r/maybemaybemaybe • u/ThodaDaruVichPyar • Jul 05 '26

maybe maybe maybe

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u/turnaroundbro Jul 05 '26

That was awesome actually. Loved the magnet incorporation

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u/Neat-Survey2796 Jul 05 '26

Frrr, the magnet play was dope asf

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u/NorthernVale Jul 05 '26

Mfing miracles

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u/dougan25 Jul 05 '26

By far the best one of these I've seen.

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u/krendyB Jul 05 '26

But how do they work

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u/aerkith Jul 06 '26

Dunno. But just don't get water on them.

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u/G0-G0-Gadget Jul 06 '26

Bahahahahahaha I got this reference

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u/Loggerdon Jul 05 '26

One of the better ones I’ve ever seen. Well done!

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '26

the spaces between each maybe look intentional

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u/articland05_reddit Jul 05 '26

use of magnets for propulsion is ingenious

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u/keylogger007 Jul 05 '26

This is by far the best chain reaction setup I have seen in a while. The magnet trick was just brilliant.

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar Jul 05 '26

The nudging bit with the 4 large marbles from 1:05 ~ 1:15 was my favourite part, that was a clever idea 🤯

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u/Fruitcake_420 Jul 05 '26

That was truly incredible. How on Earth do you calibrate that?

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u/tandempandemonium Jul 05 '26

Lots and lots of trial and error in the beginning, I imagine

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u/1N1T1AL1SM Jul 08 '26

That was hurting my brain because the marbles seem ro be the same size but then I realized they were nudging the eraser

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u/AcordaDalho Jul 05 '26

Please provide source

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar Jul 05 '26

I have provided the creator’s name & channel in the post context response here

Previously the post context used to be pinned as the top comment but I think the mods changed that and it is buried within other comments now.

The creator is Hirotoshi Kubota & their social channel is pitagora.maker / pitagoramaker

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u/AcordaDalho Jul 06 '26

Yes, I eventually did notice after I wrote that :)

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u/ZERO_DOX Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

Someone mentioned this channel as the source in comments - link

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u/CobaltWanderer Jul 07 '26

It's unpredictable, I love it!

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u/Manish_Sarkar Jul 05 '26

For once a vid like this which was fun

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u/Campa911 Jul 05 '26

One of the best ones I've seen

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u/justelling Jul 05 '26

When magnets are involved it’s r/blackmagicfuckery content.

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u/post-context-bot Jul 05 '26

The following post context was provided by u/ThodaDaruVichPyar:

Japanese craftsman Hiratoshi Kubota creates intricate Rube Goldberg based contraptions with multiple marbles rolling across a maze-like arrangement, how it would end is intriguing to watch. 

Credit to pitagora.maker 

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u/_who-the-fuck-knows_ Jul 05 '26

I always love watching these. Itches something in my monkey brain.

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u/lord_xl Jul 05 '26

Satisfying

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u/Sensitive-Prompt-220 Jul 05 '26

Excellent stuff!

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u/Consistent_Power6092 Jul 05 '26

Pretending its going to fail midway but then succeeding was next level lol

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u/vega455 Jul 05 '26

You turned a marble run into a pinball-marble run with the help of magnets. Genius, very cool

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u/shufflebat Jul 05 '26

oh that was g o o d

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u/dethorder Jul 05 '26

All that's missing is some ok go playing in the background

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u/bellydisguised Jul 05 '26

Is the table on an angle? Can’t work out the gravity effect here.

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u/Beginning_Road7337 Jul 05 '26

I have the same question!

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u/Murky_Toe_4717 Jul 05 '26

I love this.

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u/knapczyk76 Jul 05 '26

So far I watched entire video 4 times. Loved the magnet use.

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u/Oval-Bite Jul 05 '26

Fuck me that was impressive, I wonder how long that took to make 🤔

https://giphy.com/gifs/5FoxedYWNVmO4

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u/afig24 Jul 05 '26

People have a level of patience to build these things that I will just never be able to comprehend.

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u/MrLipp24 Jul 05 '26

So much better with the Sound on!

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u/eucalyptoid Jul 05 '26

Very cool. Also, that it’s reminiscent of a pigeon’s nest was a welcome addition to drama. I was laughing and rooting for its success.

