Message #615

From: Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Melinda solves the cube
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:53:22 -0500

Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com> wrote:

> I have a particularly fun announcement to make tonight which is that
> I have finally solved the 4D cube. It might surprise many of you
> that I had never before solved this puzzle that I’d helped to write
> but it’s true. It’s been over 20 years since Don Hatch and I wrote
> the first working version so it’s been something of an embarrassment
> to me to have never actually solved it. . . . I’m very happy to have
> finally checked off one of the important things that I had wanted to
> achieve before I die. . . .

Congratulations! Of course, whether you had ever solved it or not, we
are all forever in debt for your significant role in making this
possible. :-)

–Jay