Ok, anyone who read the previous post saw that I had put a puzzle up for people to try and figure out. As the posting says, I was shown it in grade 8 and it has haunted be for years. Thanks to Axe on MonctonLocals.Com, he gave me a suggestion that allowed me to solve the puzzle, while still following the rules given to me. Admittedly, it is sort of cheating as I am sure the puzzle was not meant to be solved this way. Read on for details.
The puzzle cannot be solved in the conventional way it was intended. Using a flat sheet of paper, trying to draw it out, it will never happen. As of this moment, my program has tried to do the puzzle a little over 6 million times and has never found a solution. You can however find one, if you think three dimensionally.
In order to solve this, take your sheet of paper and fold it in half. Take the top part of the fold and fold it backward towards where the sheet is actually bent in half. If you hold it right, you should see a sheet that looks similar to the letter “Z” with the bottom part of the letter being twice as long as the top.
Place the folded sheet so that the upper fold (top part of the Z) is facing you. The top part of the Z should be facing you with the fold going inward and then outward again.
Do these moves but the vertical lines should END at the exact point of the fold.
13, 34, 42, 23
At this point you should have 2 vertical lines, a horizontal line along the fold, and a diagonal line connecting the rightmost vertical at the top to the leftmost vertical at the bottom.
Now do 384. When you do this, it should draw the curve/point on the lower part of the paper, hence the reason for the fold and it will bring you to position 4. Simply unfold the paper and continue with these moves
41,12,274,483,351,162
VOILA! Puzzle solved!
I really don’t think the puzzle was designed to be solved like this but none the less, it can be done. It just has to be done in an unusual way.
