Fun construction/physics online game

[Marmel]

Fun and addicting I should have said. You can save your designs, so share your best contraptions with the rest of us.

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://fantasticcontraption.com/)


And for a quick sample of my Brute Force method of busting through the wall:

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=86649)

[Marmel]

Here's another one on one of the easier levels I think.

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=86852)

[BrianD]

I am enjoying this. Pretty simple concept, but fun.

[Marmel]

Agreed. Some of the levels I don't even know where to begin. Like 'Tube' in particular and mission to Mars, I have some idea, but I can't even get close.

If anybody can figure out tube, please post it.

[BrianD]

Agreed. Some of the levels I don't even know where to begin. Like 'Tube' in particular and mission to Mars, I have some idea, but I can't even get close.

If anybody can figure out tube, please post it.

I'll see if I can get there. I'm on Higher at the moment.

[BrianD]

Mission to Mars. Not past it yet but here are my thoughts...
Surround the green circle with wheels and put the target on a long connected stick. When wheels should keep going around and hopefully swing the stick far enough. Thought 2 is to find a way to throw the ball.

Got it.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=87611

[Wolfpack]

BrianD is on the right track with Mission to Mars.

I've managed to get up to Big Ball, but this one has me stumped and I haven't even tried it yet. If you get here, just let the world run without implementing anything to see the issue.

[BrianD]

BrianD is on the right track with Mission to Mars.

I've managed to get up to Big Ball, but this one has me stumped and I haven't even tried it yet. If you get here, just let the world run without implementing anything to see the issue.

Big Ball is where I am currently stuck as well. At this point, I don't even have an idea of what to try.

[Commo_Soldier]

Agreed. Some of the levels I don't even know where to begin. Like 'Tube' in particular and mission to Mars, I have some idea, but I can't even get close.

If anybody can figure out tube, please post it.

Tube Solved (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=97757)

[CU Tiger]

Im stopped at big ball...


Only thing I can think of if you can roll off the same platform the blocker ball started from you would wedge the ball out of the corner...but Im not sure how to get up there yet....

[MrDNA]

I can't even mind the gap! Yeesh.

EDIT: OK, now I am stuck on the Mars. No Yeesh.

[KWhit]

I liked junkyard.

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=100183)

[Buccaneer]

This is what I call the Bulldozer

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=100353)

[KWhit]

Mission to Mars. Not past it yet but here are my thoughts...

Got it.
Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=87611)

Here's how I did it.

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=100642)

[BrianD]

Here's how I did it.

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=100642)

That is pretty cool. I'd never have though to do something like that.

[MrDNA]

Looking on their forum, there are about a million things I never would have thought to do. This game is making me sad.

[John Galt]

I finally figured out Big Ball. After trying a wedge (which totally fails) and a harpoon of the block behind the ball (it wouldn't pry the ball over), I applied a more straight-forward approach.

I built a machine to climb the ball. I used a pole vault to make it easier and had a reverse wheel to push off the ledge. By climbing the ball, it rolls out of the way and allows the block to drop in easily.

I've skipped around and have all the levels complete except Awash and Handling. I'm sure I could do Handling pretty easily, but I don't have the patience right now. So, I'm spending too much time on Awash. I really need to get back to work.

[John Galt]

Dola,

And I finally figured out Awash.

After trying to go on top of the balls a billion different ways, I successfully built a burrowing machine with an anteater nose and reverse wheels on top.

I may give Handling a try, but accuracy hasn't been my best skill in the game so I might just skip it.

Thanks Marmel for the fun game. This time I really do need to get back to work.

[illinifan999]

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=102496)

Here's one I did for Full-Up

[oliegirl]

We are having so much fun with this...though currently we are stuck on the stair level. I'm sure there is a fairly simple way to do it, but it's escaping us right now. NO SPOILERS! It's personal now, I'm going to beat that level one way or the other!

I might just have to fork over $10 to get to see the user created levels and keep playing :)

[illinifan999]

Reading the forums, there are some crazy ways to beat levels.

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=66023) (Skateboarder)

[Wolfpack]

I finally figured out Big Ball, but it was painful and I spent way too much time on it last night.

I ended up shoveling the ball out of the way, but it took several excrutiating runs to find out the correct spot to have the block hang in my contraption before it would be accepted as "passed" by the game. The thing would just dangle and swing right on the edge of the "pass" area but wouldn't get credit for being in the area.

[Commo_Soldier]

Here is how I solved Ball (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=107957)

[illinifan999]

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=114767)

Here's one for around the bend

[BrianD]

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=114767)

Here's one for around the bend

Mine was a lot less creative.
I created a long ramp starting from the orange ball and let the target ball roll down, bounce off the far wall, and roll into the goal.

[oliegirl]

OMG! I'm still suck on the stupid stair one...would someone PLEASE let me know how you solved it? I managed to get it ALL the way up to the top stair, made it over all the stupid little balls without getting pulled back down, and then it couldn't/wouldn't get up that last freaking stair!!!!

HELP!!!

[BrianD]

This website, and the other people's solutions specifically, show me just how un-practical and un-creative I am. Sort of depressing really.

[Groundhog]

This website, and the other people's solutions specifically, show me just how un-practical and un-creative I am. Sort of depressing really.

LOL. I'm in the exact same boat. :D

I got up to the 7th stage on my own, then was stumped on the 8th so I started looking at other people's solutions. Wow. Mine looked like something a caveman would piece together in comparison.

[BrianD]

Here is one I am a bit proud of on Four Balls:
Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=117163)

[Groundhog]

Here is one I am a bit proud of on Four Balls:
Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=117163)

Wow, I like.

[Buccaneer]

That's probably the coolest thing I have ever seen.

