ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Four slide machine

Okay kiddo, have you ever played with a toy car ramp that has four different levels and the cars slide down it really fast? Well, a four slide machine is kind of like that but much bigger and more complex.

Imagine a really big machine with four different ramps or slides that can move up and down. You can put something on each ramp and it will slide down to the bottom. But, here's the cool part - the ramps can move and change positions!

So, let's say you put four different things on each ramp - a ball, a toy car, a block, and a teddy bear. The machine can then move the ramps around so that the ball goes down the ramp first, then the toy car, then the block, and then finally the teddy bear.

You can even program the machine to move the ramps in different ways, so that the ball goes down the third ramp first, the car goes down the second ramp, the block goes down the first ramp, and the teddy bear goes down the fourth ramp.

That's basically what a four slide machine does - it's a big machine with four different ramps that can move around and change positions to make things slide down in different orders. Isn't that cool?