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> Date: Tue, 18 May 93 09:36:28 MDT
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc
> Subject: The Incredible Machine #78
> Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
> From: hain...@bones.et.byu.edu (Bradley D. Hainsworth)
> 
> How do you solve puzzle #78?  It is a
> lot harder than the one in the demo.
 
>From the timsol.txt walkthrough:

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 78. FREE POOR POKEY THE CAT

 This is another puzzle whose solution can be elusive. The trick behind raising
the cage is dropping the cannonball into the bucket. And the trick to flipping
the cannonball off the seesaw is to tie a balloon to the seesaw's lower end.
First, the easy stuff. Position a size 1 incline (pointing up from right to
left) with its bottom point directly on top of the right balloon so that the
balloon bounces off the third mouse motor into the second mouse motor. Tie the
bucket to the cage via the two prepositioned pulleys. Finally, don't have the
cannonball fall onto the prepositioned seesaw...it's too low. Instead,
position another seesaw whose lower-right end is immediately under the
cannonball and tie that end to the balloon in the lower-left corner. Use a
size 1 incline to bounce this balloon off the side of mouse motor 1, then let
it rise and pop the cannonball off the seesaw and into the bucket.
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Good luck :-)

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