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 Saturday, 26 February 2005 12:33 PM
I tried it for about 10 minutes yesterday, then the answer came to me after some thought later that evening. I tried my solution out today, and I was right. I'd like to say it came to me "in a flash of insight", but really the solution didn't. It simply came to me after I considered the evidence that had been shown me, then visualized the puzzle in my head, and narrowed the solution set down based on the puzzle as visualized. Once the solution set was sufficiently narrow, iterating through the possibe solutions led easily to the realization of which solution was correct. Going back to the puzzle web site to re-try the puzzle was just a verification step.
The most important clues for me were:
*The answers are always even
*The answers are always in the range 0-20, with many more occuring toward the low end of the range.
*Dice are used, only one face is shown, and die faces are symmetric by rotation.
*There are many dice throws which differ by only one dice, but which have the same answer.
The above clues eliminate a lot of possible answers. The final clue is the name of the puzzle itself.
On other sites, some people who have solved the puzzle seem rather indignant about having solved it so quickly! To them I say, the beauty of the puzzle needs to be found in the puzzle itself...
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