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

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

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

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

Simulators:

• Turing Tumble Simulator
• JSTumble
• Turing Tumble VR

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.

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

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

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”

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).

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