{"id":592,"date":"2006-08-27T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=592"},"modified":"2006-08-27T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T15:27:06","slug":"chinese-puzzle-torture-comparing-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Puzzle Torture, comparing notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a follow up to yesterday’s post about the nameless Chinese puzzle<\/a> that Steven<\/a> was working on, I’ve put together a few screencaps from the ones that gave me trouble. I think everyone else has beaten all of these by now, and I’m curious if anyone else has alternate solutions to any of these. Number 6, 13, and 18 in particular felt like they may have had more than one arrangement that would lead to the solution, but I wasn’t up to the job of finding out.<\/p>\n

I hasitate to post these here, lest someone be tempted to peek at the solutions. If I could have peeked last night, I would have, and would have been robbed of the pleasure of beating number six on my own. <\/p>\n

Spoilers follow. <\/p>\n


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\n\"6\"\/
\n6 – This one was the hardest of the bunch. (So far.) I was stuck on this for a long time.<\/p>\n

\"12\"\/
\n12 – The solution often revolves around doing something unintuitive, as in this one where you must divert a beam that’s already going in the right direction.<\/p>\n

\"13\"\/
\n13 – So many pieces. Is this really the only arrangement that leads to the solution?<\/p>\n

\"14\"\/
\n14 – In the comments below Michael Davis points out a very different solution to this one.<\/p>\n

\"15\"\/
\n15<\/p>\n

\"16\"\/
\n16<\/p>\n

\"17\"\/
\n17<\/p>\n

\"18\"\/
\n18 – Another counter intutive puzzle: You don’t have enough pieces to do this via the short route, and must instead take the long<\/em> route.<\/p>\n

\"19\"\/
\n19 – I still don’t get why the prisim would redirect blue light and not red, but I assume this is something that makes sense if you know more about prisims.<\/p>\n

\"20\"\/
\n20 – I can believe that this is the only solution. The angles needed to make the prisim work were fairly restricitve.
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16 is one you could flip vertically and still beat it, although I wouldn’t really call that an “alternate” solution. I’m curious if anyone got something totally different from what I have. In many cases they SEEM like they can only have one solution, but of course in many cases they seem impossible<\/em> at first glance, so I’m not letting appearances fool me. The only way to know for sure is to put my solutions up here and compare notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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