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

[Stephen Hooper]

On 4/11/07, Christopher Robbins <robbinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/11/07, Stephen Hooper <stephen.hooper at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Solution #2: (the clever way)
> > >
> > > 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.
>
>
> No no, that's only if YOU open the lid.  Nothing remarked about anyone else
> opening the lid.  Thus, this
> solution does work - you aren't disqualified from flipping the switches
> because the other schmuck opened
> the lid for you.
>

Which then seems to contradict, "You're only allowed to flip the
switches while the lid is closed."