Celebrating Puzzles

Doofus writes "The New York Times is running an article, Celebrating puzzles, that is about a puzzle exhibit opening at the Lilly Library at Indiana University. The primary collector, a Mr. Slocum, has been collecting interesting and challenging 3D puzzles for many years, and has helped to curate the exhibition. The article describes one variation of the towers of Hanoi puzzle that involves 65 rings and has a mind-blowing 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 moves in a perfect solution. A twist on the standard museum exhibition — the puzzles on exhibit are stored each night in drawers — that must be puzzled open by the first visitors the following morning."

Comments

twist

[Threni]

> A twist on the standard museum exhibition - the puzzles on exhibit are stored each night in drawers
> - that must be puzzled open by the first visitors the following morning."

Wow, that sounds as original and...uh..fun...as those tedious games where you get crappy cars/characters until you've played for ages and improved them. As a paying customer/gamer I expect to be having fun straight out of the box. I guess if I visit this place I'll turn up in the afternoon and hope some sad bastards got there early!

Re:twist

[rgravina]

But this is a puzzle exbibition... you'd expect that the patrons would enjoy solving puzzles, or they wouldn't even be going there. Captain Obvious saves the day!

Re:The best puzzle is easy

[Turn-X Alphonse]

Because if both companies got together and fixed the amounts it would be illegal. remember companies arn't allowed to fix sizes or prices between them.