Message #2923

From: Roice Nelson <roice3@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Favorite puzzle-2
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:15:16 -0600

3^5 is the puzzle I’m most proud to have solved. The few months in 2006
when our group initially focused on this puzzle was a fun experience, and
solving was special because we had to overcome hurdles to create a working
puzzle in the first place. Solving did become tedious, but it felt great
to finish at the end.

Based on Andrey’s choice, it sounds like configuring more "Professor"
versions of puzzles in MagicTile would be good.

Also, congrats Andrey on your 120Z solution! I’m sure difficulty is not
the only consideration, but does solving 120C change your answer?

Cheers,
Roice

P.S. Thanks Ed for the link about the Hamiltonian circuit through the
Rubik’s Cube group. I hadn’t seen that.

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com>wrote:

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> That is a beautiful puzzle! Would you like to tell us why it is special
> for you?
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> For me the question is easy. Solving the 3^4 was very special for me. Even
> with Roice’s solution and help from the list, it was a proud achievement
> for me to finally solve my own puzzle after so many years and get in the
> list of the first 100 solvers.
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> -Melinda
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> On 1/29/2014 8:51 AM, andreyastrelin@yahoo.com wrote:
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> There is another question about "the favorite puzzle": what puzzle were
> you the most proud to solve? For me answer is strange: now it’s 5-layer
> Klein Quadric (aka {7,3} 24 color F0.4:0:1 F0.8:0:1). Somehow for me it’s
> above multidimensional cubes and 5D simplex.
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