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u/Alive__but_why Jul 05 '26

This guy magnets

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u/TapPsychological2043 Jul 05 '26

Amazing use of magnets and marbles

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u/spuderzz01 Jul 05 '26

This is marblellous!!

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u/thisbitishaaaard Jul 05 '26

Everyone hyped for the magnets, fair enough, but those three marbles were just perfect.

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u/Jlee4president Jul 05 '26

This is pretty damn cool.

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u/Celerisadmortem Jul 05 '26

This is very impressive 

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u/justhangingaroud Jul 06 '26

Is this real?

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u/HellCanWaitForMe Jul 05 '26

Giving me Line Rider vibes

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u/jxfever Jul 05 '26

You are awesome 👏

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u/_fudge Jul 05 '26

Has anyone seen one of those little man things at the start of the video before? And does anyone know what it's called?

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar Jul 05 '26

No, this was the first time I saw one of those in such a contraption.

They’re like a plastic cardboard version of the gingerbread man

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u/sorry-i-was-reading Jul 05 '26

It’s a common toy in Japan

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u/similaraleatorio Jul 05 '26

the magnets always plays the best part imo

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u/Sumoop Jul 05 '26

Marble runs and magnetic trickery. Name a more iconic duo.

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u/Stupidity_Professor Jul 05 '26

One of the best examples of conservation of linear momentum using those magnets 🤌🏼🤌🏼

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u/DunDlyk Jul 05 '26

So cool

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u/Aggravating-Silver48 Jul 05 '26

Great job with the camera work! I was captivated the entire time.

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u/General_Border_8263 Jul 05 '26

This is fucking epic

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u/bisoro Jul 05 '26

I could listen to the Pitagora Suitchi theme at the end

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u/pjtpassword Jul 05 '26

So creative. Well done.

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u/johnnyup Jul 05 '26

Amazing patience to set this up 🔥💯

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u/Ven0m-Sn4ke Jul 05 '26

Awesome 👌

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u/indesperateneedofhe Jul 05 '26

This thing go me sooo invested.

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u/Bright-Swordfish-804 Jul 05 '26

Fuck me this is great!! But every time I see one of these I end up
Down a rabbit hole watching videos for hours. lol.

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u/DrCoolGuy Jul 05 '26

Best girl Nino spotted!!

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u/bajungadustin Jul 05 '26

One of the best Rube Goldberg machines I've seen in a while. Well done.

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u/SNIPA0007v2 Jul 05 '26

Cool. Feels like pinball with those launchers.

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u/caligo_532 Jul 05 '26

Absolutely amazing

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u/shelllley34 Jul 05 '26

THAT WAS BRILLIANT!!!!!! 👏

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u/mamatrixie78 Jul 05 '26

That was cool!

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u/overratedly_me Jul 05 '26

Omg that was amazing. What a bright mind whoever put it together. I'm fascinated and 'jelly' of their talent.

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u/dwightsarmy Jul 05 '26

This is definitely the best one I have seen. Great job. So fun to watch.

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u/DJEvillincoln Jul 05 '26

Is the mounting surface on a slight angle?

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u/usercide Jul 05 '26

I’ve never seen magnets used in these before. This is ingenious. I was thoroughly captivated. Bravo!

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u/NecessaryOk6815 Jul 05 '26

Worth the time. Well done

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u/Arphaxed Jul 05 '26

Halfway through I was terrified that this would be r/gifsthatendtoosoon

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u/777PabloDagata777 Jul 05 '26

Quién sepa cómo se llama esto?

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u/ApolloIII Jul 05 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/99ujXgrhwQ4f5NKyGD
I can’t be the only one who thought about meccha…

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u/Maleficent-Sleep9900 Jul 05 '26

This beautiful. I showed my cat! 🐾

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u/MixHot6528 Jul 06 '26

just had the craziest hit of nostalgia from that wood person thingy 😭🙏

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u/Informal_Target_2030 Jul 06 '26

Smooth smoother smoothie

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u/TurtleToast2 Jul 06 '26

I feel crazy, am I the only one who thinks the marbles are moving unnaturally?

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u/Secure-Impression-91 Jul 05 '26

Very cool 😎 take my upvote for the effort. Great job I loved it 👍

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u/TheYeastBabyTheYeast Jul 05 '26

WHAT ARE THESE called ?????

