{"id":612,"date":"2008-11-09T14:14:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T18:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2008-11-09T14:14:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T18:14:26","slug":"playing-fantastic-contraption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Playing Fantastic Contraption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago Sheeping Annie blogged about having to stay in her classroom in the evening because it was a parent conference day. All her conferences had been scheduled for the afternoon, so she was very bored. Someone commented, &#8220;go play <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fantasticcontraption.com\/\">Fantastic Contraption<\/a>.&#8221; I finally had a chance to try it today, and I have to agree &#8212; it is a blast! I don&#8217;t know if I will completely stop playing solitaire, but it might happen.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to design mechanisms which will move an object from its starting position to a goal. You build a mechanism by dropping powered wheels (choose a direction for it to rotate) and unpowered wheels into a work area and connecting them to each other and to the payload object. Then you click &#8220;start&#8221; and watch to see if your gizmo can get past all the obstacles.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s my <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/FantasticContraption.com\/?designId=4078658\">design<\/a> to solve the puzzle &#8220;Junkyard.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago Sheeping Annie blogged about having to stay in her classroom in the evening because it was a parent conference day. All her conferences had been scheduled for the afternoon, so she was very bored. Someone commented, &#8220;go play Fantastic Contraption.&#8221; I finally had a chance to try it today, and I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=612\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Playing Fantastic Contraption&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}