The Physics Playground: Bounce, Tilt, Collapse, Repeat

Some rows on this floor test your hands; the physics row tests your curiosity. These are cabinets where the launch is yours but the landing belongs to gravity, and where the difference between a triumph and a catastrophe is usually one degree of angle. We built this playlist for the experimenters — the players whose first move in any new game is to see what breaks, tips, rolls or folds.

The front of the list holds the scientists' favourites: orbital golf that treats planets as furniture, and a crash-test sandbox with a genuinely royal commitment to destruction. Deeper in, the puzzles arrive — pins, screws and rolling races where physics stops being the joke and becomes the exam. Notes flag which is which, so you can choose between playing with the sandbox and being marked by it.