I ran across this flash game while I was killing some time during lunch. It’s quite addictive (and frustrating), and really appeals to the engineer in me. What I really like about it is the open-ended nature of it. There are only five building tools, and other than that you can do whatever you like to solve each puzzle. It’s not like most puzzle games where you have to work out the one and only one meticulous solution that the creator had in mind. Still, I can’t get past puzzle 16: Awash. If someone else figure it out, let me know.
Also, if you’re like me and want to play it full-screen, you can do it with this link here.
Update: I beat #16. You can see the machine I built here.
Wow, that’s quite a solution. I regularly get the impression that I am not an engineer whenever I see other solutions. I want to know if you can use fantastic contraption to build an induction gun to fire little wheels an a given trajectory.