When Robert Gair invented the cardboard box in 1879, he likely had no idea folks would eventually disassemble his creation to make boats. Thanks to Gair, folks have been floating — and sinking ...

“I realized I was surrounded by cardboard. I thought: ‘How could I make a game out of that ... games where you’re riding a horse, fighting on a pirate ship,” said Ellen Do, one of the team members ...

If that designer is Peter Gyory, a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, you figure out how to make a game out of the piles of discarded cardboard ... sails of a ship with ...