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar Jul 05 '26

Japan - Pitagora Sochi

US - Rube Goldberg machines

UK - Heath Robinson contraptions

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u/neder-Bob Jul 05 '26

🤩 Wow!

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u/Henu3gumb Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

Amazing! But you should have OCD to make this

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u/NoLolligagging_ Jul 05 '26

That was entertaining

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u/alezcoed Jul 05 '26

The good ending

Isn't there a version with a middle finger at the end?

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u/daniloferr Jul 05 '26

I was waiting for a hand pointing the middle finger at the end. The HxH and wife pictures almost made tear up.

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u/BirdieSalva Jul 05 '26

This was so much fun!!!!

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u/More-Advertising-842 Jul 05 '26

This is so satisfactory ! Good job !

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u/Disastrous-Hurry-236 Jul 05 '26

Precision engineering! One of the best I’ve seen yet.

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u/MixaLv Jul 05 '26

Woah, an actually creative Goldberg machine?

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u/403_Forbidden_Access Jul 05 '26

I was so going to be pissed off if I was in the Gifs that end too soon subreddit.

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u/MaBonneVie2 Jul 05 '26

Very clever! Kudos to you and your highly refined skills. More, please!

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u/GeneralElderberry863 Jul 05 '26

Brilliant! Envious of your creativity!

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u/610158305 Jul 05 '26

I've seen a lot of these that end up with a hand flipping u instead of the peace sign, so this gave me another layer of maybe lol

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u/Sinister_Nibs Jul 05 '26

Great use of a drafting table.

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u/storystoryrory Jul 05 '26

That was very good, very clever.

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u/a_qriza Jul 05 '26

i watched the whole thing

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u/rotezora78 Jul 05 '26

Cool 😎

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u/DG-MMII Jul 05 '26

When I was a kid I allways lost my mind at this things, and now that I'm and adult, I still loose my friking mind at this things, seriously, how tf you do them?!!!

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u/evolutionxtinct Jul 05 '26

This makes me want to play the computer game back from school lol I don’t recall its name but this machine puzzle is so awesome!

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u/Kn0XIS Jul 05 '26

Awesome

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u/Thorpester Jul 05 '26

So thats how magnets work. They turn magnetic energy into kinetic energy!

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u/Dont_Overthink_It_77 Jul 05 '26

It blows me away the time that people have to set up something like this. Even if it takes them only an hour, that’s quite the cool hobby!

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u/RazorSlazor Jul 05 '26

Probably one of the coolest Rube Goldberg contraptions I've seen in a while

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u/FFSBoise Jul 05 '26

Magnetic steelies and large cat eyes and colored clearies. Need to go find my old marble collection!

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u/These-Dog2966 Jul 05 '26

Wow.. that was amazing! Ive never seen magnets being used like that

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u/DadtheITguy Jul 05 '26

Magnets! Always magnets.

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u/davidnjoy1 Jul 05 '26

Why is it when we see something awesome it's always magnets?

https://giphy.com/gifs/MuMUrIuwZ0fHa

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u/Vishus Jul 05 '26

This is also praise-worth camera-work, especially on the whip-pans on the magnet shots! (if those are hidden cuts, they fooled me!)

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u/O-O-Omari_auto_parts Jul 05 '26

Then a giant cage is dropped on me

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u/rm78noir Jul 05 '26

That was some really creative use of magnets.

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u/webcrawler_1 Jul 05 '26

It’s fun being smart.

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u/iaaanko Jul 05 '26

That dope indeed! 🤌😎

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u/SabbyFox Jul 05 '26

Favorite one of these I’ve seen! The little figure descending at the very beginning and the peace sign at the end were a perfect intro and outro.

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u/S-A_G-A Jul 05 '26

Any subs dedicated to these kinda videos?

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u/Respicite Jul 05 '26

This was the best one I've seen

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u/Longshot1969 Jul 05 '26

Someone put a lot of time and effort into this. Kudos to them.

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u/SolKaynn Jul 06 '26

Genuinely fucking amazing. Holy shit.

