Re: Riddles (was: Lateral Thinking)

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 22:10:11 MST


At 05:15 PM 5/01/01 -0500, xgl wrote:

>i'm *inside* the
>bigger box, so i can follow eliezer's key (hehe) to unlock both boxes.

This assumes, as Emlyn did, that the big lock is reachable, and can be
keyed, from the inside. Won't work with padlocks (which is how I always
lock my wooden boxes).

My assumption is that this is a logical poser, not an exercise in
gymnastics or topology.

Damien Broderick



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