[Tyler]

The Amazing Magic Robot is Always Right
     

YouTube user backwards7 brings us a
little bit of nostalgia with this look at the UK Merit Games product from
the 1950s, "The Amazing Magic Robot". Supposedly the toothpick-wielding
robot always gives the right answer because the robot is ingenious,
amazing, mystical, and infallible. In actuality the robot gives the
right answer because there are interchangeable Q&A sheets on playing
surface which match the final orientation of the robot to the
appropriate answer. Legend
has it that
there were so few Q&A sheets available that kiddos quickly became bored
and improvised their own fun by intentionally installing mismatching
question and answer zones, leading to the sort of zany fun
show in backward7's
video. Nostalgic bloggers have deconstructed
the bizarre cover art on the box or even named
their blogs after the infallible robot. The magic robot is amazingly
scare today but you might find
one on eBay if you're patient.
   

http://robots.net/article/2875.html