A devious little puzzler comes to us by way of Kongregate Games today, and you can take a run at it yourself right here–it’s called Electric Box,and if you ever wanted a good electrical engineering sim, well, you’ve got it right here, man.  Boy, do you ever.

You’re given a variety of parts–water wheels, light bulbs, solar panels, batteries, laser generators, and so on–to move power from one device to another.  Now, you might think–all I really need is some wires and that’ll let me run power no problem.  Oh no…it’s never that simple.  For some reason, everyone’s detached wires, leaving piles of them everywhere that you can’t move.  I’m guessing this is like some drunken engineer challenge or something, leaving you to try and route power around corners and past blockages and everywhere in between.

Two things become clear right away. This game is hard, and this game is pretty fun.  If you do any tinkering with machines in your spare time, or you’ve always wanted to but seem to have thumbs implanted where your fingers should be, then you might well get a kick out of transferring power from one point to another.  But if you’re not into engineering, then this isn’t one for you.