PLAY
Manipulate TECHNIC gears, beams, conveyor belts and motors to complete the ten pre-built puzzles.
Enjoy viewing player solutions and challenge yourself to achieve them with the fastest time, lowest cost or highest score.
Only the top 20% of players so far have reached the final level. Take on the challenge.
CREATE
Create your own levels, using up to 10 Golden Gears, and challenge friends to complete them.
You can also rate other players levels and use the filter tools to play the best ones out there.
With over 150,000 player solutions already, explore the community to discover some amazing contraptions.
MANIPULATE
Click and hold the left mouse button on the outer edges of components to rotate or extend them.
Double click to remove an object. Beams can be connected to each other and certain gears when highlighted in green.
Align gear teeth with the zoom tool at the bottom or by rotating your mouse wheel.
Remember that gears, motors and conveyor belts will stay where they are placed. All other items are effected by gravity.
The possibilities are limitless!
IET’s online ‘creation station’ will test your cognitive cogs
All those with great minds, prepare yourselves for an exceptional treat of intellectual perplexity. The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has just released its first ever viral marketing game campaign. Cogitate is designed to raise awareness of IET membership and services and to promote the online Inspec Direct database. Produced by award winning new media agency 4T2, the game allows you to manipulate gears, beams, conveyors and motors in order to complete ten pre-built puzzles. You then have the freedom to create your own levels and to challenge friends to complete them.
Complete the level to unlock solutions of other players that have completed the level. Because the game is made using a complex physics simulator, the possibilities are limitless. To add to the fun, The LEGO Company found the game so inspiring they have allowed IET to use LEGO TECHNIC pieces as the components in your virtual contraptions.
Play Cogitate at cogitate.theiet.org/
