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Hover mowers and a pizza teleporter: inside the lab that answers Cosyford’s questions
Can jam glow in the dark? Where do odd socks go? Professor Minnie Boffin finds out, and invents something marvellous for your businesses along the way.
Questions arrive at the lab by post from all over town, and every one goes round three benches. At the chemistry bench you hold a bottle to pour red, yellow or blue into the flask, matching the colour on the card and filling it to the white line. Pour too much and it foams over the top. Then you stir it and see how close you got.
Next is the particle accelerator, a ring of magnets that fills the back wall. The particle whizzes round and you tap just as it passes the green gate, kicking it faster and faster until it smashes into the target. Last comes the crystal jar: hold to warm it, let go to cool it, and keep the needle in the green while the crystal grows. The green keeps moving, and somebody always leaves the window open.
Each experiment gives you ideas, and ideas buy inventions for your businesses: Hover Mowers for the Gardens, Self-Driving Tractors for the Farm, the Pizza Teleporter for Slice of Life. You drag the parts onto the turntable, pull the big lever and let go in the green, and the invention shows off round the lab. From then on its business earns half as much again while it runs itself. Professor Boffin reports that her eyebrows have mostly grown back.
