# Cool Rube Goldberg game I found **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2007, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-rube-goldberg-game-i-found/393694 "2007-02-26T06:41:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-rube-goldberg-game-i-found/393694/41 "2007-03-04T00:50:47Z")
[QUOTE=enipla] $80 left for level 13. Can anyone beat $188 left for ‘Drop’ level 5? Or $252 left for ‘Catapult’ Level 17? Fun, fun game. [/QUOTE] I had $166 for drop. After reading your post, I found the $188 dollar solution, and I can’t beleive that worked. As dnooman said, I got $548 left on catapult. Oh, and I figured out how to do golf with leftover money. I was using 1 rubber segment for $100, and adding tension for $100. I guess I should have taken a hint from the name ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-rube-goldberg-game-i-found/393694/42 "2007-03-04T08:35:40Z")
Anyone beat Guillotine with more than $1074? It took me a long time to come up with a solution, and so was surprised they gave me so much extra money ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-rube-goldberg-game-i-found/393694/43 "2007-03-04T09:04:41Z")
I’m stuck on “Guillotine” at the moment. I’ve not experimented much with propulsion yet, perhaps I should. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-rube-goldberg-game-i-found/393694/44 "2007-03-04T09:14:42Z")
[QUOTE=dnooman] I’m stuck on “Guillotine” at the moment. I’ve not experimented much with propulsion yet, perhaps I should. [/QUOTE] if you want a hint read my other spoiler box about golf ---
**Author:** ![Yag\_Rannavach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/858c86/32.png) [@Yag\_Rannavach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yag_Rannavach)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-rube-goldberg-game-i-found/393694/45 "2007-03-04T09:44:34Z")
554 on catapult…but I’m going to sleep now, so I’ll have to try some of the others another day ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-rube-goldberg-game-i-found/393694/46 "2007-03-05T09:06:33Z")
I think one of the sweetest solutions was for the “Over Under” level, where I used a rocket and pouch. The rocket kind of gets stuck in the cloth for awhile, and finally gets free. There’s a detonator on the rocket, so it fails right as it flies above the goal. Another cool rocket one was the restricted materials where you only get rubber. I built a rubber “floor”, and a triangular pusher plate, with a rocket attached. The plate does a bunch of flips before it finally reaches the goal, and takes about 3 minutes to settle in. Talk about tweaking the parameters! Oh, and it’s possible to beat Golf, cheap! Just a single metal plate, placed freely as far up as possible. It falls down, hits the ball, and shoots it off to the right! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-rube-goldberg-game-i-found/393694.md?page=2)