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[Frank]

If you get fed up of messing about with the Lotto and want a bit of educational fun, try this addictive physics/engineering game.
Fantastic contraption is a brilliant on line game. The object is simple, you have to get a pink item of cargo from the left side of the screen to the right hand target area (also coloured pink). You have at your disposal wheels and links which you have to join together to make a vehicle or contaption to overcome the obstacles in your way. The interactive tutorial (click 'start here') explains it better than me. It is important when creating a link that you join it exactly to the right spot or the thing comes apart.
What I like about this is there is no time limit, you can have as many goes as you like and go back and change the design until it works. Great educational tool for children (and me ). when you have solved a puzzle you can save the result as a link, then paste it in a forum to show friends how you did it. Theres a forum where you can look at other peoples solutions, get cheats etc.
I think this is great educational tool for children as it behaves exactly like it would in the real world. Fantasticcontraption.com