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Eternity II, puzzle with US$2 million prize
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:37 pm
by zhong
http://au.eternityii.com/
has anyone try to solve this f**kin'
puzzle??? took me 10 mins, and i gave up
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:20 pm
by maggsy
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
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:25 pm
by Sparhawk
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...
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:29 pm
by lwrida
Sparhawk, I copied your excatly and got a game over.. Congratulations you have completed the game
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:33 pm
by zhong
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.
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:58 am
by topao
mine isnt good enough either
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:20 am
by topao
Got it second time in 2mins 28sec
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:08 pm
by Sparhawk
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...