[Tfug] [OT] Solution: A good brainteaser to flex your sad and flabby hacker brain muscles.

[Stephen Hooper]

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> Solution #2: (the clever way)
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> Push the box back across the table to the Unix administrator, and ask
> him to open it for you. The rules state that the person who opens the
> lid is not allowed to touch the switches ever again. If someone else
> opens the lid, then you can manipulate the switches freely.

I am sorry, but that contradicts your original email:

"If you open the lid, you're not allowed to touch any of the switches
ever again."

He would have to be willing to flip the switches for you as well.