the exit doors. But be weary of the WorkerDroids in charge of maintaining the chambers. They’re not exactly what you and I would call “human friendly”.
Use the ChromaGun to colorize walls and WorkerDroids to progress in the chambers. WorkerDroids are attracted to walls of the same color. Using that mechanic, try to reach the exit door of each chamber. Some doors are more complicated to use than others: They can only be opened using door triggers and only stay open as long as the triggers are occupied.
If all of this sounds like your brain can handle it, congratulations! You’re the perfect candidate for our test chambers!
That being said, welcome and good luck!
In this game, you should use the ChromaGun to solve some meticulously designed test chambers by painting the walls and droids. The game works on Windows, Mac OS X, and SteamOS + Linux!
If you love different types of puzzles, here’s the perfect puzzle book (box) for you!
Puzzle Box Volume 1 Book ($12.78)
Multiplying my age by 6 then subtracting 6 produces the same result as subtracting 7 from my age then multiplying by 7. How old am I?
On my broken calculator with keys + – ÷ x =, the only functional number is 7. How can I get 34 to appear in the readout?
A country mints four denominations of coins, in whole numbers of cents. It takes four of these coins to make 21¢, or 24¢, or 25¢, or 26¢. What are the denominations of the coins?
These and almost 300 other mathematical puzzles appear in this original collection, devised by world-renowned mathematicians, puzzle creators, and devoted puzzle lovers. A unique puzzle project, it unites the efforts of a dozen authors, including software engineer Andrea Gilbert and Bram Cohen, author of the P2P BitTorrent protocol.
Seventeen different types of challenges include 3-D puzzles, chess puzzles, connections, dissections, foldings, geometrical puzzles, logic problems, matchstick puzzles, mazes, moving pieces, number puzzles, put-togethers, strimko, sudoku, visual puzzles, weightings, and word puzzles. The difficulty level of each puzzle is marked by stars, ranging from 2 to 5. Average difficulty level is about 3 stars, promising puzzle enthusiasts many entrancing hours of solving and enjoyment.
The book is filled with mathematical puzzles to get you busy for a long time!
There’s a foreword from the author, Peter Winkler.
The book contains 3-D puzzles, chess puzzles, connections, dissections, foldings, geometrical puzzles, logic problems, matchstick puzzles, mazes, moving pieces, number puzzles, put-togethers, strimko, sudoku, visual puzzles, weightings, and word puzzles.
The visuals are really attractive and colorful, you may want to solve some of them right away!
I love how they presented the puzzles randomly so if you got stuck in a certain kind, you can move over to another type, it’s more fun that way.
The mathematical puzzles are all interesting. We don’t do these page after page but we randomly turn pages to answer puzzles, making it more challenging and exciting!
We got a unique ruler in the box!
INQ’s Astonishing Ruler. The triangular box reminds us of Toblerone but apparently, what’s inside is a measuring tool!
The back of the box also imposed some questions that can be answered using the ruler!
The scale ruler has different units of measurement, aside from the usual ones like inches and centimeters.
The ruler measures in beard fortnights and sound microseconds!
It’s a cool measurement tool as you can easily convert the units. A scale ruler also transfer measurements at a fixed ratio.
Cosmic Latte VSauce T-Shirt. Shirts from this box are always placed in a cool giftable box that features their mascot, INQ the octopus.
Placing the shirt in the box makes me more curious about the design!
The shirt features the average color of the universe, and what looks pieces of a broken gem.
The shirt is light and comfy, and it looks really cool!
The back has VSauce’s popular V branding!
We couldn’t help but geek out in these articles for Newton’s cradle and the trisected cube!
INQ’s Trisected Cube. The cube is split symmetrically along a helicoid surface or a trisected cube.
We can trisect a cube in many different ways, but this one here is done in a more elegant way. The design is discovered by Mathematician Rober Reid, all three parts can be disassembled and reassembled easily.
It may be easily disassembled but it requires a special technique to put them back together!
It can be a fun challenge for everyone!
We had fun with this item as it took us some time to figure out how to put it back!
INQ’s Newton’s Cradle. Last, but definitely not the least, we got Newton’s Cradle!
Inq’s Newton’s cradle reveals the wonders of conservation laws. When balls are lifted up and released, they strike the stationary balls and send balls on the oppostite side flying up! The momentum and energy of the incoming balls will always match the momentum and energy of the outgoing balls (until friction and air resistance dissipate all the motion, of course). The forces that travel through the stationary balls move at nearly 13,000 mph (if you could drive that fast, you’d make it from New York to LA in just 11 minutes!).
The box even showed us how Newton’s cradle works using illustrations.
We mostly see this item on working desks, doing its thing. This perfectly shows us the conservation of Momentum!
No matter how many balls you pull up or the height you release them from, the product of their velocity at impact and combined mass will BE EQUAL to the product of the velocity and combined mass of the balls knocked out on the other side.
This is such an amazing device. We all had fun observing how it works!
This box is full of fun and engaging puzzles! We love that they included challenging stuff for everyone in the family! The quarterly wait for this box is really worth it, they don’t disappoint when it comes to educational and enjoyable content. For this edition, we all love the puzzle book! There are lots of different kinds of puzzles and we love doing them randomly. The trisected cube is another great item in this box, and everyone had a great time trying to reassemble it! This box definitely feeds our minds, and we’re happy to finish everything off gaining new knowledge or even skills!
What do you think of this quarter’s box?
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