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50 more unique Fantastic Contraption solutions!

A little over a week ago, I finally found out about Fantastic Contraption, a very cool physics flash game.

A sample catapult I made

A sample catapult I made

I posted about how addictive I thought it was, as well as showed some cool designs I had seen. Most of the time when I play I try to come up with different designs, but today I was hunting around trying to find some really unique solutions to the levels. Most of the levels are solved basically the same way by most people, so I tried to look for unique and innovative solutions. I found 50 cool new solutions, which I’ve put here.

I sorted them all by level and then each by how much I liked it, putting my favorites last. I’m a firm believer in saving the best for last. :]

I didn’t name these, I just cleaned up the name that they were given. None of these are mine except for “Push” under “Mission to Mars”.

Without further ado, here’s my list of favorites. Maybe some of these can give you cool ideas.

4 Balls

  • The Spoon: Lets all 4 balls load up before flinging them over.
  • Brown Four Ball: Does the same thing as the spoon, only without using any wheels: just gravity.
  • Stairs of Heaven: Uses levers and wheels to bring each ball up one level at a time.

Around the Bend

  • Smooth: Throws a piece to allow gravity to take over.
  • The Hard Way: Pushes all distractions out of the way and then launches the ball.

Awash!

  • Sweeper More: What it doesn’t push over it, it pushes in front of it.
  • Mole: Burrows everything out of its way.

Back and Forth

  • Pointless: Uses three separate machines to grab the ball and pull it along.
  • One of a Kind: Brings the ball in and shoots it out like a cannon.
  • Unnecessary: Very complex, but in the end it works!

Big Ball

  • Mine: Uses some extending rods to beat the big ball. Reminds me of those extending-reach things.
  • That’s the Best: Uses a small piece to keep the big ball out of the way.

Down Under

Full-Up

  • Green Solution: This wouldn’t have a chance if it wasn’t for the giant ball.
  • Teeter-Totter: Uses gravity to launch the piece into the goal.

Handling

  • Cool: I’m not even sure why half of that stuff is necessary…
  • Goal: Pushes the piece around with a big arm. Pretty clever.

Higher

  • Throw up: Uses a slingshot to shoot the piece up.
  • Come Together: Beatles allusions aside, this one brings two separate wheels together to raise the piece. Simple, but clever.

Junkyard

  • Dozer: A bulldozer that pushes everything out of the way.
  • Catapult: A quick catapult to clear the junk.

Mission to Mars

  • Apples: This shouldn’t work, but it does.
  • Push: A very simple slingshot to shoot the ball across the gap.
  • Manual: A falling ramp makes this one possible.
  • OMG: Drops the ball down a track that shoots it over.

Reach Up

  • Glitch FTW: Uses the glitch to rocket the ball in.
  • Big Bridge: Cradles the ball safely in a moving bridge.
  • Blue Champ: Lets gravity pull on the blue rods to lift the ball.
  • A Little Help: A catapult throws the ball onto a moving platform which takes it the rest of the way. Now that’s teamwork.
  • Basketball: A catapult shoots the ball into a basket. This is very cool, definitely one of my favorites.

The Wall

  • Best Ever 2: Credits to Kyle (see comments) for this. Throws the ball around the side.

Unpossible

  • Ball on a Chain: A catapult with a chain that’s just the right length.
  • O.o: Launches two separate machines that are timed perfectly. This is probably the coolest contraption I’ve seen yet. I can’t imagine how long it took to get the timing perfect.

Up the Stairs

  • Weee!: Three levels of wheels should do the trick!
  • Soft Pitch: A catapult on the underside instead of on top.
  • Monster Car: I just like the way this thing looks.
  • Roll Out: Creates a path over the red circles to be driven over.
  • No Power: Uses gravity to create a catapult. Doesn’t use any turning wheels!
  • Alley Oop!: What do you do when one catapult isn’t enough? Build a second!

U-Turn

  • EZ: Using the glitch to hurl the ball around the corner. This reminds me of mini-golf.
  • Dump Truck: Rolls the piece out up top and even saves it at the end.
  • Other Way: Creates a ramp on the left side of the level.
  • Woo!: A catapult that bounces the ball off of the environment and into the goal.
  • Arm: Goes around the left with a nice big arm.
  • Endless: Hit ‘Back’ after it finishes to watch this thing go on again and again without stopping. It’s more impressive when you actually watch it happen. Very cool.

