cube #1 - 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
cube #2 - 0, 1, 2, 5, 7, 8
missing a 9?? (flip the 6)
c.
>From: Scott MacLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Puzzler of the week
>Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 12:52:52 -0400
>
>This week's puzzler:
>
>Imagine you have in front of you two cardboard cubes. They can
be
>any size. You also have a magic marker.
>
>There's nothing written on these cubes -- yet. You're going to
write
>something on them with the magic marker. You'd like to use
these
>cubes to represent the date.
>
>For example, if today is the 3rd of the month, the two cubes
would
>be next to each other and one would have a zero and the other
would
>have a three. If it was the 22nd, it would be a two and a two.
>
>You've got six sides on each cube, and with those six sides you
need
>to be able to represent every single date.
>
>Here's a hint: Think outside of the box.
>
>How do you do it?
>
>Last week's puzzler:
>
>This puzzler comes from the wonderful world of the cinema. The
story
>opens with our three protagonists escaping from a chain gang.
In the
>opening scene, they're chained together and running to catch a
slow
>moving freight train.
>
>The leader of the gang, Everett, is the first one to jump into
what
>he thinks is an empty boxcar. The others, meanwhile, are still
>running along side.
>
>The moment he is inside, Everett's confronted not with an empty
>boxcar but by three hobos. Considering that the protagonists'
most
>urgent need is to get their shackles removed, Everett asks the
>following question: "Any of you boys happen to be a smithy or
>otherwise versed in the metallurgical arts?"
>
>But before he can get an answer, one of his comrades slips and
falls
>and Everett is yanked out of the car and the train takes off.
>
>Now here's the question. When Everett asked the question the
hobos
>all looked at him blankly, because it didn't make sense.
>
>Why not?
>
>Last week's puzzler answer:
>
>Remember the first line or two of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's
>famous poem, "Under a spreading chestnut tree, the village
smithie
>stands, the smith, a mighty man is he, with large and sinewy
hands."
>The first few words are crucial. A smithie is the building, so
when
>Everett asks, "Any of you boys happen to be a smithie," he's
asking
>them, "Are you a building where blacksmithing is done?" and, of
>course, they couldn't possibly be.
>
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