That Blummen Film!

[Doofus]

This isn't a TV/Movie thread, BTW.

Is there a toy that consists of several rings of letters around a cylinder of five or six inches long?

Just turned on (and then off again) the Da Vinci Code, to see something similar being thrown though the air. I'm sure there was something when I was younger. Mrs Doofus is convinced I'm a doofus.

[TheEnd]

Are you thinking of a lager can?

That's was one of my favourite childhood games

[Pigeon]

Sounds like the thing where you wrap a strip of paper round a cylinder to write a secret message so when you unwrap it it's just a strip with all jumbled up letters on it and it doesn't make sense until you wrap it round the same size cylinder again.

[plg]

A scytale?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scytale

[Doofus]

No there yet. My memories of it are dim, but I think I remember it being about 1.5" in diameter, and 6 or 7 inches long. There were maybe a dozen brown plastic rings with letters around them which you turned to line up, like that cryptex thing, and then I think the end of the cylinder came off if you got the combination right. Was the cylinder a goldish colour?

I have found literally nothing on the web, so maybe I'm mis-remembering two different things, but I can almost feel the lettered rings in my hands. As you turned them, they made a plastic-on-plastic creaking noise. Was it a kind of Rubik's style puzzle?

This is going to drive me bonkers.

[becksW]

Doofus said:

No there yet. My memories of it are dim, but I think I remember it being about 1.5" in diameter, and 6 or 7 inches long. There were maybe a dozen brown plastic rings with letters around them which you turned to line up, like that cryptex thing, and then I think the end of the cylinder came off if you got the combination right. Was the cylinder a goldish colour?

I have found literally nothing on the web, so maybe I'm mis-remembering two different things, but I can almost feel the lettered rings in my hands. As you turned them, they made a plastic-on-plastic creaking noise. Was it a kind of Rubik's style puzzle?

This is going to drive me bonkers.

That is starting to ring a bell with me, esp mentioning the rubiks...will ask hubby later he's good at this sort of thing!

[Simpo Two]

Doofus said:

This isn't a TV/Movie thread, BTW.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&f=204&mid=15671

[pugwash4x4]

it was a game where you had to make words didnt you?

we had a version of it when i was a kid- but i can't remember what it was called either.

[cal72]

Is this it?