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If anyone tries them, and manages to solve 6, I’d be really grateful to get a clue. Without spoiling, let me just say that I cannot figure out how to get it to work with only 4 nails.
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They’re long nails.
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10 minutes here too. Does it matter what order you do it in? After I figured out what was going on it seemed pretty simple but I half suspect that I was lucky in that there were always plenty of options for formulating the numbers.
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I think I did it from lowest to highest. I kept forgetting which button did what, and had to start over; after I was done I realized that the upside-down button “dumped” the number to the middle, and the right-side up button “received” the number. If I’d had that idea straight, it would’ve gone faster.
But yeah, if you do lowest to highest, I think that’ll give the fastest results.
Daniel
4 Minutes. The title of the game gave it away, and I worked lowest to highest. Might have been quicker if I wasn’t anal about keeping the lower numbers in the system.
15 minutes, though some time was wasted because I clicked the wrong button and had to start over.
14 minutes, including all the time to screw around aimlessly with the buttons, figure out what was going on, reset quite a few times when I press the ‘in’ instead of the ‘out’ (I’m always confused by binary choices. Not going to be put in charge of the nuclear button any time soon)
Took me 5 minutes; I wasn’t really hurrying. As soon as I got into it, the principles began to feel very familiar - I guess my computer architecture / processor design class finally paid off. 