# Looking for puzzle solution! Pyramid puzzle 1994 Games Magazine

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**Created:** [December 17, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-puzzle-solution-pyramid-puzzle-1994-games-magazine/564538 "2010-12-17T18:27:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![mrbluefox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@mrbluefox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrbluefox)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-puzzle-solution-pyramid-puzzle-1994-games-magazine/564538/1 "2010-12-17T18:27:34Z")

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Back in 1994, during the first incarnation of Games Magazine, there was a December 1994 Pyramid puzzle where you had 10 dominoes with Egyptian symbols, and you were to put them into a pyramid without repeating the same symbol more than twice in a row. Anyone have old Games Magazines that might show the solution, or know the puzzle I’m referring to and a tip to solve it? I would guess the solution was probably published in the Jan or Feb 1995 issue of the magazine.

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**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-puzzle-solution-pyramid-puzzle-1994-games-magazine/564538/2 "2010-12-17T19:27:27Z")

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Never heard of it, but is it a manifestation of the [four-color theorum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem)?

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**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-puzzle-solution-pyramid-puzzle-1994-games-magazine/564538/3 "2010-12-17T19:38:08Z")

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IIRC, the solutions were always published in the same issue.

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**Author:** ![mrbluefox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@mrbluefox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrbluefox)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-puzzle-solution-pyramid-puzzle-1994-games-magazine/564538/4 "2010-12-17T20:17:09Z")

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Sorry, it was no more than once in a row, not twice. Also, it was a “contest”, so I don’t think the solution would have been in the same issue.