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* The deaths in ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' were frequently caused by things like this.

** [[The Movie]] started with a textbook example. Naturally, it was a suicide machine. The man was an engineer, and was more pleased that it worked than anything else.

* ''[[I Carly]]'': Spencer builds one so that he won't forget to feed his fish. It works, until Carly tells him that he's going to have to remember to reset the machine every day.

* The punchline in ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' series 8 episode ''Cassandra''. Of course, [[Fanon Discontinuity|some people think the episode never happened]], making the joke a bit less funny.

* ''[[Monkey Island 2 Le Chucks Revenge]]'' had LeChuck capturing Guybrush and putting him in one of these, whose ultimate goal was to lower him into a pit of acid. There's no actual reason for it, as opposed to just dropping him into the pit, other than {{spoiler|to give Guybrush a chance to escape.}}

** [[Stating the Simple Solution|Why LeChuck didn't just shoot him?]] Well...they had an extra disc.

* In the Interactive Fiction game ''[[Rematch]]'' the protagonist is stuck in a [[Groundhog Day Loop]] where he and his two friends are killed when an SUV crashes through the front window of the pool hall. Each cycle allows you one move before disaster strikes: undoing resets the world to just before the accident, but with some things slightly rearranged. So while the given solution will not work on every cycle, eventually you learn that {{spoiler|Ines will do anything Nick dares her to do, that she can hit the loudmouth with a page from her Far Side calendar if it's wrapped around the cueball, that the loudmouth will yell out pretty much anything that has a number in it, that the distracted girl behind the counter will repeat the number the loudmouth yells when she calls time on one of the tables, that one particular table has an irate player who nearly strikes the ceiling fan control switch with his cuestick before someone tells him that it's not their table being called. Accomplishing this will in turn cause a ceiling fan to fall, meaning everyone's attention is on the front window when the SUV crashes through and react in time to avoid it.}}

* In order to get a Babel fish in the ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' computer game, you have to set up a completely absurd series of events that will ultimately cause the fish to land right in your ear.

** Similarly, ''[[Trapt]]'' gives you large bonuses for setting up traps in such a way that a victim will fall into several in quick succession before getting flung into one of the mansion's in-built hazards.

* [[Myst]] III Exile's Age of Amateria is one giant relay puzzle.

* While [[Minecraft]]'s physics do not seem to allow the construction of many mechanical devices, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTS9Z6PFh0 this video] will show you how it's done.

* In ''[[Ghost Trick]]'', puzzles are often solved by tweaking seemingly unrelated objects until they react to each other and set each other off in just the right way.

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