Part 1: Crash Course
Part 2: Component X

You are ready to escape with the desired box. Making sure not to leave any footprints as you exit through the window in the room, you slide down with the box you brought.

You return back to the headquarters, and get set to open the box. It is a difficult task but according to reports, the Contraplexus staff isn't at the office currently, so you unlock the box before they even know it has been taken.

You can see the front has some writing, but you turn your attention to 6 other small rectangular pieces that are in the box as well, which apparently fit somehow in Component X.

They consist of pieces with wire segments, capable of amplifying the power from the single power node on the bottom of the 5 inch by 6 inch rectangular indentation on the component's back. Due to the amount of power required, it is clear that all the wire must be used as amplification, as the possible exit points around the indentation's edges aren't connected.

You discover the wires on the pieces are as shown and that the pieces can be rotated and placed in the indentation in any manner as long as they fit, however the top and bottom of the pieces are different, so they can't be flipped over.



How should you connect these pieces so that the wire path starts at the bottom, and passes through every piece of wire?

I had some problems with that in Square Search, but when I tested it out in another thread, it seemed to be working.

Having previously stolen the schematics for Component X, I can tell you that was the intended way it fits together for an indentation with 6 rows and 5 columns. The copy I have has 5 rows and 6 columns, and thus, is simply your solution rotated clockwise by 90 degrees, starting at the bottom and exitting on the left side at the top.

Posted by Gamer on 2006-12-27 13:53:43