Free Game of the Week - Fantastic Contraption

Scabrous Birdseed · 29-07-2008, 23:01:45

Marvellous and bloody difficult physics-based puzzler, where you're meant to solve a series of more and more demented tasks through using just wheels and rods. Love the open-ended nature of it.

http://fantasticcontraption.com/

Scabrous Birdseed · 30-07-2008, 22:21:18

I've yet to solve 13, 14, 16, 19 and 20.

MDA · 31-07-2008, 22:31:14

the 4 balls one is hard

I've tried building treadmill, and a basket, and neither has worked

Immortal Wombat · 01-08-2008, 03:37:17

13 and 16 (big ball and awash) can be solved much the same way - get underneath.

I haven't got 14, 18, 19 either. Need anti-grav or something.

Scabrous Birdseed · 01-08-2008, 09:37:14

I've only got four balls (#14) and unpossible (#20) left now. #20 especially irks me, I can't figure it out. If I could only get a car onto that roof with a chain attached...

Scabrous Birdseed · 01-08-2008, 10:24:35

I got #14 now using a third possible approach from MDA's.

MDA · 01-08-2008, 11:28:54

Woo, I got Handling (17). The treadmill/flail approach *almost* works on 4 balls. I get the feeling if I left if run for hours, I might get it, but that's unlikely to be the intended solution.

Scabrous Birdseed · 01-08-2008, 12:00:41

I doubt there's a single intended solution - if you look at what other people have used they range from baskets/dredges to treadmills and a million different shooting solutions. One guy even did it with only six pieces!

Beta1 · 01-08-2008, 13:47:46

4 balls is evil - I've tried conveyor belts, watermill type things ramps, nothing works.

Beta1 · 01-08-2008, 14:06:46

finally did it with a conveyor belt underneath and two wheels with scoops above the belt to give them a final kick over the end,

Scabrous Birdseed · 01-08-2008, 15:50:22

My solution was a "windmill" of flicking catapult thingies – though getting the placement and angles right was just pure chaotic luck.

Beta1 · 01-08-2008, 17:07:02

I haver now wasted a afternoon on this game

Scabrous Birdseed · 02-08-2008, 00:44:59

Whoo! It's a quarter to three in the morning and I finally solved puzzle #20! I'm done.

Beta1 · 03-08-2008, 20:05:08

I have now paid my $10 for the full version and wasted an entire weekend playing this game.

I paid full price for mass effect two weeks ago and I think I've spent an equal amount of time on this.

Scabrous Birdseed · 03-08-2008, 20:28:50

31-07-2008, 22:31:14	#3
MDA Unintelligible at any speed. Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Make no excuses. Support no ideology. You're EVIL. Just do it.	the 4 balls one is hard I've tried building treadmill, and a basket, and neither has worked __________________ Who are you when you're alone? A Fuckwit.

01-08-2008, 03:37:17	#4
Immortal Wombat carbon-based Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: kthxbye	13 and 16 (big ball and awash) can be solved much the same way - get underneath. I haven't got 14, 18, 19 either. Need anti-grav or something. __________________ $%?#

01-08-2008, 09:37:14	#5
Scabrous Birdseed for your usergroup and post count Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Among the clouds	I've only got four balls (#14) and unpossible (#20) left now. #20 especially irks me, I can't figure it out. If I could only get a car onto that roof with a chain attached... __________________ Birdseed's Tunedown

01-08-2008, 10:24:35	#6
Scabrous Birdseed for your usergroup and post count Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Among the clouds	I got #14 now using a third possible approach from MDA's. __________________ Birdseed's Tunedown

01-08-2008, 11:28:54	#7
MDA Unintelligible at any speed. Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Make no excuses. Support no ideology. You're EVIL. Just do it.	Woo, I got Handling (17). The treadmill/flail approach almost works on 4 balls. I get the feeling if I left if run for hours, I might get it, but that's unlikely to be the intended solution. __________________ Who are you when you're alone? A Fuckwit.

29-07-2008, 23:01:45	#1
Scabrous Birdseed for your usergroup and post count Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Among the clouds	Free Game of the Week - Fantastic Contraption Marvellous and bloody difficult physics-based puzzler, where you're meant to solve a series of more and more demented tasks through using just wheels and rods. Love the open-ended nature of it. http://fantasticcontraption.com/

30-07-2008, 22:21:18	#2
Scabrous Birdseed for your usergroup and post count Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Among the clouds	I've yet to solve 13, 14, 16, 19 and 20. __________________ Birdseed's Tunedown

01-08-2008, 12:00:41	#8
Scabrous Birdseed for your usergroup and post count Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Among the clouds	I doubt there's a single intended solution - if you look at what other people have used they range from baskets/dredges to treadmills and a million different shooting solutions. One guy even did it with only six pieces! __________________ Birdseed's Tunedown

01-08-2008, 13:47:46	#9
Beta1 [works only in german, sorry] Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: here	4 balls is evil - I've tried conveyor belts, watermill type things ramps, nothing works. __________________ I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster...

01-08-2008, 14:06:46	#10
Beta1 [works only in german, sorry] Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: here	finally did it with a conveyor belt underneath and two wheels with scoops above the belt to give them a final kick over the end, __________________ I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster...

01-08-2008, 15:50:22	#11
Scabrous Birdseed for your usergroup and post count Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Among the clouds	My solution was a "windmill" of flicking catapult thingies – though getting the placement and angles right was just pure chaotic luck. __________________ Birdseed's Tunedown

01-08-2008, 17:07:02	#12
Beta1 [works only in german, sorry] Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: here	I haver now wasted a afternoon on this game __________________ I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster...

02-08-2008, 00:44:59	#13
Scabrous Birdseed for your usergroup and post count Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Among the clouds	Whoo! It's a quarter to three in the morning and I finally solved puzzle #20! I'm done. __________________ Birdseed's Tunedown

03-08-2008, 20:05:08	#14
Beta1 [works only in german, sorry] Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: here	I have now paid my $10 for the full version and wasted an entire weekend playing this game. I paid full price for mass effect two weeks ago and I think I've spent an equal amount of time on this. __________________ I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster...

03-08-2008, 20:28:50	#15
Scabrous Birdseed for your usergroup and post count Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Among the clouds	__________________ Birdseed's Tunedown

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