Eternity II, puzzle with US$2 million prize

zhong · Post by **zhong** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:37 pm

http://au.eternityii.com/

has anyone try to solve this f**kin'

puzzle??? took me 10 mins, and i gave up

maggsy · Post by **maggsy** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:20 pm

i thought i was getting close but then i got to the last 4 pieces and thought

"i've f*****d this up"

way too hard so i too gave up

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:25 pm

Well, Im a little confused.
I followed all the rules, and solved it in under 4 minutes, but when I hit submit, it says it's not a valid solution. Looks good to me. I bet if you solve the real thing they'll come up with a similar response so you dont get the prize money.

Invalid solution my ass...

lwrida · Post by **lwrida** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:29 pm

Sparhawk, I copied your excatly and got a game over.. Congratulations you have completed the game

zhong · Post by **zhong** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:33 pm

that's the demo version, it has 16 pieces (4x4) only. Eternity II has 256 pieces (16x16)

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showf ... r=11383053

There's 256 pieces, which can be arranged in 256 factorial ways. That's a huge number - my windows calculator shows it's 8.6x10^506.

It's actually a bit smaller because the corner and edge pieces can only be placed certain way.

But then again, all pieces can be rotated.

I think the formula for 256 pieces that can be rotated 4 ways that do NOT have borders and corners is 4^256 x 256! = 10^661 or so.

That number of combinations is, of course, impossible to compute.

maybe we could gather all FTOAustralia members to solve this puzzle lol.

topao · Post by **topao** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:58 am

mine isnt good enough either

topao · Post by **topao** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:20 am

Got it second time in 2mins 28sec

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:08 pm

lwrida wrote:Sparhawk, I copied your excatly and got a game over.. Congratulations you have completed the game

Must just hate me then

topao wrote: Got it second time in 2mins 28sec

Guess its easier when you know the solution...

zhong wrote:Eternity II has 256 pieces (16x16)

Piece of p*ss. But I'm not going to do it now out of principle...