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Try this for a change!

#2616
From: Hector Garcia
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 20:53
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OK, so you may have seen this puzzle many times before.
Excuse me if it has been posted previously!
I don't remember exactly where I saw it first but the instructions 
go something like this:

GOAL:  Connect the pairs of boxes with the same label. ie [1] with [1],
       [2] with [2], and [3] with [3]. The connections must be made by 
       drawing a continuous line sourcing from one of the boxes
       and terminating at the other.
       By a continuous line I mean anything you can draw WITHOUT
       lifting your pencil.


RULES: 1)Lines connecting different pairs of boxes should not intersect.

       2)No drawing is allowed outside of the big box.


                                 This is the big box.
	        _______________ /
	       |     | 1 |     |
	       |     |___|     |
	       |      ___      |
	       |     | 2 |     |
	       |     |___|     |
	       |___         ___|
	       | 3 |       | 3 |
	       |___|       |___|
	       |      ___      |
	       |     | 1 |     |
	       |     |___|     |
	       |      ___      |
	       |     | 2 |     |
	       |_____|___|_____|

Enjoy.

PS/ Topologists, and Graph Theoreticians shall prove the impossibility of this!
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Hector C. Garcia			City College of New York
hector@sci.ccny.cuny.edu		Electrical Engineereing Dept.
eehcg@ees1s0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu
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