A little bit more Fail

No list of Fantastic Contraptions would be complete without at least a few contraptions that don’t work quite right. Here are some of my favorite failures:

  • Magnet: Somehow sucks all of the debris towards the contraption….
  • So Close: This one just about makes it to the top
  • Damn It: I cannot believe how close this one comes.
  • Please Kill Me: This one actually looks like it would work, but then it just goes… well you’ll see.

Of all of these contraptions, my personal favorite would probably be “O.o”, under “Unpossible”, but really it’s hard to say — many of them are very cool.

Does anyone have any other really cool contraptions to share?

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85 Replies to “50 more unique Fantastic Contraption solutions!”

Comments:

1. Loutro

September 19th, 2008 8:47 am

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1817651

2. Loutro

September 19th, 2008 12:06 pm

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1825358

3. Adrian

September 25th, 2008 10:36 pm

This is a solution to TUBE that i made
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2130792

4. Paul

September 26th, 2008 3:19 pm

Very nice. That level took me ages to beat.

5. Kyle

September 30th, 2008 6:55 pm

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1748134

6. Paul

September 30th, 2008 9:07 pm

@Kyle: Oh my god that is really cool. I wouldn’t have thought of that.

7. Covarr

September 30th, 2008 9:46 pm

The very first link you provide, to “Hilarious” for 4 Balls, is not the right link at all; it leads to “O.o” for Unpossible.

8. Paul

September 30th, 2008 11:52 pm

Hmm, you’re right. I must have messed up my list when I made it. Thank you for pointing that out. I’ll put in Kyle’s — that’s listworthy, I think, and I can keep it at 50!

9. Bob

October 1st, 2008 8:15 pm

Here are two of my favorites:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=8002
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=7907

10. Paul

October 1st, 2008 10:14 pm

@Bob: Those are pretty cool. I like the Evil Kinevil one the most

11. potato

October 2nd, 2008 4:13 pm

One of mine: http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=397395

Tube. No wheels, powered or otherwise.

12. Kender2

October 2nd, 2008 4:57 pm

An elegant Unpossible?
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2449507

14. Paul

October 3rd, 2008 7:25 pm

@Bull: I’ve gotta admit, the Goatse one made me laugh

15. Lindsay

October 4th, 2008 12:21 pm

Very cool, thanks.

16. Taylor

October 5th, 2008 2:43 pm

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2608570
awesome big ball

17. hotea1313

October 6th, 2008 1:13 am

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2630084
a near miss i almost lost this one then i didnt

18. hotea1313

October 6th, 2008 1:13 am

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2630084
a near miss

19. Hellen

October 13th, 2008 12:13 am

Great great and solutions also :). Thanks others also. This game is very addictive indeed.

20. Scott

November 5th, 2008 7:28 pm

i’m telling you, THIS is the best solution to “back and forth” yet. Its complex, yet simple. SO beautiful:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2655855

21. Scott

November 5th, 2008 7:36 pm

These also deserve a look:

Mission to Mars:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2658308

Junkyard:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2657676

Toy Crane:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2761687

I just hope some people might like these solutions!

22. Kevin

December 18th, 2008 5:40 am

ok that was funny game with really annoying music :)I’ll never play it again

24. Sync Evil

January 1st, 2009 6:17 pm

may contrapts r

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5267105

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5251471

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5251371

put other comment in cause spelt email thing wrong and wnet to say so but other 1 didnt go through that i first did

25. Drako

January 9th, 2009 8:57 pm

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5405720 That’s one of my favorite of my creations XD

26. Paul

January 11th, 2009 1:31 pm

@Drako:
Yeah, that glitch works surprisingly well at reaching the goal. That’s otherwise a fairly tough level too.

27. ImBill

February 7th, 2009 1:09 am

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5928260

I made this bulldozer a short while after fantastic contraption started up, thought I’d share it.

28. Paul

February 7th, 2009 1:13 am

@ImBill: It’s very fun in that game to “brute force” your way through things by just making a gigantic machine that powers through it. Very nice!

29. Jason

February 10th, 2009 7:45 pm

Another simple solution for U-TURN:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=6004038
↑↑↑Enter into web browser.↑↑↑

30. Paul

February 10th, 2009 9:07 pm

@Jason: Very cool solution!

31. clarkmanark

February 11th, 2009 8:47 pm

This is my design for full up i think its one of my most creative hope you guys like it

32. Paul

February 11th, 2009 10:12 pm

@clarkmanark: Very cool design!

