A subdued contest, yet with a wide variety of different solutions on offer.
While everyone spotted the quick and easy rocket option, the remaining solutions cover just about everything but a dark lever.....
To my great surprise, no-one submitted a pulley. (Although Arunion's solution is AWOL...)
POC3 shows my idea of what that might have looked like - I was expecting it to be the winning option.
EDIT: Arunion's solutions arrived one minute before posting. There is a pulley.... of sorts.....
And a different sort of rocket, too.
In the end, the runaway winner was Mark_man (scoring 1666), who managed to make the impossible happen, with a single bungee elastic solution.
He also found an amazing pseudo pulley alternative, taking second place as well with another 1600+ score. Arunion shows how to do the same thing, spending a lot more money.....
Thanks to all who participated. See you in 316....