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Get the little pink shapes in the big pink area. It sounds pretty easy, right? Wrong!

During the past two days, I’ve developed an addiction to the online game, Fantastic Contraption. In said game, the objective is to literally design and build a contraption that will move those little pink shapes into the big pink areas. You can roll them, you can toss them, you can squeeze them through, you can conveyer-belt them, etc…

This is one of the new physics based online games that have become incredibly popular recently. These games almost always involve creation, experimentation, gadgetry, and pretty much all follow the general laws of physics (i.e. things move, bounce, fall, and accelerate just as you would expect them to in real life). You can even see a list of 79 physics games here!!!

I DO NOT recommend these games to people who are trying to spend their time wisely.