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Fantastic Contraption
I’ve been playing this thing nearly nonstop all weekend. It’s really an interesting game: Using your knowledge of physics, the tools they give you, and your own innovation, you must move the pink block you start off with into the goal zone. While it sounds educational, it’s really just plain fun. Once you get the hang of the game, it’s neat to see what kind of creative designs you can come up with.

A sample contraption that shoots the pink ball into the goal zone

You can use rotating wheels to help move the block, you can use rods to attach to wheels or your block. You could build a giant tower or a giant cart. You can create separate machines.

A lot of these can be solved very easily using just a wheel or two and a rod, but I think the more elaborate and creative machines deserve some extra props, if only for the large amount of creativity it takes to make some of these.

Ever since I saw this posted on a forum, I’ve seen some really interesting and creative designs. I made a post showing my favorite 50, and here are some more of my favorites that might help give you ideas:

1. A clever pulley system
2. A well-crafted catapult
3. Actually, why even use the catapult? Just use the environment.
4. A spider to walk over everything. It’s like something from your nightmares.
5. Rolling the giant ball to get there
6. A simple but clever design. This is one of the hardest levels, solved so easily.
7. Using two separate machines
8. An extremely elaborate machine. This is perhaps the most impressive I’ve seen.

Also pretty entertaining to watch are when they just plain don’t work.

1. This one shows how the water bonds can break if they have too much weight attached.
2. And sometimes they just go crazy. Check this one.
3. A clever design that just couldn’t make it.

I tried my hand at this and came up with solutions for all of them. I’m not an engineer or rather creative, so none of mine are anything incredible, but I like watching these two run:

1. Using two separate machines to roll the ball where I want it.
2. Counter-weights can be a huge help.

Try your hand at it, let’s see what you can come up with! I’m warning you, though, it’s really addictive!

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