Confusion wanted
Once again we have received a complaint from one of our readers. An excerpt:
When think again! started, I was often confused by the way the problems were formulated. For a long time I thought the blog was made by a Swede whose twenty-second language was English and had the IQ of an average cat. Surprisingly as it may seems, this is what kept me reading the blog. The confusion it created appealed to a side of me I didn’t know existed, and that I would like to get aquainted with. Now, however, almost five years later, the confusion has all gone. Now the problems are clearly formulated and it makes me wonder what happened to the cat. Has the blog been sold to someone who does not like pets, and, if so, where did the original author go?
Today’s problem is the best answer I could come up with.
Challenge: join just 10 cubic blocks together to make three puzzle pieces that interlock to form a puzzle having threefold axial symmetry. Impossible? Of course, if you assume that the blocks are joined face-to-face. But when cubic blocks are joined by their half-faces or quarter-faces, many new possibilities arise, as well as hopeless confusion!
Problem creator: Stewart T. Coffin.
April 10th, 2009 at 5:41 am
I’m not sure it’s possible for someone to speak 22 languages with the IQ of a cat. Other than that great post!
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