Fabulous online physics-based game

I give you: Fantastic Contraption

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to transport a little pink object into a goal area. To do this, you build a contraption out of five materials - wheels, either spinning (either direction) or freewheeling, solid sticks, and “water sticks” which can pass through other materials.

There’s no limit to the complexity of your machine aside from the space you have to build it in, so while the first level can be solved by simply moving the parcel to the right side of the hill and letting it bounce into the goal, I constructed a ridiculously overdone quasi-catapult device just as an example: Silliness. Oh, and that’s the other thing - you can save your machine and post links to it to amaze your friends. I’ll refrain from posting many examples for the moment to allow you the pleasure of coming up with your own solutions untainted by prior ideas. However, I would encourage the posting of particularly unique, elegant, complicated, or otherwise entertaining solutions.

Have fun, and don’t blame me for your total lack of productivity at work.

This one, on the other hand (for Around the Bend) is simplicity itself.

As was this one for Mind the Gap

In concept, they’re both simple, actually, but in execution, both took a lot of tweaking to make them actually work.

Out of curiosity, has anyone worked out a good solution for the last level? I’ve been having the most success using a clockwise wheel to extend a thin bridge, but I’ve had little luck building a vehicle that can actually traverse the bridge’s high grade.

Here’s my solution for Mind the Gap.

And here’s my solution to Junkyard.

Drive chains are remarkably useful.

I really should be getting back to work now.

Mission to mars – who needs rockets? :slight_smile:

My solution to Unpossible is a tethered catapult of sorts. It’s not very elegant, though. The dominant strategy appears to be some sort of deploying ramp with a tethered car driving up and swinging in.

And for your amusement, here’s a brute force solution to Awash. Takes a while, but (usually) gets there.

A solution toOn a Roll

A two-part solution to Fill 'er Up

This is a simple, but not really all that elegant, solution to Higher.

Fun game. Took me about 45 minutes, but I got through it. Unpossible turned out to be one of the simplest, IMO.

My solution wasn’t much less crude. :smiley:

Thanks for the link! It looks like my tethered catapult didn’t work because I put far, far too few wheels on it. :smiley:

I love the brute force solution to Awash. My solution always felt a little cheap to me.

I had fun making mine

I’m pretty proud of THIS solution.

I like this solution to Full-up. Spent a long time trying to get that damn ball to fill that damn hole first.

Daniel

This is fun, and looking at how others solved some levels, I guess I’m more one for the brute force approach… For the ‘Awash’ level, I constructed this little thing: Conveyordozer

I think this one rightly deserves the title of…

FAIL.

Huh, strange, it works this time. The last time I tried it, it got almost all the way to the top… a few balls got caught underneath, and it rolled all the way off the map.

THIS ONE took a lot of tinkering.

Heh, that’s clever. I tried a few variants of that, but could never get the proportions right.

Here’s my Mission to Mars (the 3 at the bottom are just weight, the other three actually drive it).