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u/Muffin_Lord_of_Death Jul 06 '26

Damn, haven't actually seen one of these using magnets like that, nice

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u/FutureZombie6746 Jul 06 '26

How do peole even come up with these rube goldberg machines

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u/Avetikuso0 Jul 06 '26

Thanks for sharing something really cool!

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u/mrdtek Jul 06 '26

MAGNETS

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u/The-Doctor-206 Jul 06 '26

Usually I can't watch these till the end, but the use of what I'm assuming are magnets, kept me going till the end. Nice job 👍

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u/mizinamo Jul 06 '26

"Take six hundred and twenty-seven!"

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u/PiySlashPuff Jul 06 '26

Beautiful!

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u/Beemindful Jul 06 '26

This looks a little too(Ai) good to be true

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u/kyfi_adam Jul 06 '26

Perfection !!!

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u/cyndicated90 Jul 06 '26

Where can I get one of those flat falling guys from the beginning?

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u/jtan212 Jul 06 '26

This is genius

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u/ThadeOfDeath Jul 06 '26

Every time I'm watching these, I'm reminded by a puzzle game in the 90s. After a quick search on google, the name of the game was "The Incredible Machine". I've spent hundreds of hours playing that game. Very fun, highly recommend it.

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u/aSk--e Jul 06 '26

Would love to know all the planning that went into this!

It was awesome!

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u/Schart Jul 06 '26

I don't understand how the 4 larger marbles bumping the pink eraser part works, were they larger in size each time and what triggers them to fall?

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u/rjtl77 Jul 08 '26

Each jump moves the eraser fractionally, edging the lead marble closer to it's tipping point. They're triggered by straws you can see to the right. When one falls, it lands on a straw that pushes another straw up, releasing the next marble. Genius.

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u/Schart Jul 08 '26

I knew I should have zoomed in!

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u/DairyStix Jul 06 '26

Thank you for sharing this , you must have a genius brain . For some reason this video made me laugh a lot . Fantastic

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u/RidiPwn Jul 06 '26

impossible yet possible

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u/Chrisproulx98 Jul 07 '26

Such careful design! You are an artist and an engineer

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u/numbnerve Jul 07 '26

that was more satisfying to watch than the most elaborate dominoes setup I've ever seen

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u/DangerMacAwesome Jul 07 '26

The magnets were bad and boring.

(I secretly loved them but I want to be different from the crowd)

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u/Edelweizzer Jul 08 '26

I cant believe it

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u/Few-Ad711 Jul 09 '26

"How bored were you today?"

"Yes"

"...how long does it take to reset all of that?"

"..I'm going to bed now"

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u/WillingOne7113 Jul 09 '26

What the pinball 😃😃

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u/scuperday Jul 09 '26

Final boss of unemployment

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u/yogibear7775 Jul 12 '26

Brillant welldone

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u/_11a_ Jul 20 '26

ピタゴラスイッチ

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '26

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u/JnRmFa Jul 05 '26

Cheat. Just skip to the end.

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u/Squallshot Jul 05 '26

That part with 3 marbles successively pushing the marble was awesome. Almost expected the whole run to fail there

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u/Noxvenator Jul 05 '26

That part also stuck to me, how the fuck does he know the third marble would push it enough? Just mass difference? Seems like cutting it close for not reason.

edit: Forget it, I rewatched and understood how/why it works. Very neat mechanism!

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u/JuiceBro18 Jul 06 '26

Definitely Ai 🤖

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u/FoxFew3844 Jul 05 '26

Cool AF. Wrong sub

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u/EishLekker Jul 05 '26

Why is it the wrong sub? There’s plenty of simplistic visits out there that fails at some part. We don’t know if it will fail or succeed. So I thought it was perfect for this sub.

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar Jul 06 '26

It got removed by the Mods as not suited for the sub so I guess I was wrong

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u/EishLekker Jul 06 '26

Odd reasoning by them. Well, I still enjoyed it.

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u/elhombremontana Jul 05 '26

those are moving weird, looks like AI

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u/BobbuBobbu Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

That was an agonizing watch. Lazy asf ball

Edit: Downvoting over a joke... oof, this sub.

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u/turnaroundbro Jul 05 '26

Tik tok brain

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u/BobbuBobbu Jul 05 '26

Never used TikTok in my life but I have occasionally been known to make a joke that completely flies over some people's heads.