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Sean · Guest

Can three houses be connected to three utilities without the pipes crossing? Remember each house must have a connection from each utility.

_______ _______ ______
| oil | |water| | gas |
|_____| |_____| |_____|

_______ _______ _______
|HOUSE| |HOUSE| |HOUSE|
| one | | two | |three |

Guest · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:54 pm Post subject:

Connect a line from all three utilities to all three houses. Hope this diagram is clearer than the one above.

House 1 House 2 House 3

Oil Gas Water

i luv solvin riddles · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:01 am Post subject:

i have no idea wat to do but i dont think this is even a riddle, its more of a skills challenge to c how clever u r (ok, what i said probably made it sound like a riddle but im just weird). im not gonan try to do it but i have seen something like this b4 and u have to cheat to do it

some-g · Site Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 188

Well, if each house has a line to the utility across from it that satisfies the first part. Then if the houses share three 3 pipes between each of them then each house has a connection to each utility satisfying the last part. And, with no crossed pipes.

Riddleman · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 595

i dont know what to do in this one

deryk · Guy Who Comes A Lot Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 159

my answer is no, i tried drawing it and no way works

arukomp · New Member Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 1

Answer is NO, i have a book with that riddle and the answer is no. It's not possible Smile

GameMaster · Site Regular Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 55

All nay sayers... It can be done.
Your book is wrong:

http://game-master.us/ridpipe.jpg

Uplink_Agent · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject:

The right most house (top row) does not connect to the bottom middle utility

GameMaster · Site Regular Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 55

Hm, didn't catch that... I'll take a look at it, and repost when I have something. If I can't figgure out a way, I will go looking for a poof saying it is impossible.

Unclever title · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject:

I have a pseudo-solution, however, I have found that I do not know how to upload an image fro my computer onto a forum or any website for that matter, if someone could help me with that then I'll have my answer up in a jiffy.

As for why I call it a pseudo-solution... well, you'll just have to wait and see...

Maiden · New Member Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 42

All you have to do is but each of the things you need in each house. This kid gave me the same riddle. For example. You put oil in one house, gas in one house, and water in one house. Then you run a pipe from each house to connect with the other and then you connect a pipe to the last house encircle the house from above and connect it with the first house. Its confusing to explain. Basicly if all the houses are side by side you connect a pipe from the first house to the second and then the second to the third. Then connect a pipe from the last to the first house.

I hope this helps....

|---------------------------------- |
| |
|----H/O------H/G-------H/W----|

some-g · Site Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 188

exactly maiden, that's what i was saying... pipes between the houses is the key.

too bad the text won't line up properly : )

Unclever title · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:52 am Post subject:

Okay I think I got something here, sorry for the quality the site I used required the image to be less than 250 Kb which turned a nice pretty picture into a ugly beast!!

The thin portion on the green line is where the gas line goes, not under another line, but under the house, this is why I call it a pseudo-solution as it technically is not crossing lines, however, it does make use of the third dimension which was probably not the intended solution.

Well here it be

(Edit)
Or so it should be, but somehow it doesn't show up on my 'puter, and I've edited this a few times having thus tried placing it as a link, which has utterly failed to show up at all, probably as it says HTML is off even though my profile is set to always allow it. Hmm...

Well I hope some of you can see it.