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Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions Demo

Build Rube Goldberg contraptions from cats, mice, cheese, pulleys and rockets in Sierra's physics puzzle game.

Sierra On-Line, 2000

Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions Demo gameplay

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Mice and cheese

Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions Demo

Each puzzle sets a goal and gives you a handful of parts. Place them, press START and watch the chain reaction play out.

Drag parts from the bin into the machine, then click START. Click STOP to rearrange.

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Game archive

License
Maintainer-accepted freely distributed promotional demo
Rights holder
Sierra On-Line
Redistribution
Recorded as permitted

Permission

Hosting was accepted by the Systemless maintainer on 1 November 2026 under the policy for unchanged, freely circulated promotional demos. The unchanged demo appeared on period Macintosh magazine cover discs. The bundled documents contain no explicit redistribution grant or restriction. Preserve the complete unchanged archive and remove it if a rights holder objects.

Notes

PowerPC demo with ten single-player contraptions, three two-player puzzles and twenty parts.

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