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Ok my house fell, but unfortunately I couldn't upload some of the .gifs to imgur because they are too large.

Here are a few .gifs of people doing silly stuff in my house though:
http://imgur.com/a/tVoSs

It's an 8 step clock cycle, so the .gifs where you see the lights flashing on and off a bunch is people stepping hundreds of times (to figure out the clock), then after they figure it out they lose count or something and die.

Here's a very basic magic dance:
http://castledraft.com/editor/nbf3UK

I tried to make it obvious how it's wired etc.
If the robber goes straight forward the chihuahua will push the buttons in such a way that an electrical path will form to the grate he is standing on, killing him.
If the robber tries to retreat, the same thing will happen.
The robber must "dance" in such a way that neither of the two sets of buttons will be simultaneously pushed. Obviously this can be made more robust, but this is the basic idea.

Try to think of a way to do this with powered trapfloors, a way to do it where the robber must make more strict movements, a way to make it less obvious what's about to happen, etc.

Edit:

For example, in the example above the robber must only make two backsteps at the right time to make it through, like so:
(Look at the horizontal movement of the indicator lights to see the correct path.)
http://castledraft.com/editor/eYpT7X

But if you wired it like this:
http://castledraft.com/editor/VVzskk

The correct path looks more like this:
http://castledraft.com/editor/7pigd9

And you want the robber to be unable to brick the windows and draw the chihuahua out so you can do something like this:
http://castledraft.com/editor/k9RUVY

And eventually after you've gotten some kills under your belt but you've noticed people trying to saw around the whole contraption or cut the wires or whatever so now you want to make sure they make it to the end with the chihuahua still in place so you throw a layer of pits, steel walls, and a failsafe trapdoor that only turns on if the chihuahua is still up there:
http://castledraft.com/editor/MTAINx

You can imagine how to expand on this further...

Except combo locks all have major weaknesses against tools. Essentially, a contiguous chain of wired wooden walls leading directly to a place the owner doesn't want you to go.
Sure, it's practically impossible for a new player with no tools or maybe even a $2000 tool bag player to break a sufficiently designed combo lock, but a decent scout and enough saws breaks them every time (+maybe a ladder and/or crowbar, depending on how it's set up).

What I'm saying is; the design might be great for new houses with <$5k but you won't ever really get anywhere far with a combo lock house. I've made quite a bit of money by scouting combo locks, then coming back with x saws + 1 ladder.