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Rube Goldberg: The father of inventions

The popular board game Mousetrap is an example of a "Rube Goldberg"-inspired machine, a contraption that contains elaborate mechanisms with a vast array of moving parts to perform a simple function. Mo Rocca visits the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, where less is never more.
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