[Surtt]

just barely got the ball (takes awhile to come out of it's stall)

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=117542)

[KWhit]

I didn't cme up with this, but I think it's amazing:

Skateboarder:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=66023 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=66023)

[KWhit]

Another cool one for mind the gap (not mine):

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=203 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=203)

[Surtt]

Four Balls using a tow rope

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=118350)

[Wolfpack]

I've managed to get everyone but "Unpossible". However, I'm coming to the conclusion I don't have the imagination that some of you have. For instance, my Four Balls (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=105472) solution isn't very elaborate, but it is effective. :)

Some other solutions of mine:
Awash (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=105727)

Handling (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=105933)

Back and Forth (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=106531)

As you can see, my solutions went from rather elegant to finding any way of getting the job done, including dumb luck. :D

[BrianD]

I've managed to get everyone but "Unpossible". However, I'm coming to the conclusion I don't have the imagination that some of you have. For instance, my Four Balls (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=105472) solution isn't very elaborate, but it is effective. :)

Some other solutions of mine:
Awash (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=105727)

Handling (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=105933)

Back and Forth (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=106531)

As you can see, my solutions went from rather elegant to finding any way of getting the job done, including dumb luck. :D

All of your solutions seem pretty efficient and effective. They even look a lot more pretty than mine do.

[johnnyshaka]

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=127736)

Uglier than sin but it worked....eventually!!!

EDIT: This is Handling just in case somebody doesn't want watch a spoiler.

[John Galt]

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=127736)

Uglier than sin but it worked....eventually!!!

EDIT: This is Handling just in case somebody doesn't want watch a spoiler.

That's great. The delayed roller on the top is amazing. I'd never considered something like that in any solution.

[Radii]

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=127736)

Uglier than sin but it worked....eventually!!!

EDIT: This is Handling just in case somebody doesn't want watch a spoiler.


That's awesome.

[johnnyshaka]

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=128769)

Here's one for Back and Forth.

[Buccaneer]

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=127736)

Uglier than sin but it worked....eventually!!!

EDIT: This is Handling just in case somebody doesn't want watch a spoiler.


That's just f'n brilliant.

[johnnyshaka]

Hold on there...that was an evolving design...took some time to get at triangle right where I needed it and then the "rollercoaster" ride at the end was on a whim to see what would happen.

Brilliant...hardly...more luck than anything!!

[johnnyshaka]

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=129739)

And the Unpossible.

[John Galt]

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=129739)

And the Unpossible.

It's strange, but your Unpossible and Back and Forth solutions are pretty close to the ones I used. I think I fully tethered my chain in Unpossible, but the concept was the same.

[johnnyshaka]

It's strange, but your Unpossible and Back and Forth solutions are pretty close to the ones I used. I think I fully tethered my chain in Unpossible, but the concept was the same.

Both of my solutions were more or less accidental.

Back and Forth...I was simply trying to get over the ball to see if the ball would essentially shoot out the other end after passing over it. Well, I never got over the ball but instead ended up "pulling it" and that worked even better.

And for Unpossible...once I figured out how to get up top I was actually trying to figure out a way to "around the world" the ball like a yo-yo but then my chain ended up getting caught and my vehicle narrowly missed landing in the goal. A little tweak, and voila.

[Surtt]

Not very elegant but it worked

Unposible.

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=131936)

[Groundhog]

Damn Big Brother... I was happily playing away at this at work during downtime over the past couple of days, and now it got blocked. :(

[Cringer]

Crap, I just got done with Four Balls, some of these others from you guys rock though.

My Four Balls solution... Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=132745)

[Buccaneer]

Crap, I just got done with Four Balls, some of these others from you guys rock though.

My Four Balls solution... Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=132745)

You could call that one the Sh1thole. ;)

[Groundhog]

Four Balls drove me insane last night. I had a duel catapult thing going on that was getting all but the very last object home, as it was flying over the target. The slightest modification to my design caused the whole thing to fail, and at that point I started looking at how bloody impressive other people's designs were for that stage (drawbridges, delayed chains, etc.) that I got completely disheartened with my archaic designs and gave up.

[Wolfpack]

Yes! Finally, I can go to sleep.... :D

Unpossible (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=135808)

[johnnyshaka]

Atta boy!

[Surtt]

Finally got the tube
It was by far the hardest for me...

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=144311)

[albionmoonlight]

I think that I might have been playing a little too much. I just wrote and sent an email, and my brain expected the lines of text to start falling as soon as I hit send.

[Tasan]

Anyone have anything for Up the Stairs? I just can't seem to get this one.

[Tasan]

Okay I just solved it, and I have to say I liked my idea, but it kinda came about by accident.

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=151571)

[Surtt]

Anyone have anything for Up the Stairs? I just can't seem to get this one.

Kind of bland, but it worked...

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=151588)

Here is a little more interesting one...

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=148175)

[Tasan]

Okay I liked my "Big Ball" too. disregard the little cart in the back, its a leftover from another idea I didn't get around to deleting.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=151655

[Tasan]

Holy cow, my four balls turned into a bastard child of about 5 different ideas.

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=152052)

[Commo_Soldier]

So how many people have actually paid the $10 for this game? Also is it really worth the money or are almost all the good levels included for free?

[johnnyshaka]

So how many people have actually paid the $10 for this game? Also is it really worth the money or are almost all the good levels included for free?

I just may drop the $10 to see as I really enjoyed the game.

[gstelmack]

I bow to some of the designs you guys have come up with. I'm clearly not that clever...

[Tasan]

Here's my awash, it takes forever, but gets there:

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=161353)

[Tasan]

Sorry if I'm spam posting or something, but this is just fun and I like sharing my odd solutions:

Handling
Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=161737)