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I remember those puzzles. Are you sure there was no way for a child to prune the search space?
by teruakohatu 5y ago
I remember those puzzles.
Are you sure there was no way for a child to prune the search space?
- gnarbarian 5y agoturns out it was a puzzle and OP is blind.
- blibble 5y agoI found the pictures I took after beating my childhood nemesis https://imgur.com/a/ICIBZCw https://imgur.com/a/ICIBZCw and https://imgur.com/a/JOWkTsp https://imgur.com/a/JOWkTsp have a go, though I think that was the strategy I was using as a child (and the box actually says 6+... mean)
- marcosdumay 5y agoYes, you can prune that thing severely. I imagine nearly all branches can be discarded after 5 tiles are positioned and the initial set is invariant to rotations, what leads to "only" many tens of thousands of possibilities. I hated with a passion those puzzles when I was a child, and the people that claimed that they measured intelligence. I had better things to do than mindlessly rearranging pieces in a board until they fit! Strangely, I have much more patience for that now.