Fantastic Contraption - Time Waster of the Week

OK, enough of this baby stuff ;) Time for some good old fashioned internet time wasting fun. I discovered Fantastic Contraption last week.


Fair warning: You will end up wasting at least a hour of your day if you visit this link.

It's a online Rube Goldberg machine maker. The object is to get a ball or block into a scoring zone using a few basic building blocks. You are given:

1. Clockwise and CCW rotating wheels
2. Idler wheels
3. Water Linkages (they can pass through other objects)
4. Stick Linkages (they cannot pass through other objects)

Some are pretty easy. Some look to be impossible. The coolest things is that there are an infinite number of solutions to a puzzle. Once you solve a puzzle you can see other people's solutions (some of which can only be described as genius)

Max loves this game as well. Makes the engineer daddy so proud! Here are a couple of Max's and my solutions to some of the puzzles.

Just click the START button in the upper left corner:

Catapult

Ramp Jump