Message #2900

From: Roice Nelson <roice3@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] RE: MPUltimate 1.5
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:55:21 -0600

Feels impossible to pick one, so I’ll cheat and just narrow to 3 favorites.
I’m glad they all exist.

• Rubik’s Cube, the root of all our permutation puzzle creativity.
  
• MC4D, especially the superliminal implementation. Dimensional analogy
  is awesome.
  
• Andrey’s Magic Hyperbolic Tile {6,3,3}: I can’t say it is my favorite
  to solve (because I haven’t), but the abstractions are fantastic. Jump a
  dimension, change the geometry, and let the puzzle faces become a shape
  you’d never expect.

Even narrowing to 3 is difficult because there have been so many really
nice puzzles here over the years. Nan’s 11-cell is great, and I like the
MagicTile KQ puzzle too. I can say this… I’m super partial to
permutation puzzles, especially those with some kind of mathematical
abstraction that makes them impossible to manufacture in the physical
world. In other words, all the stuff we discuss here :D

Looking forward to hearing Melinda’s and other’s favorites!

Roice

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com>wrote:

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> Andrey, unfortunately I can’t find the puzzle anywhere, but the
> description sounds ugly. So you don’t think that you could solve dotto if
> you had to? You solved the other sporadic simple group puzzles, and we all
> suspect that you have magic powers.
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> Nan, I’m not considering puzzles to be hard just because they’re big. The
> more I think about it, the more I’m starting to suspect that "hard" is a
> fuzzy and subjective concept. "Hard for its size" is another concept that I
> thought made sense, but now I want to include some form of elegance
> criterion as well, so I think that I’ll just let go of the concept
> altogether and just think in terms of favorites instead.
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> So here is a question for everyone: Of all the puzzles in the world, which
> is the one that you are most glad for simply existing? My answer is fairly
> clear though I don’t want to influence anyone by naming it up front.
>
> -Melinda
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> On 1/19/2014 9:17 PM, andreyastrelin@yahoo.com wrote:
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> > If there exist any puzzles that humans really can’t solve, I don’t know
> of them. Do you?
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> What about "dotto" game from this page:
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> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=puzzles-simple-groups-at-play
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> It’s the game in 24 dimensions!
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> Andrey
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