An Obsessive Journey

On my 24th birthday my flatmate gave me a puzzle. It wasn't just any puzzle, it was 'One Tough Puzzle', both in name and in practise. At first glance, the notion that there are 300,000 ways not to solve this puzzle and only one way to complete it, seems rather excessive. There are after all, only nine pieces. Yet, after a few tries, I started to realise just how tough this puzzle really was, and I found myself on a quest to solve it.

I have created this blog, by way of documenting my mistakes and formulating a strategy. I am, though, scared at every moment that someone might come along, ask to have a go and solve it instantly. Something tells me there cannot be a method, and only pure dumb luck in solving this bastard.

Saturday, 24 July 2010

Equipment

This is what I have to work with, as you can see there are diamonds, clubs, spades and hearts. I haven't quite figured out if there are a certain number of each that do a certain number of things, for example, I cannot see any example of two diamonds being adjacent to one another either as outer or inner shapes. However, the spades and clubs appear this way once each, one way or another. It seems that part of the problem is that there are so many combinations for the pieces themselves, that this is only one fairly random set. So far, I just can't find a pattern. I might have to learn each piece individually.

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