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Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: Jim_Miller on October 22, 2008, 05:01:44 PM
Now heres a way to waste a LOT of time at work.
 
 
http://fantasticcontraption.com/ (http://"http://fantasticcontraption.com/")
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: Kitz Kat on October 22, 2008, 05:50:17 PM
Thanks,I just wasted an hour.I need a life.
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: oldraven on October 22, 2008, 08:17:40 PM
Argh! . Like I didn't have enough online addictions. I'm a Mechanical Drafter too. It's like I have no choice but to make it work.:punchballs:
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: *MAYHEM* on October 22, 2008, 09:22:41 PM
I got past Mission to Mars, but it's bed time. I'll try to get farther tomorrow.
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: Jim_Miller on October 22, 2008, 09:25:03 PM
I'm stuck on "tube" I have had a little luck getting "some" traction up the walls, but not enough. And when I do, my contraption is unstable and tilts to one direction or the other and falls through. I have noticed on the lower left wall there is a slight protrusion... but I have yet to be able to get any help from it yet.
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: Quietleaf on October 22, 2008, 10:55:46 PM
Wow, this is addicting. Here is my design for Big Ball:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3400149

Four balls was a PITA...I tried a cart, a conveyor belt, finally a rotor worked:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3404370

My Down Under solution:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3404931

Awash wasn't that hard...just needed a front bumper, lots of thrust, tracks, and a shovel, LOL...
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3405507

Tube was difficult, but it turned out to be not as nearly hard as Four Balls:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3429063

BackAndForth...Serious PITA...
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3433095

Unpossible wasn't IMpossible, but it took three hours...
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3441530

U-Turn was easy!
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3441796
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: HAVI on October 23, 2008, 12:43:43 AM
Well thanks, now I'm up past my bedtime.  Anyway I made past up-the-stairs so far.  I'm too tired to think right now, though.  Pretty fun.
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: *MAYHEM* on October 23, 2008, 04:39:10 AM
This game has been one of my favrites for years:
 
http://www.bigideafun.com/penguins/arcade/spaced_penguin/
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: Jim_Miller on October 23, 2008, 10:03:52 AM
Just an observation.. Comments appreciated

I notice of the people on the site that have found this interesting, addicting, amusing (whatever their reason)…. The youngest listed is 29, so were looking at about 30+ years of age.

Why is that?


BTW
STILL stuck on “Tube” :punchballs:
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: 88FoxBird on October 23, 2008, 05:43:05 PM
Rather interesting. I'm kinda stuck on mission to mars but have an idea for it though. Oh and you can change the youngest age to 20.:tg:
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: *MAYHEM* on October 23, 2008, 06:12:07 PM
Quote from: Jim_Miller;240186
Just an observation.. Comments appreciated
 
I notice of the people on the site that have found this interesting, addicting, amusing (whatever their reason)…. The youngest listed is 29, so were looking at about 30+ years of age.
 
Why is that?
 

BTW
STILL stuck on “Tube” :punchballs:

There's no machine guns, explosions or car creashes. That's why.
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: *MAYHEM* on October 23, 2008, 08:37:01 PM
Quote from: 88FoxBird;240225
Rather interesting. I'm kinda stuck on mission to mars but have an idea for it though. Oh and you can change the youngest age to 20.:tg:

Just keep flailing around, an a working solution will hit you sooner or later. ;)
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: DVP on October 23, 2008, 11:42:21 PM
Quote from: 88FoxBird;240225
Rather interesting. I'm kinda stuck on mission to mars but have an idea for it though. Oh and you can change the youngest age to 20.:tg:


Make a ring of the clockwise balls around the ball and connect them with sticks. then zig zag as much stick as you can to get a long enough lenth so when it swings out it will reach the pink
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: DVP on October 24, 2008, 02:36:24 AM
I think I just spent 3 an a half hours on this  thing!
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: 88FoxBird on October 24, 2008, 07:24:41 PM
I figured it out like 5 mins after I posted that. I'm on Handling right now.

