Last week-end, I brought my Wii at a friend of mine's for some always-nice 4-players Mario Kart action. Of all things I could've forgotten, turns out I hadn't taken the sensor bar, which was absolutely necessary to start the game up. Luckily, I remembered the Wii Remote pointer works with any kind of infrared, so we tried to solve the problem by crossing the light beams of a torch and a mobile phone. And it worked.

This Troper managed to fix a bed frame using a pen and a ping-pong paddle.

This Troper once fixed the foot pedal to band's chimes with paperclips, string, and half of a broken screw.

This troper swears he can fix the door at work with super glue and magnets. He also heard this line from a TruTV program about a murder: "Instead, the killer or killers used items found around MacGyver's home."

This troper just repaired his car's air conditioner with nothing but a pair of nail clippers.

On a vacation to Denmark, we found out a good way to keep the wasps away from us was putting out a glass of lemon soda. They kept to this glass and didn't bother us much.

Visit any high school theatre. Chances are, you'll find something held together with gaffers tape or other adhesive. We tend to use gaff tape to hold together gel frames or set pieces when we can't find screws.

This troper ran out of tent-pegs on a camp recently (the weather was foul, pouring rain and half-way to a gale). Turns out that big screwdrivers actually make quite an effective substitute, especially when the peg-mallet is a lead-head (big square, all metal head).

This troper helped put a t-shirt for the university's recreational services (intramural sports and the like) on display when there was no available hanger by using three tent stakes and a lanyard used to hold whistles.

This troper has this reputation in her workplace, where she is the resident person-who-repairs-everything. It's reached an almost comical level -- not only do her coworkers not bother to try to fix things, they ''aren't allowed''. Anything involving repairs, modifications, or other similar actions is specifically reserved for her. One of the volunteers, watching her reverse-engineer a broken wind chime into a set of ornaments, invoked the trope by asking her, "So are you, like, the MacGyver of this outfit or something?"

When this troper was 10-ish his 4-ish brother needed 4 of the larger AA batteries for a robot toy, but there were only 3 AA batteries available. So, he took 1 AAA batttery from a remote control, and a small round magnet from a Lego set, pushed the magnet and the AAA battery into the slot and it worked.

This troper accidentally broke the nut (piece that holds the strings) on his guitar. In an attempt to fix it until I had enough money to buy a new one, I then split a pencil in half with my favorite knife, carved grooves in it, and re-strung the guitar. For a piece of processed sawdust that cracked slightly whenever I used the whammy bar, it held up beautifully.

This Troopette managed to break into her house using a name tag.

This Troper tried to invoke MacGyvering once (when he was accidentally locked out of the house) by picking the lock with a compass and some gum. It was subverted, spectacularly.