The Philadelphia Contraption Contest went dormant during the pandemic. It took an experimental theater company to bring it back.

A team from St. Olaf College, a private liberal arts school in Northfield, Minn., won the 22nd annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University on Saturday (March 28). St. Olaf, with ...

The name Rube Goldberg has long been synonymous with any overly-built contraption played for laughs that solves a simple problem through complicated means. But it might surprise you to learn that the ...

GREENFIELD — While most teachers show their students how to simplify problems, Amy Fletcher likes to teach her students how to make the simplest tasks more complicated. The Greenfield-Central ...

St. Paul Catholic School eighth grade students demonstrated their Rube Goldberg projects Thursday in the social hall at the church/school. The projects consisted of the students working in groups to ...

The fun of a Rube Goldberg machine is watching the ingenuous, frequently unexpected ways the device’s creator comes up with to keep them going. But, ultimately, watching one in action is a passive ...

While some people binge-watch Netflix or clean out their spice cabinets, other people like Will Donnellon, 19, and his brother and father, are getting creative. The three of them spent one night ...

Crappy robots are all the craze these days, with YouTube’s greatest engineering minds working on everything from tazer-happy desks to skin-crawling toilet machines. But crappy Rube Goldberg machines, ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Rube Works: The Official Rube Goldberg Invention Game The first and only official Rube Goldberg puzzle game. Solve everyday problems in Rube’s trademark ...