Good news! The dillos got off the ferris wheel safely.
Some interesting variations on catchers and rotation mechanisms, and ways to get the dillos out of their baskets.
There was perhaps only one competitive strategy - to spin the wheel.
But, Arunion came up with some marvellous rubber-powered creations.
And I built the leverage variant I had originally envisioned as POC3, just to show what else could have been done.
Anyway, results are:
1st place, scoring 1706, is Mark_man. Congratulations.
Not 2nd, scoring 1670, was the first tweak of the original POC, which also didn't come 2nd with 1586. I was genuinely surprised (and pleased) to see you guys having so much trouble.
2nd, scoring 1576, is Rob.
3rd, unfortunately not making it three in a row for a rubber-powered victory, is Arunion with 1344.
Thanks for playing, guys.