Make a Basket from a Word

"Make a Basket from a Word" is a new toy that lets you make a basket from a word in the undip language.

The kit includes 15 weaving pieces in 3 colors, instructions, and some undip words to weave. More undip words are available here for those who want to make more baskets.

The first step is to learn to put three twogs together. Try following the sequence of images above. Remember to keep all the twogs with their rougher side facing you (that makes the ends look like a curled right hand.)


Try your hand on these:

u d
n p
u d u d
u d u d
u d n p
n u p d
n n p p
u u n d d p
u n n p d p
u d u d n p
n u n d p p
n n u p p d
n p u n d p
n p u d u d
n p n u p d
n p u n u d d p
n u n p p u d d
n u u n p d p d
u d n u n p d p
u u n n d d p p
u u n d n d p u p d
u n d u n u p d p d
u n p n u n d d p p
n u u n d p n p d p
n n n p u p p d n p

To make your own undip word, simply insert one undip word (the simplest are ud and np) anywhere inside another undip word. At the beginning or the end is okay too. That will produce a rather spliced-together looking basket. Applying a second rule solves that: any adjacent pair of left-and-right characters (those are: un, up, dn, dp, nu, nd, pu, pd) can shuffle past each other (becoming, respectively: nu, pu, nd, pd, and so on.)

Mutate your own!