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11 Oct 2024 09:19:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Different Type of Puzzle  
From: pan
Date: 5 Jan 2008 13:06:48
Message: <477fc738$1@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
news:477bfc2b@news.povray.org...
> Mike the Elder <zer### [at] wyanorg> wrote:
>> Yes.  I like this puzzle because I've seen bright 
>> eight-year-olds (and older
>> folks) figure it out in moments and have also seen 
>> administrators who can only
>> think in terms of complex rule-oriented solutions struggle for 
>> hours and
>> declare that there is no solution.  Like most good puzzles, it's 
>> an object
>> lesson in the value of learning to view problems from more than 
>> one
>> perspective.
>
>  IMO it's not a puzzle, it's a trick question. A puzzle would 
> involve
> solving some logic behind the problem.
>
> -- 
>                                                          - Warp

Occam's razor.

1. If the facts of the case are correctly reported,
the nature of time in Dodge is non-euclidean.
2. The english language is richly laden with
complex mappings between sound, sense and meaning.
3.Either a transdimensional being is posing a
question or a rose is a rose is a rose.


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