Fantastic Contraption - Fun Online Game & Shareable Creations

[Janus]

I found a fun little internet game called "Fantastic Contraption".

The goal is to get one or more objects from one area of the playing area to another by a contraption that you make from selected components.

A simple example:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=535704
(hit Play, then continue and then start.

The object here is to get both of the small objects in the goal area at the same time.

You are limited to building you contraption in the gray construction area.

The challenges get harder as you go up the levels.

If you register, you can save your contraption and will get a link that you can share with others.

Here's a couple of examples of contraptions I've created:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=542147

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=550685

Have some fun, and share your creations.

 

[rootX]

There's similar one on miniclip.

I loved both!

 

[B. Elliott]

Good find Janus. It's actually pretty fun (just wasted about two hours)


I thought i'd never get past this one...

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=597677

 

[Andre]

My first attempt (without checking others)

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=602920

 

[Gokul43201]

My first attempt (without checking others)

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=602920

Wow! That's an incredibly complicated solution. Isn't it easier to just build a long cart that will span the gap.

Has anyone played: The Incredible Machine?

 

[rootX]

My first attempt (without checking others)

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=602920

It looks really simple!

Here's mine

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=608595

(little complicated)

 

[rootX]

Here's one another similar game

http://www.miniclip.com/games/magic-pen/en/

I stumbled upon it but realizing that I am wasting tons of time on Stumble and this, I deleted it from bookmarks :(

 

[Janus]

Once you get the hang of it, you can try for an extra challenge.
For some of the problems you can try not only to get the object into the goal area, but to keep it there.

My example:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=632791

 

[Janus]

Good find Janus. It's actually pretty fun (just wasted about two hours)


I thought i'd never get past this one...

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=597677

Here's two solutions I've come up with:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=587199

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=639100

 

[DaveC426913]

Well, there's two hours of sleeptime I'll never get back...

 

[Sakha]

That tube level seemed impossible. But some thinking and I came up with this.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=642356"
Pretty good game.
Im still stuck in the Handling level.

 

[Gokul43201]

My first attempt (without checking others)

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=602920

It looks really simple!

Here's mine

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=608595

(little complicated)

Here's simple: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=642791

 

[Janus]

That tube level seemed impossible. But some thinking and I came up with this.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=642356"
Pretty good game.
Im still stuck in the Handling level.

Here's what I came up with for the tube:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=543480

Handling is a toughy, but can be done.

 

[humanino]

I made a stupid design, thought it really was stuck, but it finally made it once I was not even watching anymore.
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=643468
This game is so funny.

 

[Gokul43201]

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=543480

Neat trick with the connecting rods on the rims!

 

[Andre]

Here's simple: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=642791

Sure, you can make it efficient

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=645521

But more fun is when things that appear not to work out, do so still

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=646282

 

[Gokul43201]

But more fun is when things that appear not to work out, do so still

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=646282

Definitely!

Now can you make it stay in the goal box?

Edit: Here: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=646615
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=646694

 

[Andre]

Definitely!

Now can you make it stay in the goal box?

Certainly.

Counter rotating wheels = no wheels?

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=652768

 

[Gokul43201]

But dynamic equilibrium is more fun than static equilibrium!

 

[Andre]

Agreed, I'll try and work on a dynamic equilibrium with the erratic triangular ball kicker.

 

[humanino]

I made this guy, who climbs stairs OK, but really has a hard time against rolling on balls. I like how it's almost there, then close to die, then gets back up, and falls again, and finally makes it. This is a whole story

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=667894

 

[Gokul43201]

He didn't make it when I just played it. He fell off into the eternal abyss.

Edit: But he makes it if you remove wheels #2 and #5.

 

[Janus]

Walking up the stairs:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=549061

 

[humanino]

He didn't make it when I just played it. He fell off into the eternal abyss.

Now that's really strange ! That means, each player might have his/her own initial random seed !?

Edit: But he makes it if you remove wheels #2 and #5.

I have lost quite some time trying to make silly design work by tuning them. Usually, I try a bunch of different designs, some of them work quite easily, other don't, but I really like to try to fix those who don't. For a physicist, it seems that fine tuned structure is really ugly. I love the "story aspect".

One can prevent the fall into abyss by adding some other structure, like in
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=667894

Example of design which I lost quite some time on :
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=670942
Obviously, this is the wrong approach. But I just like it

 

[humanino]

Example of design which I lost quite some time on :
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=670942
Obviously, this is the wrong approach. But I just like it

There ! :rofl:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=671501

 

[NeoDevin]

I chose to race the big ball in that one.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=672568

 

[humanino]

I chose to race the big ball in that one.

That's also the first solution I managed to make work.

 

[tribdog]

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=672932"
This one turned out to be easier than I thought it would be, once I got my "hook" working

 

[tribdog]

Wow, I just accidently clicked on the "other players designs" link. I thought you had to pay for that option. Some of these solutions are so elegant. Completely different than anything I could have ever come up with.

 

[Janus]

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=672932"
This one turned out to be easier than I thought it would be, once I got my "hook" working

This is how I did it:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=545306

 

[tribdog]

This is how I did it:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=545306

I have to remember that I don't have to connect everything together. It's almost always more elegant looking in my opinion when you do it in stages and "drop" the parts once they have been used.

 

[Hurkyl]

There's some weird physics going on in this. In "up the stairs" I was experimenting with some stuff... I put a yellow and a blue wheel on the ground, connected them at all four outer points (top to top, right to right, etc), put the red wheel behind, and connected that to the center of the yellow wheel.

After some time, the physics starts to go crazy, and the contraption somehow launches itself at high velocity into space!

Aha, here's the link: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=676058

Some of the previous ones, I've pretty much just brute forced the wheels through, and dragged the red one along behind. :tongue: Though I admit I enjoyed making a catapult in that one level...



Aha, finally past the stairs. My contraption just wouldn't make it all the way up... so I built another contraption to give it an extra push from behind. http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=676511

 

[Janus]

Solving level 20.

Oddly this takes advantage of what seems to be a glitch in the game in order to keep it in the zone.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=675940

 

[BobG]

On Reaching Up, it won't stay in the goal forever, but it stays for a long time.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=680828

Pretty cool game. First time at work, I just went through a few levels the obvious way. Kind fun to come up with something a little more interesting.

Why not just lift the square up with a crane?
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=682114

 

[Janus]

There's some weird physics going on in this. In "up the stairs" I was experimenting with some stuff... I put a yellow and a blue wheel on the ground, connected them at all four outer points (top to top, right to right, etc), put the red wheel behind, and connected that to the center of the yellow wheel.

After some time, the physics starts to go crazy, and the contraption somehow launches itself at high velocity into space!

Aha, here's the link: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=676058

Some of the previous ones, I've pretty much just brute forced the wheels through, and dragged the red one along behind. :tongue: Though I admit I enjoyed making a catapult in that one level...


You could have added a wooded rod to connect the "axles", used two drive wheels, and had the red wheel ride on top:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=679165

or two wheels work fine with just a little traction:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=679786
Aha, finally past the stairs. My contraption just wouldn't make it all the way up... so I built another contraption to give it an extra push from behind. http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=676511

You could have added a wooden rod to connect the "axles", used two drive wheels, and had the red wheel ride on top:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=679165

or two wheels work fine with just a little traction:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=679786

or... Just bypass the stairs all together:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=681790