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Solution time!
Variation 1:
There are two bricks on top, and three on bottom. Therefore, the total number of times you must pass through the horizontal line must be both three and two. Last I checked 3 isn't equal to 2, so this puzzle is impossible.
Variation 2:
For each rectangle, unless you started or ended the line within the rectangle, there must be exactly one exit for every entrance. So except for the starting rectangle and ending rectangle, you must enter and exit each rectangle an even number of times. However, there are three rectangles that require an odd number of entrances and exits. Therefore, this variation is impossible as well.
So, I hope no one has wasted too much time thinking that there must be a solution.
Off and on for 20 years I've tried to solve this puzzle. Thanks for setting me free. My 6th grade math teacher should be punished for giving this out, saying there was a "solution" and never letting us know that the solution was that it is impossible. Just pure evil.
Actually there is a solution to the five brick puzzle, proposed by the German mathematician Euler. He maintained that since a line has only one dimension (length), it can be FOLLOWED without CROSSING it. Try this "route": Draw the five bricks and number each line segment for reference purposes, starting with the horizontal line segments, working left to right from the top left hand segment. There are 9 horizontal segments. Then starting with the upper left vertical segment, number the vertical segments. There are 7 vertical segments, for a total of 16 line segments in all.
Start inside the upper right-hand brick and exit through segment 2; re-enter across 12; enter the lower right-hand brick across 6,and exit across 16; re-enter the lower right brick across 9 and exit (thereby entering the centre-lower brick) across 15; continue across the brick and exit across 14, thereby entering the lower left hand brick; exit the brick across 7, re-enter across 13, and exit across 3, thereby entering the upper left hand brick; exit the brick across 10 and re-enter across 1 and exit again across 11, thereby entering the upper right hand brick; note there are only three line segments not crossed yet: 4, 5, and 8; exit the brick across 5, thus entering the lower centre brick and exit across 4 thus entering the upper left hand brick; now comes Euler's solution: FOLLOW line segment 14 from the top (inside th eupper leeft hand brick) to the bottom thus exiting the puzzle and then cross segment 8 from the outside, thus re-entering the lower centre brick. You have completed the puzzle.
Nice, but in my statement of the problem, I ruled that you can't go through corners. In your solution, you've gone through the corner at the intersection of 3, 4, and 14 (as well as another corner at 7, 8, and 14). Anyways, if we were allowed to go through corners, why not just go through the intersection of segments 10 and 1? That would also solve the problem just as well.
But I don't mean to steal away any sense achievement you got out of it. I say take what you can get from this evil puzzle and run.
Once again, not impossible. Fold the paper over the horizontal line (actually, it's a Z fold) and you can then figure out how to do it by unfolding after crossing one line. You've got to think outside the box, or in this case, the brick!
My math teacher said that she has been trying to solve this puzzle for 50 years- every since her elementary school math teacher showed it to her, saying it was impossible. But my math teacher didn't believe her and is still trying to figure it out...
Mark and Cari,
I'm happy you found a solution you like, but please, no all-caps nagging. Personally, I think it is just as satisfying, and involves just as much thinking outside the box to figure out that the puzzle is indeed impossible (given a few implicit assumptions, such as no folding paper). Most people would consider folding the paper to be cheating. It's hard to cheat oneself into self-satisfaction!
In short, I appreciate your attempts to help the escapees of this mindtrap, but I don't think it will work!
In my opinion, there can be no assumptions in a mind-teasing puzzle. The instructions were very clear, and I've never seen a version with different instructions. But I'll agree that "assuming" no folding, it is impossible. The folding bit is where the thinking outside the box comes into play!
As someone who has written puzzles, I must respectfully disagree that there are never any implicit assumptions. When I write puzzles, I always expect people to give me the exact same answer I thought of, regardless of whether there are any other valid solutions! (I kid, I kid.)
hello im a 15 yr old boy been trying to do this puzzle for 2 years my art teacher done this puzzle in front of me and i was really shocked then he tore it up and said he would give any pupil 25 if they could do it and he gave me a clue a butterfly and sliced bread so use them clues and try to find out how to do it
A butterfly and sliced bread? Why didn't I think of it earlier!! It's all clear. Starting in the top right exit through segment G2. Re-enter through segment A1. Complete a small horse-shoe shape through segments a thru e covering sub-segments 1-6. With this covered, it should become obvious that you are left with two segments reachable through a straight line.
Hope this helps (p.s. in my 58 years of puzzle writing, I have never managed to find anything so intellectually refreshing.)
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wtf this puzzle is gay. my math teacher says he knows its possible without cheatiing. there are 2 billion 900 thousand ways to do it wrong and 1 way to do it right. so if u say its impossible email james hughs or LMB
They have this puzzle at the bottom of the Patrona Towers in Kula Lumpur, I went away annoyed I couldn't solve it. However it was a fixed wooden structure with pegs in the corners and string, so a fold was impossible, therefore rendering the solution impossible also.
Can I tag another puzzle that I've been struggling with on this thread?:
You are given 6 identical sized wooden blocks to fit into a box. The 6 wooden blocks are 2x2x1 in size (like a square shaped book) and the box inside area is 3x3x3 (like a Rubix Cube). Can it be done? I don't have a solution, can anyone help?!!
That's the first I've heard of a physical implementation of this puzzle. I bet most people in Kuala Lumpur would try to tell you it was possible (keeping the legend alive).
The six wooden blocks puzzle can be done. No unusual block orientations are required, but the solution is difficult to describe without a picture.
I solved this last night with the parameter; that each of the 16 segments must be crossed only once with a single line of any shape. The friend who showed me this last night has not found anyone in 15 years that could solve the puzzle. Took me about 2 hours of playing with to figure out that could be solved. Another 1 1/2 hours to get close. Prayed and asked the Big Guy to make me smart enough to get it and I did get it with his helpafter about another 1/2 hour. The
solution is quite simple and elegant once you see it. Involves a 3/4 circle in the centre intersection and another 3/4 circle in the bottom 2nd vertical bar and the baseline. That should be a decent hint for someone else to get it.
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the answer is, for example if u want to pass through each line segment once through the puzzle, u cant , there are an odd number of line segments if there were 8 10 12 etc. u would be able to do it its like the puzzle with 17 door ways and u r supposed to go through the house inside and out and go through all dorr ways without going through one twice, it's impossible, there has to be and even # of lines of whatever, really simple really
Miller, you said that variation 2 is impossible 'unless if you started or ended the line within the rectangle'. Does that mean it's possible if you start or finish inside a brick, while doing variation 2? If so, wouldn't it count as a valid solution, seeing as there's no indication of where you're allowed to start/end and it didn't seem implied? If there's no solution with this method either, it'd be nice to know. Cheers.
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