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Most Complicated Rube Goldberg Machine - Current world record
1. A Rube Goldberg machine can be described as a machine that performs a rather simple task in an overly complicated fashion.
At the 2012 national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, taking place at Purdue University on 31 March 2012, a machine built by the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers Rube Goldberg Team completed a flawless run of 300 steps. As a result, the machine not only pops a balloon (which was the tasks for the 2012 contest), but also solves all task from the contests 1988-2011 "en route".

 
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1. A Rube Goldberg machine can be described as a machine that performs a rather simple task in an overly complicated fashion.
At the 2011 national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on 26 March 2011 a machine built by the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers Rube Goldberg Team completed a flawless run of 244 steps - just to water a plant.

 
 
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