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Have puzzles gone passé? With the advent and subsequent mainstreaming of videogames caused physical toys to go by the wayside? What do you get when you multiply six by nine? The answer to the first two questions is "No," and the last, "42."
The proof that physical puzzles and toys haven’t gone the way of the dodo is here. This little sphere contains a really cool three-dimensional maze with a ball bearing inside. Your job is to get the little ball from one end of the maze to the other. You’ve got to rotate the sphere through all three physical dimensions, and get our old friend gravity to pull the ball through loops, whorls, around corners, up walls, around pits, and across precipices to get from end to end. Don’t worry, for training, there are places in the maze where you can pick up where you failed – call them "save-points" if you must.
More info: Amazing 360 Puzzle Maze Ball
RGS wrote,
The 42 must be Thinkeek logic
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Link | December 11th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
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Link | December 11th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
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Link | December 12th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Ken wrote,
I had this at one point in my life :O
Link | February 1st, 2009 at 8:41 pm
cisum wrote,
6 x 9 does not equal 42 its 54. I’m guessing you weren’t able to solve the puzzle if multiplication slows you down.
Link | July 6th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Julia wrote,
6 x 9 = 54
6 x 7 = 42
42 = the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
but when arthur decides to extract the ultimate question from his brain, he pulls random letters and comes up with:
What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
of course 6 x 9 = 54 and the since the earth experiment was interrupted by golgafrinchans so with the “garbage in, garbage out” rule, the question was wrong. However, 6 x 9 = 15 using base 13 rather than base 10.
of course if both the ultimate question and the ultimate answer were known in the same universe, they will cancel each other out and take the universe with them to be replaced by something even more bizarre. and that may have already happened.
Yeah, it’s a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference.
Link | July 7th, 2009 at 6:32 am
Julia wrote,
oops.
i meant to type 6 x 9 = 54 using a base 13
Link | July 7th, 2009 at 6:34 am