From cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Wed Jul 16 09:37:39 1997 Return-Path: cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Received: from oolong.camellia.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oolong.camellia.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA12856; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 09:37:38 -0400 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Message-ID: From: "joyner.david" To: "'cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu'" Subject: RE: hockey puck puzzle Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 07:53:21 -0400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.994.63 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >---------- >From: Jan de Ruiter[SMTP:jandr@apd.dec.com] >Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 1997 7:42 AM >To: Allan Wechsler >Cc: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu >Subject: Re: hockey puck puzzle > >> >> Please give a clearer description of the puck. The photo gives only a >> slight clue about how many pieces there are, and how they are >> arranged. Are there twelve pieces, or twenty-four, or more? Spencer Robinson, a former student, and I have written a WWW page which sketches an easy but rather inefficient solution of the 12 piece hockey puck puzzle: http://www.nadn.navy.mil/MathDept/wdj/mball/puck.htm Have fun! - David Joyner >> >> -A >> >