I have to say I could do the frog puzzle...
And also managed 20 seconds on that after some trials...
But your puzzle, Michael, keeps me thinking and after 4 days really hard thinking I'm frustrated. I tried to apply logic to it but in my opinion there can be no solution. Argh... well, congratulations again, it means you win again.
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I don't really know if I can claim a win this time. Technically you are right Christian. There is no solution to this puzzle if you do it with pen and paper.
SCIENCE ALERT, skip this part if you are easily scared by science ;-)
What we need to be able to connect all these is a so called planar graph. The target graph we are trying to achieve (a complete bipartite graph on six vertices, by the way) is not one of them. The corresponding (simplified) theorem would be
If the number of vertices is greater than 3 (6 in this case) and there are no cycles of length 3, then the number of edges has to be smaller than 2 * vertices - 4 (so 8 in this case). That is why you normaly wouldn't be able to draw the 9th edge...
...BUT
you can use a small glitch in the flash programming to complete it anyway. For the last edge draw until you almost touch a house or one of the 3 supplies, hold the left mouse button, and click the right one so the context menu pops up. Move your mouse past the obstacle and left click. The line then connects through it and you can finish the puzzle.
Meanwhile you can already watch the solution on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFegXJcQX88
So you be the judge...
Michael
To be honest, after having written that post, I couldn't resist any more and I found the "solution" on google, too. So what should I do: naming you the winner or not? Taking into account that it wasn't a REAL Challenge, that Nadja is complaining and you are behind with letting me know your topic for the last time, I won't name an official winner.
How can I put this in words... It's OK with me that there's no winner, but for the wrong reasons! Nadja, what are you complaining about? It's not my problem if you can't keep up with me! ;-) And I also remember someone saying "OMG, I don't have time right now. Please wait at least 6 months until you name a topic". ;-) Anyone else remembers that? Volunteers?
Are you complaining about me on my own blog?;-)
I guess I should make it more obvious when I try to be ironic and when not... (e.g. "wrong reasons", "full schedule")
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