33. Rob

February 12th, 2009 2:51 pm

Check this one out, my solution for Unpossible
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=6030775

34. Paul

February 12th, 2009 3:18 pm

@Rob: Very nice. That’s definitely simpler than most solutions for that have been.

35. Dave

February 24th, 2009 4:33 pm

ok that was funny game with really annoying music :)I’ll never play it again :P

36. Paul

February 24th, 2009 5:04 pm

@Dave: You can mute the music :)

37. lildward

April 27th, 2009 4:14 pm

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=7549497 /

38. Imp

April 27th, 2009 7:51 pm

Wow, quite a lot of people showing their solutions…

39. mikstr2

June 2nd, 2009 3:53 pm

I was watching “plz kill me” and right before i clicked to se it i took a sip of milk and when i saw it go crazy i spit all of it out and some went through my nose lol

40. Paul

June 3rd, 2009 3:01 am

@mikstr2: I know what you mean, hahaha. They’re really entertaining because you don’t always expect them to fail so badly.

41. awais baig

June 29th, 2009 3:19 am

Check this solution for Unpossible. it was actually easy considering how impossible it looks.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=8427638

42. Mike from Mini Laptop Computer

July 2nd, 2009 12:25 am

That’s an amazing piece of work, thanks for the tip. Could be the next web cult classic next to “Line Rider” :)
.-= Mike@Mini Laptop Computer´s last blog ..Asus 1002HA Eee PC Review =-.

43. Si from Leadership

July 10th, 2009 5:47 am

Fantastic Conraption is awesome – I love physics games. They sound geekyy but they’re not – they often the most creative games you can play on!
.-= Si@Leadership´s last blog ..Leadership Development Training =-.

44. eyehawk78

August 24th, 2009 10:10 am

For four balls, http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=8956997

45. Paul

August 24th, 2009 10:30 am

@eyehawk: that’s pretty cool!

46. asus

September 2nd, 2009 7:29 am

That’s an amazing piece of work, thanks for the tip. Could be the next web cult classic next to
.-= asus´s last blog ..Asus F8 F8Sn Driver =-.

47. kral oyun

September 11th, 2009 1:46 pm

The very first link you provide, to “Hilarious” for 4 Balls, is not the right link at all; it leads to “O.o” for Unpossible.

48. mageguy

September 12th, 2009 9:33 am

Here are the almost simplest designs for every level
(as in least pieces not including the pink ball)

lv1. Rolling Away http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=8526582 0pc
lv2. Reach Up http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9069391 1pc
lv3. Mind the Gap http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=8526642 2pc
lv4. Junkyard http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=8526917 3pc
lv5. The Wall http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9100911 2pc
lv6. On a Roll http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=8527329 1pc
lv7. Full Up http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9100962 2pc
lv8. Higher http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9100992 2pc
lv9. Around the Bend http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9069499 0pc
lv10. Up the Hump http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9101095 3pc
lv10. Up the Hump http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9108513 alternative
lv11. Mission to Mars http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9069618 1pc
lv12. Up the Stairs http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=8607724 4pc
lv12. Up the Stairs http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=8607855 alternative
lv13. Big Ball http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=8536582 3pc
lv14. Four Balls http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=8535759 5pc
lv15. Down Under http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=8607942 2pc
lv16. Awash http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=8536089 3pc
lv17. Handling http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=8535803 4pc
lv18. Tube http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=8607496 3pc
lv19. Back and Forth http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=8535795 5pc
lv20. Unpossible http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9084956 7pc
lv21. U-Turn http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9109454 4pc

Please help me find simpler solutions ;)

49. Paul

September 12th, 2009 11:43 am

@Mageguy: That’s a great list! I love that about Fantastic Contraption — many of the levels seem so complex, but can actually be solved pretty easily if you’re clever and creative enough. I especially liked the Up the Stairs one — that blew my mind.

50. mageguy

September 13th, 2009 12:48 am

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=8518413 – Handling

I love it when people do things completely differently

51. Paul

September 13th, 2009 10:37 am

@Mageguy. That’s insane! That’s gotta be one of the most elaborate solutions I’ve ever seen. I can’t imagine how many tries it took to get that right.

52. mageguy

September 19th, 2009 5:29 am

simpler solutions:

lv12. Up the Stairs http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9170322 3pc
lv19. Back and Forth http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9170401 4pc
is anyone reading this apart from Paul? come on guys, let’s find some simpler solutions!

