Architecture: A life-size recreation of iconic Mousetrap game? Yes please

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I could never be bothered to play Mousetrap when I was little. Well, that’s a lie, I didn’t actually have it. Some of my friends did, but it always took bloody ages to play it for not much in the way of return. This is why I was shocked, genuinely shocked, to see that grown men and women had spent a good few weeks constructing a life size, 25 tonne version of the classic game at Austin’s Maker Faire.

One of the makers describes working on this extraordinary achievement as a dream come true. “I believe that most people endeavour to shape there immediate environment, and this motivation is never more pure than when one is a child,” creator Mark Perez states on their site. “As a kid I learned to play board games like “mousetrap” and finally could exercise control over my own destiny,  no help from the parents or older siblings my developing wit against the world.”

“I completed the worlds largest mousetrap board game in 2005 and decided that it was not to be a self-centred achievement. The Life size Mousetrap was designed to be mobile. To tour about the world and use the childhood tools of wonder and excitement to plant the seeds of curiosity with a 25 ton Rube Gold Burg machine!”