Crazy Machines is a puzzle computer game created by a FAKT Software GmbH. Crazy Machines based many of its ideas on The Incredible Machine series of games. The player is given a set of mechanical components to construct a Rube Goldberg

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-style or Heath Robinson-style intricate machine to solve a goal and advance to the next puzzle in the game.

FAKT Software recently released the game on iOS

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Gameplay

In the game, players build imaginative machines that turn cranks, rotate gears, pull levers, and more to build a unique contraption. The player can solve more than 200 challenging puzzles and experiment with gears, robots, explosives, and more in a virtual lab. The game uses a physics engine to simulate various in-game variables such as air pressure, electricity, gravity, and particle effects.

External links

• PDF solutions for all officially released experiment packs
• Review in School Library Journal, September 2007.
• Review in Power to Learn.
• Machines is Up to the Challenge Washington Post, March 2006.