Fabulous online physics-based game

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

Here’s my latest use of the spring: Speeding Bullet

Daniel

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

…and another! It’s amazing how useful that freaky rocket effect is.

Daniel

[garygnu]

I’m rather proud of my solution to Back and Forth.
(and Tube)

[Pollux_Oil]

Hate the OP for introducing this game to me.

Seething hate.

Fun-filled enjoyment too, but seething hate.

[Lightnin]

The Unpossible is Possible!

Somehow, I don’t think it’s how we’re supposed to solve that last level… but hey, it works! Just make sure you give it enough time…

[fachverwirrt]

I’ve been having fun building the ugliest, most inefficient, slowest machine I could: I give you the five minute stair climber.

(Really, it works. Eventually.)

[Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical]

@fachverwirrt

I give you the five minute stair climber.

5:49. The last 1/4 inch was excruciating!

[Apex_Rogers]

@Lightnin'

Continuing my minimalist theme, I present:

Handling, done in five pieces.

You might enjoy my solution, also 5 pieces (I made this independent of yours) : Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game

[Bearflag70]

Battle up the stairs with a 14 Wheeler

[Pushkin]

@garygnu

How I got past Four Balls:

…I created a static ramp, then suspended counter-clockwise wheels above with paddles attached to push the target balls along…

Link

Urgh, I wish I could have been so ingenious, came up with this haphazard machine.

[Apex_Rogers]

Finally worked out a solution to Unpossible. This combines the rocket spastic action with an unfolding ramp. Make sure to watch it freak out at the end.

[Gary_Robson]

@Ale

Nothing gets you Higher than a good, old fashined rocket.

@Don't fight the hypothetical

Curious, too. Check out rocket 2.

Interesting. Are you both using Windows? On my Mac, those rockets just sit there with their central wheel spinning. They don’t jump around or launch or anything. I wonder if there’s a bug in the Windows Flash player that makes them do that. I’ll check them both on my Windows machine tomorrow.

@Pushkin

@NaturalBlondChap

And discovering you can actually move the red load around yourself kind of helps as well

You can do what?! :smack:

I agree. :smack: I had struggled for 1/2 hour with one of the levels, and accidentally realized I could move the load. Once I realized that, I solved it in a few minutes. sigh

@Usram

Most people seem to have approached Down Under differently to me. My solution doesn’t attach the pink ball to anything. It’s pretty fast, too:

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game

Very clever. I hadn’t thought of approaching it that way.

@ApexRogers

Finally worked out a solution to Unpossible. This combines the rocket spastic action with an unfolding ramp. Make sure to watch it freak out at the end.

I like the way you pulled that ramp over. It let you use a much smaller crawler than mine.

[Bearflag70]

@Bearflag70

Battle up the stairs with a 14 Wheeler

14 more wheels over the hump

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

I’m too lazy to check–has anyone done a two-piece solution to on a roll yet?

Daniel

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

Yep–looks like Lightnin posted an almost identical design. Oh well.

And dangit, they took away the freakout-wheel strategy! A few of my favorite designs are now broken.

Daniel

[Apex_Rogers]

@InvisibleWombat

I like the way you pulled that ramp over. It let you use a much smaller crawler than mine.

Thanks, yeah I initially tried a two-wheel vehicle but it tended to tip backwards when climbing the steepest part, and then didn’t have enough strength to pull the chain along. I added the trailer wheel as a stabilizer and then it helped boost it up quicker too.

[pandNH4]

Bet you can’t beat the simplicity of this:

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game

[Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical]

To make things a bit harder…

I was just scanning the forum. There’s a group who are building ‘green’ machines - gravity power only, no powered wheels. Every level has been beaten.

Here’s one of the green solutions for *Full Up. Sweet!

[sup]* by pojo[/sup]

[squeegee]

@Ale

Nothing gets you Higher than a good, old fashined rocket. :dubious:

@Don't fight the hypothetical

Curious, too. Check out rocket 2.

@Left Hand of Dorkness

Here’s my latest use of the spring: Speeding BulletDaniel

@Left Hand of Dorkness

…and another! It’s amazing how useful that freaky rocket effect is.

Daniel

None of these do anything interesting for me.

@InvisibleWombat

Interesting. Are you both using Windows? On my Mac, those rockets just sit there with their central wheel spinning. They don’t jump around or launch or anything. I wonder if there’s a bug in the Windows Flash player that makes them do that. I’ll check them both on my Windows machine tomorrow.

Yep, Me too. XP SP-2, Dual-Dual Core Xeon 3.2ghz 4GB. FireFox 2.0.0.16

The very last one from Daniel flops off of the ‘earth’ ball to the left after jittering for about 20 seconds.

[Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical]

@InvisibleWombat

Interesting. Are you both using Windows? On my Mac, those rockets just sit there with their central wheel spinning. They don’t jump around or launch or anything. I wonder if there’s a bug in the Windows Flash player that makes them do that.

No more rockets:

@From the website

"Gameplay Change: You can no longer attach a single stick to two points on the same wheel. This is the cause of many of the wacky-physics bugs that occur and also was fairly useless as the sticks didn’t interact with the terrain anyway. All previous designs you may have with this kind of setup will break (one end of the rod will fall off when you hit Go)."