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[SOLVED] #120 - Green Maze - "Cube Tube" (E3)

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joolsweb · Boot Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 39 Location: Wiltshire, UK

Answer?

**Posted:** Sat May 21, 2005 3:24 am

bearq · Boot Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 23 Location: Sydney

hi,
This is what i think.
b,c,a,f,d.

Couldn't get 'e' to fit in.

hope it's right

**Posted:** Sat May 21, 2005 3:30 am

nichtwahr · Boot Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 15

I got B C A F D as well. You could fit E in between B and C, but it'd be a detour.

**Posted:** Sat May 21, 2005 3:33 am

bearq · Boot Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 23 Location: Sydney

'E' looks like a dead end to me. Question

**Posted:** Sat May 21, 2005 3:36 am

NovacaineX

B
C
A
F
D

EDIT: spoilers don't work for images

Razz

**Posted:** Sat May 21, 2005 3:38 am

dusty2229 · Veteran Joined: 14 May 2005 Posts: 128 Location: London

B C A F D
i think

**Posted:** Sat May 21, 2005 3:42 am

tanner

if you gotta go thru every checkpoint then its becafd

**Posted:** Sat May 21, 2005 3:42 am

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bearq · Boot Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 23 Location: Sydney

Yeah,
i get b,e,c,a,f,d if you have to go through every checkpoint,which it doesn't say you have to, but then again it doesn't say you can't backtrack either.

**Posted:** Sat May 21, 2005 3:57 am

SteveC · Unfettered Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 381

backtracking wouldn't be the shortest route.

BCAFD

**Posted:** Sat May 21, 2005 5:32 am

invfish · Veteran Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 144 Location: Sydney

I am going with BECAFD..

although if I do the maze backwards I come up with either :

BCEAFD
BECAFD

Which both have the exactly the same length. BECAFD can be done two ways and one of those ways happens to be shorter than the rest =)

EDIT: *typo 'one' shouldve read 'way', which is does now =) (got all excited and typed fast)*[/b]

tanner

i agree -- the shortest route if all checkpoints have to be visited has to involve backtracking -- checkpoints in rallying all have to be visited - thats why they are called CHECKpoints Very Happy

**Posted:** Sat May 21, 2005 6:05 am

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Leeravitz

Ambiguous card wording, eh?? I suppose 'shortest possible route' might just mean 'without repeating any checkpoint twice' (not sure if that's easy to do, actually...), so 'B,E,C,A,F,D' would then be appropriate, even if it's not the shortest *possible* route if we ignore some of the checkpoints...

While we're at it, is there a specific drawing that the maze is inspired by? I figured it was very like an Escher print that I'd once seen, but I can't remember which one...

And, again, we have a string of letters for answer which doesn't seem to yield very much...

**Posted:** Sat May 21, 2005 9:23 am

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sixsidedsquare · Unfettered Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 409 Location: 60E

surely 'shortest possible route' has to mean not including checkpoint e as, like people have said, it is a detour. There really is only one route through the maze, so the 'shortest' path must cut off the detour, otherwise it would just be THE path, not 'the shortest'.
Hope that's actualy readable..

**Posted:** Sat May 21, 2005 9:58 am

Leeravitz

Unless it's simply shorthand for 'shortest route encompassing all the checkpoints'. Agreed - it would take some doing to come up with a longer route...

As the answer seems pretty unrevelatory anyway, I guess the jury has to remain out on this one, until such time as more information is revealed...

**Posted:** Sat May 21, 2005 11:26 am

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