Einstein's puzzle: Can you sovle it?
- Thread starter Molon Labe
- Start date
Quote from LongShot:
you solved the puzzle with brute force, changing the positions around randomly until you found something that fit (so did aphie with his matrix) , that circumvents the meaning of the puzzle and is akin to cheating. you have been disqualified (tell aphie he is out as well). shame shame on the both of you...
I solved it the correct way ...with the proverbial pen on the back of an envelope (and LOGIC)
Yep, I agree. Once I got about 80% through, I was stuck finding a logical answer to the end (albeit it was staring right at me), I had two alternatives to choose from and found one that worked. I was very unhappy with that way out b/c there had to be a logical step-by-step solution and a few minutes later found it (it was that beer/bluemaster had to go to the 5th house and then everything else followed.)
Nice puzzle though.
i have a bone to pick with einstein as well ...
he said the ..."The green house is at the left side of the white one."
BUT he didn't say immediately positioned at the left side. this might mean a few houses away at the left. i had to make the assumption that what he really meant was RIGHT TO THE LEFT.
this assumption added 42 secs to my time
hold your horses. i did the same thing anyone else would do with a pencil and a piece of paper. just because i used excel does not mean i did not use logic and just moved things around til they fit. i could explain step by step how i solved it.Quote from LongShot:
you solved the puzzle with brute force, changing the positions around randomly until you found something that fit (so did aphie with his matrix) , that circumvents the meaning of the puzzle and is akin to cheating. you have been disqualified (tell aphie he is out as well). shame shame on the both of you...
I solved it the correct way ...with the proverbial pen on the back of an envelope (and LOGIC)
He's just pulling your chain.
I used a matrix, like other people mentioned, and
little logic nodes connected with arrows to show the relationships
to logically solve it. ( Years ago when I first saw it ).
No brute force is required with a matrix approach.
Although I kinda cheated on the last step... I had
two possibilities left without a clue to which was the
correct one, so I just plugged both in to see which worked.
End of problem. Im sure there was a logical clue somehere,
but SOMETIMES brute force is the most efficient method.
Deep Blue beat Kasparov using brute fruce, after years and
years of people working on complex algorithms to beat him.
Guess they finally gave up, and decided a few thousand
processors would do the job just fine
peace
axeman
I used a matrix, like other people mentioned, and
little logic nodes connected with arrows to show the relationships
to logically solve it. ( Years ago when I first saw it ).
No brute force is required with a matrix approach.
Although I kinda cheated on the last step... I had
two possibilities left without a clue to which was the
correct one, so I just plugged both in to see which worked.
End of problem. Im sure there was a logical clue somehere,
but SOMETIMES brute force is the most efficient method.
Deep Blue beat Kasparov using brute fruce, after years and
years of people working on complex algorithms to beat him.
Guess they finally gave up, and decided a few thousand
processors would do the job just fine
peace
axeman
Quote from LongShot:
i have a bone to pick with einstein as well ...
he said the ..."The green house is at the left side of the white one."
BUT he didn't say immediately positioned at the left side. this might mean a few houses away at the left. i had to make the assumption that what he really meant was RIGHT TO THE LEFT.
this assumption added 42 secs to my time
You don't need to make the assumption that the green house is next to the white one. It follows from the original clues.
