what are those things called that you set up and knock down?

Question

seen in cartoons the mythbusters did it to where you set up marbles and ovens trains or whatever you need and one thing leads to another like a ball would hit some dominoes which turns a train on which runs into a book and so on

they have a specific name mythbusters made one using an oven, robots, ironing boards to knock down buster commercials use them all the time. its like a two word thing its right on the tip of my tongue

Answer 1

Perhaps you're thinking of a "Rube Goldberg Device" here?

Answer 2

Those are side tracked designs based on cartoonish drawings of a mouse trap. Later people invented elaborate designs to capture or kill a target, such as a fake mouse. There is even a game called Mouse Trap based on those ideas. "Build a better mouse trap" is a phrase that came from this art form. Later designs branched out to turn something on or off. There are still competitions based on this concept where someone needs a fixed number of smaller tasks to complete the main task.

I would call them mouse traps even if they have nothing to do with catching or killing mice.

Answer 3

Not really, it's more like your cat always had wheels and calling it a car is just more accurate. Pluto should never have been a planet, it got away with it as there was no clear definition of planet and it seemed to be more like a planet than an asteroid so it was called a planet even though it wasn't quite like the others. As we have found more detailed information about Pluto and found other similar objects to Pluto it makes more sense to classify it and the others like it as the new class of dwarf planets.

Answer 4

Rube Goldberg?

Answer 5

Dominoes?!?!

Answer 6

dominoes?

Answer 7

dominoes? jenga? yeippe!!!