From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2006-08-13T05:53:45+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Pen and Paper (#90)

You mean your first solution was cut and paste from the quiz posting?  
That's really cheating!
That's what I did, too, but I was naive enough to believe you wrote a  
script that generated at least one solution. :)

Regards, Morton

On Aug 12, 2006, at 3:33 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Aug 12, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Morton Goldberg wrote:
>
>> ---------------------------------
>> |  1    30   12   2    29   13  |
>> |  20   33   27   15   34   8   |
>> |  11   3    36   31   4    23  |
>> |  26   16   19   7    28   14  |
>> |  21   32   10   22   35   9   |
>> |  18   6    25   17   5    24  |
>> ---------------------------------
>>
>> It took a while for the penny to drop. My question is: how did you  
>> find the _first_ 6 x 6 solution and [how] long did _that_ take?
>
> 'Bout 10 seconds (James time, not computer time).  Did you read the  
> quiz?  ;)
>
> James Edward Gray II