OT: Time Waster for Friday

[Thomas Rogers]

Okay, my boss is away:

 

[Jeff Geist]

Can't figure out the 7th and 14th one.

 

[Thomas Rogers]

I think I got stuck on the 7th one too (named Half Pipe).

 

[Travis Munday]

The trick to #7 is to use the back of one of the half pipe...not the 'pipe' part.

 

[Jake Levin]

I got the 7th one, can't get the 14th

 

[Cory Richards]

I also got stuck on #7

 

[Jake Levin]

I used the pipe part on #7 and it worked

 

[Thomas Rogers]

I am still stuck on 7 and the last one, but got all the others....I will get 7...I know I will (I have been using the backs of the pipes as funnels and still no go).

 

[Jeff C]

I got 7 and 14. Look in my library if you're a cheater.

 

[Jeff Geist]

WOO HOO!!! Finally got #7.



I'm putting my solution which is different from Jeff C's in my library

 

[Jake Levin]

just goes to show there are a lot of different ways to solve a problem. My solution looked nothing like yours Jeff!

 

[Jeff C]

Cool, yeah, there's more than one way to milk a cat. Wait, hows that go? I just found it funny from an engineering stand point many of those would not work, unless the "spring" were powered or something, lol.

 

[Jeff Geist]

i cheated on #14. I had to know before I left work for the day. I will spend the last two minutes of my workday with guilt that I just had to know. I am ashamed of myself. My two minutes are over. Whew! Glad I got through that.:lol:

 

[Jeff C]

Ehh, it's okay. If someone else gets it. I'm curious to know how else to make it. That's my new goal, to find another way to do 14.

 

[Travis Munday]

I got it the same way Jeff did. I tried it a million different ways, before and after I knew it, and nothing worked. I just couldn't get the height/distance needed out of the spring with it placed any closer to the starting point.



But, never say never...there probably is a different way, but using the one half-pipe and the right nudge where they are in the solution seems to be the only way to get the ball anywhere close to the target.

 

[Dale Carlson]

got #7 - similar to hefhay's solution. Never even came close to Jeff C's answer. Interesting.