It is strongly recommended that you try
this one first.
Can you hang a painting from three pegs such that the removal of any single peg causes the painting to fall?
(In reply to
here's an idea by macgyver08)
I took the solution with 2 pegs and turned it sideways.
Then I took the two loops over the top and doubled them and split the top peg into two new pegs.
Then I took this double loop and built another version over these two.
It should be possible to extend this to any number of pegs.
/---\
/ \
/ /---\ \
/ / \ \
/ / /---\ \ \
/ / / \ \ \
/ / / /---\ \ \ \
| | | | O | | | |
| | \ \ | |/ /
| | \ \ | | /
| | \ \ |/|/
| | \ \ | |
| | \ X|/|
| | X | |
| | / X|\|
| | / / | |
| | / / |\|\
| | / / | | \
| | / / | |\ \
| | / / | | \ \
| | | | O | | | |
| \ \ \---/ / | /
| \ \ / |/
| \ \---/ |
| \ /|
| \ / |
| \ / |
| \ / |
| \/ |
| /\ |
| | \ |
| | \ /
| | \/
| \ O /\
| --- \
| |
+---------------+
| Painting |
+---------------+
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Posted by Jer
on 2006-06-05 13:16:59 |
This works
