Week 7 gears

I have a dark grey and two lights with a ka ching, but I have not gotten the bottom two yet...so not sure.

which gear does your dark-grey-with-two-lights ka-ching?

My ka-chings have 1 dark on the top right gear, 1 dark and 1 light on the lower right and 2 darks and 2 lights on the lower left.

I figure one or more of my kachings has to be wrong, but I don't know which one(s).

[edit] Moving gears is such an agonizing process that I hate to break up a ka-ching if I don't have to. The drag function works poorly, the spinning gears seem to have force fields around them and the gears re-size and re-position themselves at the slightest touch - even when the four-arrow drag cursor is present, not the expanding-circle re-size cursor.

Week 7, killer gear...
Two max size dark gray gears and two almost max size light gray gears stacked (total of four connections) slow it down enough. Working from bottom left to top left - max light grey (stacked) to max light gray (stacked)to max dark gray to max dark gray - ka-ching.

BTW, did you know that the gear still spins even if most of it is off the page (and connected)?

Thanks dtrabjohns! I had started out with that single stacked gear connector to the lower left, but dropped it after repeated iterations of increasing/decreasing each gear separately resulted in the green gear always being a nanometer too slow/fast.

Thing is, I was putting along re-organizing my gears, when I suddenly ka-chinged on all four gears - with one gear left over. It's the first time I've solved a gear puzzle and had unused gears.

Yeah, I knew a gear still spins even if most of it is off the page & connected. In that Week 5 OMG, I had left-clicked on the 4-way drag cursor to grab the gear to move it - and the gear maximized itself, flew across the page, crashed into a spinning green gear and went half off the page. Fortunately it stuck to the green gear, which was spinning.

dtrabjohn's BTW hint is useful in retrieving gears almost lost off the page while solving this puzzle. Getting the almost-lost gear to spin brings the spokes/cross-bars into view & you can grab one to pull the gear back onto the page.

Ack, wouldn'tcha know it would be the last one making my life difficult...I *so* want that 105 Puzzle icon!

I tried visualizing your solution, Doug, but all I could see was all the available gears on the left side of the page and the right side, bereft. I guess I'll sacrifice my three lovely kachings and start over again! *^)*^& top left gear.

I think I did it a different way:

- top right: simple black gear connection from center
- bottom right: 3/4 black with close to max gray (call it stack 1)
- bottom left: chain from max gray on stack 1 to close to max gray stacked on pretty small black (call it stack 2). Both light gray gears overlapping center gear.
Chain stack 2 to stack 3 (large black and smaller gray) to control speed. Large black is what connects to bottom left.
- top left: chain from black gear on stack 2 to two black gears. adjust speed by changing size of black gear on stack 2.

The only part off the screen for me was part of stack 3.

Maybe this helps????

Tried your way, Jay, and it looks a bit slower...but still much too fast on that top left gear. Arrgghh!

Nevermind - finally got it once I remembered the science behind Stack 2! :)

dtrab didn't mention the right side gears because I had them right.

The top right green gear uses a single dark grey gear connected to the black source gear. ka-ching.

The bottom right green gear uses a single stacked dark grey/light grey gear - connected to the black source gear. ka-ching.

dtrab's solution then used a single stacked dark grey/light grey to connect the bottom left gear to the black source gear. This one will take a bit of tweaking to get the right balance in gear sizes. ka-ching.

For me, the last stacked gear came off the the light grey gear which connected the bottom left green gear to the black source gear.

And then a dark grey gear connected that last-mentioned stacked gear to the upper left green gear. I got the last ka-ching with one gear left over.

I had been trying to connect that last-mentioned stacked gear to the lower left green gear and then connect the dark grey gears one by one to the upper left green gear. The dark grey gears went off into the void at the left edge of the game. In moving gears around to get a gear back onto the page, I inadvertently ka-chinged with one gear left over.

I'll see if I can do it again and get a picture of it.

I've got a screen shot and can post to the FB Forge site...

done

LAST WORD - I HATE THOSE GEARS!!!!!!!!!!!

Within one breath of getting it and it would not go!