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From: Bruce Stephens <bruce@liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Nudge, please:  Magic Toyshop
In-Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.co.uk's message of Wed, 18 Oct 1995 08:33:33 GMT
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>>>>> "nobody" == nobody  <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> writes:

> In article <we68hont2u.fsf@iasc3.scm.liv.ac.uk> Bruce Stephens
> <bruce@liverpool.ac.uk> writes:
From> Bruce Stephens <bruce@liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject> Re: Nudge, please: Magic Toyshop
Date> Tue, 17 Oct 1995 13:22:17 GMT


>>>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Demause <neild@echonyc.com> writes:
>>> Well, Catherine also tells you that it's a parity puzzle. (Though
>>> if you don't know how parity works, you're screwed.) Not that this
>>> helped me solve it, though.

>> I think this one requires cheating, and I don't know how.  My guess
>> is I don't have an appropriate object.

> You *don't* have to cheat to solve the dots puzzle!

I know that.  This is the robot cat/mouse puzzle, which does require
cheating!

> Alison <richards@logica.com>
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Bruce                   Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
bruce@liverpool.ac.uk   University of Liverpool
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