53. mageguy

September 19th, 2009 5:30 am

lv3. Mind the Gap http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9170406 1pc

54. mageguy

September 19th, 2009 1:17 pm

i have been defeated…
http://www.groggie.com/blog/2008/08/fantastic-contraption-minimalism/
however someone claims to have seen a 2 piece solution to lv10 Up the Hump

55. mageguy

September 19th, 2009 1:51 pm

i have found fc heaven!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_pa7UHvjT4
the simplest full stop

56. mageguy

September 19th, 2009 2:11 pm

im so annoyed there arent any links for those designs cos i cant reproduce them

57. Rhonda from Garage Floor Coatings

October 20th, 2009 10:20 pm

You guys have posted some very good contraptions. It took a while to go through some of these links posted here.

58. skinthetic

November 2nd, 2009 2:47 pm

Wow, quite a lot of people showing their solutions…

59. John from Anger Management Tips

November 5th, 2009 8:36 pm

This game really is pretty addictive. And all the other recommendations have taken up an hour of my life!

60. Somebody Random

November 28th, 2009 10:45 am

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9786604
So close… but so far.

61. Somebody Random

November 28th, 2009 11:13 am

Stupidest working design ever.
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9786857

62. Somebody Random

November 28th, 2009 11:17 am

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9786889
This should NOT have worked.

63. Somebody Random

November 28th, 2009 11:19 am

This one just looks awkward.
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9786910

64. Somebody Random

November 28th, 2009 11:26 am

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9786966
At first you think it’s gonna work, then it gets SOOOO close, then almost flips over, then actually does work.

65. Somebody Random

November 28th, 2009 11:29 am

Again, SOOOO close.
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9787000

66. Somebody Random

November 28th, 2009 12:11 pm

This contraption definitely took the longest to build out of any that I’ve done so far.
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9787332

67. Somebody Random

November 28th, 2009 12:43 pm

This took FOREVER to perfect.
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=9787536

68. Paul

November 28th, 2009 4:44 pm

@Somebody random: Loving the submissions!

69. Ryan

December 13th, 2009 1:40 pm

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=3356991
Gravity at it’s best. Nothing huge but fun to watch.

70. Paul

December 14th, 2009 1:45 pm

@Ryan: Very cool! I love seeing the “green” Fantastic Contraption solutions.

71. Ben from portable closet

January 12th, 2010 6:21 pm

Oh, man, this is addictive. Thanks a lot, now I’ll never get any work done. Lol.

72. Rob from Dog Wheelchairs

February 15th, 2010 8:39 am

I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time playing Stairs of Heaven. Why? I don’t know. It’s just that there’s something there that won’t allow me to step away from my laptop. Shameful.

73. Mike from Shower Door Parts

February 18th, 2010 3:03 pm

Great post! Nice idea for a contraption.

74. John from Article Marketing

June 11th, 2010 5:28 pm

Thanks for the post. I’ve always been a physics geek so stuff like this really interests me. I’ll have to try some of these out.

-John

75. Ryan

August 14th, 2010 6:38 pm

I still think this is the best glitch ever… and i made it

76. Ryan

August 14th, 2010 6:38 pm

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=11038594

77. Richard from How To Videos

August 24th, 2010 7:53 pm

Fantastic Contraption is truly pretty awesome. I am not to artistically or spatially inclined, so this game actually helps me with skills that I suck at :)
Richard@How To Videos´s last [type] ..How To Tell If Someone Has Blocked You From Skype

78. Alex from Jocuri

September 17th, 2010 7:08 am

Pfui why did i clicked the link :( now I am bashing my head on the keyboard until i finish this game :(. You should have put a warning in the beginning of this post something like: “If you still want to get something done today don’t click the game link”.

79. Alex from Jocuri

September 17th, 2010 7:36 am

Simpler catapult http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=11115673 and I am still going strong :))

80. Patrick from Unlimited Reverse Phone Lookup

October 30th, 2010 9:30 pm

WOW!! So many Contraption Links. I have Bookmarked your page.Going through all those lings will take a little time I suppose.

81. Evan

January 8th, 2011 8:58 pm

a small tank to lift the ball in the big ball level.

82. gagagaga5656

May 13th, 2011 9:25 pm

this I think is pretty cool
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=11547024

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