EDIT-Figured out handling. http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3482431

tube- http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3482718
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: DVP on October 25, 2008, 12:16:11 PM
My work has it blocked!!!
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: 347Thunder on October 25, 2008, 06:51:26 PM
up the stairs sucks
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: 347Thunder on October 25, 2008, 06:52:54 PM
got it
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: Haystack on October 25, 2008, 10:54:22 PM
there's two I cant get. Handiling and down under. I got all the others.
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: HAVI on October 25, 2008, 11:43:01 PM
I'm currently working on 'back and forth'  I've been going in order without looking at any other's contraptions.  But after making it work, I look at some of the other's, and I'm thinking I'm just a dunce, lol.
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: fordguy545 on October 26, 2008, 01:47:29 AM
kind of reminds me of "THE INCREDIBLE MACHINE" that my brother let me play on his computer about 10 years ago, lol
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: V8Demon on October 26, 2008, 07:38:17 AM
I have this one saved under my favorites....it's been there for a couple of months.....I don't get to it too often though.  It's fun as hell.
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: HAVI on October 26, 2008, 11:46:21 AM
as to my previous post....case in point.

mine:  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3546628

their's:  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3539374

translate this to my car, it would work, but weigh about 1500 lbs. heavier, lol.
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: cougarXLS on October 26, 2008, 11:58:43 AM
LOL, this game reminds me of another I used to play a long time ago.... back in DOS days... Super Solvers: Gizmos and Gadgets (http://"http://www.classic-pc-games.com/pc/educational/super_solvers:_gizmos_and_gadgets.html")!!  That game was awesome :hick:
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: amooset on October 27, 2008, 12:42:29 AM
Yup, I'm addicted. Thanks ya jerk...  :D  So far I've finished all but the last two.  Does anyone have solutions for those yet?  In an unrelated note, "Braid" on xbox 360 requires the same kind of thinking and is another addictive game.
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: Loaded87IROC on October 27, 2008, 12:49:52 AM
Most addicting game ever.  I have solved all the puzzles now.  Here is mine for Unpossible http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3496108

Ed
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: 83Heritage on October 27, 2008, 07:52:36 AM
Here is mine for Unpossible  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3473615
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: Loaded87IROC on October 27, 2008, 07:56:35 AM
Looks like we had pretty similar solutions.
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: Jim_Miller on October 27, 2008, 11:45:57 AM
I’ve completed them all. It’s amazing to look at what I have done then to look at others and see how simple they COULD have been. A good example is this one for Tube
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3584957 (http://"http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=3584957")
I was trying to do this but I had the slope the wrong way (wheel on the left lower than the wheel on the right) not making use of the small radius on the right had side.
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: Loaded87IROC on October 27, 2008, 01:26:41 PM
I had an elevator design for that one too.  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3461405
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: HAVI on October 27, 2008, 05:37:57 PM
I've got them all done too.  Unpossible:  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3550409

U turn:  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3553683
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: *MAYHEM* on October 27, 2008, 07:36:39 PM
Quote from: 83Heritage;240499
Here is mine for Unpossible http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3473615

Love the chain drive ramp extention!!!!:bowdown: :bowdown:
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: *MAYHEM* on October 27, 2008, 07:52:35 PM
I tend to like simple solutions. This was mine for big ball:
 
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3602101
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: *MAYHEM* on October 27, 2008, 08:15:28 PM
I've been trying alternate solutions for all of them.
 
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3603071
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: Loaded87IROC on October 28, 2008, 04:10:49 AM
Im trying them over again with different solutions too.
U-turn  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3495990
Unpowered Higher http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3534793
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: DVP on October 29, 2008, 02:20:47 AM
Need another game like this now
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: oldraven on October 29, 2008, 06:25:09 AM
$10 and you can play a whole lot more levels. I guess some of the custom levels made by other players are insane.
Title: Fantastic Contraption
Post by: DVP on October 29, 2008, 12:51:31 PM
Quote from: oldraven;240838
$10 and you can play a whole lot more levels. I guess some of the custom levels made by other players are insane.



Might have to do that friday