Jax Stumpes: Delaware Museum of Nature and Science (10/1/2023)

Sunday, October 1, 2023

Delaware Museum of Nature and Science (10/1/2023)

Sunday, October 1, 2023 (continued)

Oops! I had us visiting the Delaware Art Museum, only to discover we had already been there! So we continued on the the Delaware Museum of Nature & Science.

One of several sculptures on the grounds of the museum;
this is a Chelonodis nigra/Galápagos Tortoise

Delaware Museum of Nature & Science (est 1957 as the
Delaware Museum of Natural History,
building 1972, renovation 2022)

Gosh, we just saw one of these at the RI
Museum of Natural History, the egg of
the extinct Aepyornis maximus/Elephant Bird

Regional Journey Gallery showcased the
eco-zones and animals of Delaware; a
Aix sponsa/Wood Duck and likely a
Lithobates clamitans/Green Frog

Pagurus pollicaris/Flatclaw Hermit Crab in a
Euspira heros/Northern Moon Snail Shell with a
pair of Alitta succinea/Clam Worms

The Special Exhibit was Mindbender Mansion with brainteasers and puzzle challenges. Solving three challenges in each of four rooms in the mansion, gave you three clues to unlock a password. Once you had the four passwords, you could use them to print out a certificate of completion.

Remove four pieces to create four equal-sized triangles

Our solution

Arrange the pieces into a square

Arrange the numbers so that each row adds up to 18

Arrange the numbers so that each row adds up to 15

Arrange the pieces to make a 'T'

Arrange the pieces so that the each perimeter row has 10

Arrange the blocks in the box so that you can close the lid

Arrange the numbers so that no two
consecutive number touch each other

Move two pieces to create four equal square

We needed some help to get this solution

Other puzzles included finding one shape that could slip through a round, triangle and square hole; matching the color of touching sides of seven hexagon pieces, and a wild game of filling up trays with fitted food pieces as they go by on a conveyor belt.