Stalking Venus

If you’re old enough to remember DOS games, then you’ll probably have played The Incredible Machine.

Well, this is very similar, only it’s a simplified online version called Fantastic Contraption. The idea is to get the little red thing into the other little red thing. This isn’t nearly as simple as it sounds.

The reason it’s not so simple, is that you can only build things in the workshop, which is the light blue area you see above. So in this example, you have to get the little red ball into the red ‘Goal’ box on the right. By default, when this contraption is started, gravity makes the ball drop, so you have to use the available tools to create conveyor belts, ramps, catapults, bridges and slides to get the ball across.

Some of the levels seem truly impossible (see below), but where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Check it out at FantasticContraption.com – but be warned: It’s incredibly addictive!