Matt Grimaldi wrote: >Erik Reuter wrote: > >>I should probably mention that I don't know the answer to this puzzle. I >>got it off of a puzzle list on a web page, and the web page author also >>did not know the solution. I've been working on it for a few days now. >> >I can see the way to 6 cigarettes (without bending or breaking any) >after a few minutes of visualizing... > I can see the 6 (a 2-story triangle, slightly offset), but I wonder about the mental processes Erik is using to keep working on this for a few days. Are you using maths, cigarettes or visualisation? I would have thought new ideas would become progressively scarcer until it wasn't worth pondering; and for an engineer, the ideas would have come fairly quickly... Shows a lot more determination than I could muster. (What's the web page, BTW ?)
Cheers Russell C.
