Help with a puzzle please! Im stumped.

Its a live puzzle so you’ll need to goto the site and enter the code:

http://www.puzzleadventure.com/

Click Existing Users then Enter: T6GYB4NG

Good Luck. Its the last of 50, and a doozie!

Sometimes I cant get the page to load when I enter it, if I type Puzzle Adventure into yahoo tho, it loads just fine if I click the link (about 5 down) w/ the same URL. Weird???

It says I need a sixteen digit password.

Thats Odd. Ive been using that password for days now on many different computers. try again?

Passwords to that site are supposed to be found by solving a puzzle that has to be purchased for $15. I’m pretty sure that posting your password on a messageboard is not something that they would appreciate, and is probably against some sort of terms of service or something.

Thanks for your help Joe. I really need this answer. Someone please help.

Heres the puzzle in print:

The Pharaoh’s cook is extremely fussy about how his kitchen looks. He has a big, square box of 81 eggs (9 rows with 9 eggs in each row). He’s about to make an enourmous 48 egg omelette for the Pharaoh’s family, but can’t bear to leave an unsymmetrical pattern of eggs in the box. In fact he’s so fussy, that he wants the pattern to be symmetrical when viewed from any corner or any side, and wants there to be 16 rows of eggs, with five eggs in each row! Can you make such a pattern with the remaining 33 eggs?

Get to it :slight_smile:

16 rows of 5 eggs each is 80 eggs. I fail to see how that could be accomplished with 33 eggs unless you scrambled them and broke them into smaller parts.

I have no idea about the solution to this problem, but I would assume this would be accomplished by making the rows overlap so that each row contains eggs that are also included in other rows.

well, yeh. u got a real stumper here, Fugazi79.

if it can be solved, i’m guessin it would have to be with some kind of circular pattern, ie; using the eggs in more than one row.

I found the answer via Google.

um… little more please

Just out of curiosity, what’s with all the “help with this puzzle” posts from you, and why is it always so critical that they be solved?

The following has 16 rows of 5, but it also has 4 rows of 6 and 12 rows of 2. So I’m not sure if it counts:


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X . X . X . X . X
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X . X . X . X . X
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X . X . X . X . X
. . . X . X . . .
X . X . X . X . X

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There you go

That is one of the lamest “secrets of the pharaohs” I’ve ever seen.

Though I think we need the straight dope on this one…

Hmmm… I probably should have made my eggs round. But if you say ECKS really sharply, it sounds kind of like EGGS, so maybe I was on the right track.

In those solutions, some are rows, some are columns.

Because rows should be horizontal and columns vertical, right? Well, on the screen that’s how it appears, but in the cook’s kitchen, the egg box is presumably laying down so that any consecutive egg line is horizontal. So, they’re all rows.