This game only works on 32-bit computers.Players are given an initial set of marbles that are divided evenly into eight colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, and silver (steel). These marbles are picked up and dropped by the players into funnels leading to a series of rails, switches, traps and other devices which grow more complex as the game progresses. The aim is to ensure that each marble arrives in the bin of same color as the marble. Players must determine how the marble will travel through the puzzle, and how its journey will change the puzzle for the next marble. When a marble runs over certain sections of the puzzle, the paths may be rerouted or cut off, either temporarily or permanently.

After the release of his 1997 album The Drop, Eno relocated to Saint Petersburg for a short sabbatical and began working on music specifically for installations. The musician sequences out the music using these. The pins activate levers which in turn drop ball bearings on the various sound producing.

For example, if the marble runs over a button, it might hop, skip and jump a diversion that sends the next marble down a different road.There are 50 puzzles in total, including five bonus puzzles which can only be accessed by solving a combination of locks which appear in certain puzzles. Each puzzle is decorated with -style notes and sketches.

Blastopore lip. These explanatory notes are a part of the background, informing the player of new pieces of equipment and their effects. At the end of each puzzle, the marbles that have been guided into their proper bins are returned to the player.

It will cool down again once you stop clicking. If the red line gets all the way to the top, the machine will explode! Watch the red line on the machine gauge, and stop clicking when it is about 3/4 of the way up. On several levels the only way to get Gold is to click some of the machines to make them run faster. Farm frenzy walkthrough levels.

Lost marbles must be purchased when they are needed to complete a puzzle. Steel (silver) balls are 20 percent of the price of colored marbles and can be used as test marbles or to help release a catch instead of using a valuable colored marble; additionally, there are steel-coloured exit bins in the final puzzle. Black marbles are very expensive, but change to the correct color when they arrive in a bin.

“First, it’s important to say I didn’t invent the culture of the marble machines,” Martin Molin says. “Are you aware of the marble machine culture? It’s such a scene.”I was not aware of such a scene, but thanks to Molin, I am now. Maybe several others are, too, thanks to the slew of headlines that have recently been trumpeting Molin’s own “incredible” marble music-making machine as a spectacle that will “blow your mind” and “amaze” you. For those who haven’t seen the Wintergarten Marble Machine, it’s a piano organ-sized contraption made out of birch plywood, some Lego Technic sets, and 2,000 marbles. When Molin winds a hand crank, the marbles cascade through a series of gears and chutes, plunking down on xylophone keys to create a cheerfully sci-fi harmony. It took 14 months of 40-or-so-hour work weeks to make.Molin is a musician from Sweden.

His band, plays spacey, orchestral folk-electronic music on instruments like xylophones and drums—but never anything as complex as the Marble Machine. Molin says he’s hacked other instruments to modify them, and once made a small hand-powered music box, but the Rube Goldberg-like Marble Machine is a first. To hear Molin tell it, the Marble Machine sounds like his version of Kevin Costner’s baseball diamond in. After finding out about other, he was “very hooked on this idea” of building one.

Then he visited the Museum Speelklok in Utrecht, in The Netherlands. Music boxes, musical clocks, and street organs, some dating back to the 1500s, fill the museum. “I couldn’t get those machines out of my head,” Molin says. Molin set out to make his own, taking additional inspiration from. He documented the process in short YouTube clips, so you can see him in his workshop building the flywheel that stores energy, choosing the size of the teeth on the wooden gears, testing marble lifting mechanisms, and plugging pins into the programming wheel. This part of the Marble Machine is a grid, and works like an analog version of a MIDI machine.

Move plastic pins around on the 22 tracks of the wheel, and the notes changes.The Wintergatan Marble Machine is almost incomprehensibly complicated. There’s a violin strapped to gears that connect to rotating belts that carry marbles that drop onto xylophone keys and then fall into funnels, all to go back through the machinery and get spit out again. At one point last summer, Molin says, he was so determined to make marbles drop out one at a time (instead of two or three at a time), that he scrapped six months' worth of work and began iterating on his design.It’s a dizzying way to make music, and it’s equally difficult to describe the effects. “It’s like a band with a vibraphone,” Molin says. “This vibrophone has this vibratro that goes wa-wa-wa-wa, that adds to the dream-association side of the sound. Like a steam engine without the steam.” You can, of course, decide for yourself what the Marble Machine sounds like, by watching and listening above.