How to Waste Time at Work: Another Flash Game

[Salamok]

My tube climber:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=131020

Woo:  Just made one that doesn't need the 'cheat' stick wedged at the bottom:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=161954

i'll peek after I complete mine.


edit: BTW - I think this is everything a social flash game should be, not only is it fun to play but it is almost as much fun to see what everyone else's solutions were.

[Valmorian]

My tube climber:

Do it the easy way.. ;)
EDIT: Wrong link!
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=164092

[Ozzu]

Went back and did Awash again to see if I could just push the balls off the other side with enough brute force...

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=169013

Good times.

[Engels]

Heh heh, that's awsome. If you'd angled the nose down a bit, you coulda swum under the mess, which would have been cool too.

[Ragnoros]

Whats the opposite of elegant? this

[Cyrrex]

I disagree.  That was awesome.

[Salamok]

has anyone bought the full version and what do they think of it.  Just wondering if it is going to offer a significant amount of more play because the free version seems to offer enough to satisfy until border with the whole thing.  The build your own course thing sounds fun but not if no one you know can play it or even view it.

[Cyrrex]

I think it's in my nature to always attempt the simplest possible solutions (vehicles, brute force, etc.).  I was sure this one was going to work, until halfway through or so.  I find the failures to be just as fun as the successes:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=175076

Edit: and as expected, a slight modification made it work:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=175177

[Salamok]

I think it's in my nature to always attempt the simplest possible solutions (vehicles, brute force, etc.).  I was sure this one was going to work, until halfway through or so.  I find the failures to be just as fun as the successes:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=175076

that's awesome!  my bullshit meter moved a lil though as I can't imagine someone failing so magnificently by accident.

[Cyrrex]

heh, see edit above.  My brain is hardwired to find the easiest possible solution.  I do a lot of trial and error too, so I will run things dozens of times knowing they won't work fully, but just trying to see if I am on track.  Some of the failure are hysterical.  Like when you forget a key piece or two, hit start and then all the shit just falls straight down and does nothing.

I'm laughing so hard at myself right now that I have tears in my eyes.  At work.  Forgive my lack of originality, and enjoy the spectacle:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=175340

[Samwise]

My solution to Back & Forth which stumped me for quite a while.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=153512

That is fucking awesome.

[Samwise]

All right, I'm kinda proud of this one.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=176640

[Cyrrex]

All right, I'm kinda proud of this one.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=176640

You should be, that's amazing.

[Samwise]

I decided to try to reverse-engineer Ozzu's awesome design to better understand it, and came up with this variant where one vehicle does the whole job:  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=177075 (edit: made it better)

[Cyrrex]

Since I quickly become stumped at the two really hard ones, I am now dedicating my time to either really simple or really stupid solutions to some of the easier ones:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=177339

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=177482

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=178308

[Salamok]

just realized i goofed my timing is everything link up... after wasting tons of time on an overly complex approach i found a simple 1.

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=153248

[Ozzu]

I decided to try to reverse-engineer Ozzu's awesome design to better understand it, and came up with this variant where one vehicle does the whole job:  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=177075 (edit: made it better)

Wow. That's really cool. 

[Ozzu]

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=170778

Solution to Unpossible. Even though it's the 20th puzzle, I'm not sure it's the hardest. I had a harder time with the "Handling" puzzle.

[Engels]

I decided to try to reverse-engineer Ozzu's awesome design to better understand it, and came up with this variant where one vehicle does the whole job:  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=177075 (edit: made it better)

That is seriously smart stuff mang.

[Ozzu]

has anyone bought the full version and what do they think of it.  Just wondering if it is going to offer a significant amount of more play because the free version seems to offer enough to satisfy until border with the whole thing.  The build your own course thing sounds fun but not if no one you know can play it or even view it.

I bought the full version earlier tonight and it's pretty sweet. There are hundreds of user-designed levels. I just jumped right in and went to the hardest one I could find in the first few pages of levels. The one I found I'm sure will supply hours of entertainment. Think of the Tube level, except about halfway up the tube, it hangs a right, and a few lengths over from that, it goes up again.

How in the hell I'm supposed to do this, I have no clue, but it sounds like fun.

The good thing about the level list is that there's a rating for level quality and a separate rating for level difficulty. Good way to filter out the riffraff.

[Engels]

FINALLY managed this one

[lamaros]

FINALLY managed this one

MM, I have decided to skip a whole lot and start from your next one. Much easier than that one it seems:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=187862

[lac]

FINALLY managed this one

That sure took me a while too

[lamaros]

Trucks are too easy. Anyone got some fun limitations to make things doable but more creative?

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=189417

EDIT: Ahhh...

Just realised you can move the thingo you have to move...

That makes everything a bit easier too. Heh.

Some brilliant catapault efforts around, maybe time to try that.

This is not mine, but it is awesome: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=187455

[Salamok]

After 4 hours trying to get an extension ladder/rope trick thing going I finally gave up and built a tube crawler:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=192919

[Salamok]

My tube climber:

Do it the easy way.. ;)
EDIT: Wrong link!
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=164092

aaargh!  man talk about a blind spot!  I feel retarded ;(

[pxib]

I think I did Four Balls differently than you guys...

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=194589

Also, this, this, and this as minimalist solutions to early problems.

Edit: Here's somebody's minimalist Four Balls!

[Bunk]

I'm really happy with this really simple stair climber. The dangling box makes it constantly reorient, so even tough it takes ten minutes to clear this level, it never gets stuck.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=197235

[lamaros]

I'm really happy with this really simple stair climber. The dangling box makes it constantly reorient, so even tough it takes ten minutes to clear this level, it never gets stuck.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=197235

Hehe, the speed of that was so frustrating I decided to see how quickly I could get it done:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=197607

I found this amusing for the way to enters the box. http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=197737

[Bunk]

Big Ball frustrated me for the last hour, don't have a clue what to do, and I'm trying to avoid seeing how its been done. I even tried to brute force the bar under the ball using a 16 wheel vehicle, but no luck.
I can catapult a small wedge behind the ball, but its too small to help, or its too heavy to get there. I even found a way to bump the top ball and have it roll down, but that really doesnt help in any way :P

So Instead, I tried down under, which people were complaining about.

Amazingly, got this not so graceful solution in about 5 mins:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=198027

[Bunk]

Hehe, the speed of that was so frustrating I decided to see how quickly I could get it done:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=197607

Ok, thats cool. I never though of a golf machine.

[NiX]

My best effort on Four Balls - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=198090

Edit: My horrible solution to Back and Forth - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=199320

[Engels]

I think I did Four Balls differently than you guys...

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=194589

See, right there is smart! I lack this kind of imagination, and probably why I find the game awsome. It reminds me that I still have stuff I can learn, which at my age, is great.

[Ironwood]

Yeah.  The diversity of thinking - even around here - is staggering.

[lamaros]

Trying to see how many can be done without using wheels. More than I thought.

Other fun things to try are to make the thing stop in the area, not just get into it.

Mmmm I have to stop playing this.

Ok this one is stumping me: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=201185 (Down Under)

Can anyone think of a way to adjust what I've done there to make it doable w/o the wheel?

(managed it wheeless another way but cant get it to stop there: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=201090)

Bleh: I found someone who managed it. Fucking awesome, though: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=139121