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- From: tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman)
- Subject: New puzzles?
- Date: 22 Nov 92 22:57:17 MST
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.225717.24536@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Organization: University of Utah, CompSci Dept
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- There are some new puzzles on the market.... are they any good?
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- The first is called OSKAR's CUBE or something similar. It consists of
- a cube (no kidding) with paths etched in all 6 sides. There is a
- cross hair of rigid rods that connect inside the cube... got the
- picture?
- So there are six rigid rods that meet orthogonally inside, and they pass
- out through the outer walls and are constrained to move where the paths
- are etched in the sides.... one tries to move the cross hairs to a particular
- position within the center, which is difficult because they can only move
- on a maze (which must be inferred from the outside)
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- It seems to be a pretty cool puzzle, although after about 2 minutes of
- figuring I thought I had figured it out. (It might have been near the ending
- solution and I got lucky) Also, I had this weird feeling of deja-vu. Either
- I have played with the exact same thing, or me and some friends designed the
- same thing.
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- The second is called,, who knows. It consists of two disks with holes..
- the two disks rotate freely, and have little containers which hold marbles.
- by spinning the disks and pushing on the marbles they will pass from side
- to side. The object is to get all of the marbles of the same color into
- the same container.
- It looks kind of neat, but a trifle tedious perhaps. The pattern is
- so regular on both sides that it is perhaps too mechanical, and there
- are so many marbles that it might take ten years to do anything.
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