"The Unbeatable Game from the 60s: Dr NIM"

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shortform youtube video from Stand-up Maths. Preview screen is of the host holding up the 1960s board game box for "the amazing dr. nim"; to his right is the red plastic mechanical board, which consists of 12 marbles set atop a zigzagging vertical path, which includes several white routing switches
ran into a description of this game the other day (falling down a rabbithole of toy mechanical computers).

based on the game of nim:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

original video also linked the entry for the game on Computer History Museum:
https://www.computerhistory.org/collecti...

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