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Old 05-28-2007, 10:35 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Impossible Puzzle?

I've been trying to figure out if this puzzle is possible or not. I think I've seen it before and I also think that it may be impossible. Am I right, or is there some bizarre trick to it?

Puzzle can be found here.
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Old 05-28-2007, 10:58 PM   #2 (permalink)
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You know I have proper right to be infuriated with this post?





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Old 05-28-2007, 11:31 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 05-28-2007, 11:49 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Well here is your solution. Don't look until you are ready, you can't unlearn this knowledge.

Spoiler: It's proven impossible here: http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.3utilities.html
The short explanation is that it cannot be done in 2 dimensions.
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Old 05-29-2007, 03:43 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Hahaha.
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Old 05-29-2007, 06:52 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Damn logarithims...
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Old 05-29-2007, 07:39 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Well you just made me piss my girlfriend off because I was supposed to be giving her directions and instead I was on the phone trying to solve that stupid thing. Thanks for nothing. lol
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Old 05-29-2007, 10:43 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Has to be impossible.
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Old 05-29-2007, 11:07 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Wow. That was nice. Do you have more puzzles like this?
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Old 05-30-2007, 09:34 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Nah, I just stumbled upon that one randomly. I'm sure there are more out there somewhere, but I don't have any direct links.
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Old 05-31-2007, 04:36 PM   #11 (permalink)
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It should be impossible - and I think I can prove it. (Of course, this is where someone will put up their hand and say they have a solution to the problem! )
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Old 05-31-2007, 07:22 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Hard to stop trying. Much harder to solve. Seems impossible with my limited brainpower.
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Old 05-31-2007, 07:51 PM   #13 (permalink)
 
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i heard from a friend that his university teacher had the solution to this. I think he was trying to pull a joke on me but still, id like to know ...
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Old 06-01-2007, 03:22 PM   #14 (permalink)
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i heard from a friend that his university teacher had the solution to this. I think he was trying to pull a joke on me but still, id like to know ...
Your friend's university teacher doesn't have a solution. This puzzle IS impossible. I have come up with a proof. PM me if you want the proof. (I assume people don't want it posted here, to avoid spoiling their fun. )
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Old 06-01-2007, 04:10 PM   #15 (permalink)
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What kind of person goes through all the trouble to code that and put it up on the web if it is impossible. A sadist? Communist spy who wants to ruin productivity?
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Old 07-20-2007, 04:14 AM   #16 (permalink)
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It has nothing to do with brain power, it's just similar to the river+bridge problem one great matematician discoveres (i dont remember his name).
I learnt about these things when i has a computer sciences project.
It's just simple maths, using combinations.
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Old 07-20-2007, 12:35 PM   #17 (permalink)
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It has nothing to do with brain power, it's just similar to the river+bridge problem one great matematician discoveres (i dont remember his name).
I learnt about these things when i has a computer sciences project.
It's just simple maths, using combinations.
meaning you solved it?

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Old 07-20-2007, 02:30 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Ya, not solvable, can get all the lines but one. It will always cut it off.
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Old 07-20-2007, 04:51 PM   #19 (permalink)
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I remember a kid presented to this to our class in 5th grade and said there was a 3 million dollar prize offered in a magazine. We all spent the rest of the day trying to draw it up.
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Old 10-21-2007, 08:36 PM   #20 (permalink)
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How about the second one? It's easy until the last move, and then it seems impossible. I haven't been playing with it for very long, though.
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Old 10-21-2007, 09:38 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Actually, you can beat it by cheating:
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Old 10-22-2007, 06:30 AM   #22 (permalink)
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this thing is driving me nuts
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Old 01-21-2008, 04:08 AM   #23 (permalink)
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the three houses and three utilities puzzle has a "cheat that will only work if completed on a sheet of paper - take the final line around the back of the sheet of paper.
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Old 01-21-2008, 08:58 PM   #24 (permalink)
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the three houses and three utilities puzzle has a "cheat that will only work if completed on a sheet of paper - take the final line around the back of the sheet of paper.
But then that becomes three dimensional, not two, thus only proving that the puzzle is impossible.
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