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Remember the board game, “Mousetrap?” Here are two great ads that put a new spin on the Rube Goldberg concept. The first is an ad from Honda, which has been touted as “one of the most expensive ads ever filmed.”

The next is part of the current Guinness campaign, which, as Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing so eloquently put it, “was shot over a week in a remote Argentine village — it depicts a falling-dominoes cascade that expands to include falling suitcases, bookcases, flaming bales of hay, junker cars, crutches, and many other objects winding through the hills of the town.” So it’s not really a Rube Goldberg set up in the purest sense of the word, but it’s fun to watch, regardless.

I just have to include this incredible series of pool shots: