"Pantazis' Color Magic Box"
Puzzle
After making the transparent version of the magic box, here is the color one!
I hope you like it! :-)
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It is a Magic Myth, so it must have some history behind it. So here it is! :-P
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After the enigma of the Sphynx was solved, the Gods were furious as their best puzzle was revealed to mortals. Thousands years later, and after thinking carefully of how to punish the ever curious humans, they sent to them a small magic puzzle, which was made of seven tiles that symbolised that the magic box was more powerful than all the seven wonders of the ancient world put together. This magic puzzle could reach the form of an opened box, and on the bottom of the box, there would be three tiles, one on top of the other. Each tile has a symbol of a season on each corner: Leaf = Autumn, There are two unique solutions, where all the season-symbols match and can be seen clearly through all three bottom tiles, such that the Autumn season is on the top left. One solution has all four seasons in the accepted anticlockwise order (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) and anyone who reaches it, will become very powerful. Beware though, for if you reach the other solution, destruction will come upon the entire world. By matching the season-symbols in the wrong order, all seasons of this world will also change dramatically, causing irreversible changes to the climate and eventually total chaos. It is said, that a similar (but less powerful) box was responsible for destroying the lost continent of Atlantis. Do you dare to try this puzzle? Would you take the risk of becoming powerful by knowing that if you fail, you would be the one responsible for the world's end? |
Below is shown how to reach the final steps of the first solution of the
puzzle:
(click on the thumbnails to enlarge)
You may also view a VIDEO,
regarding the above move, by clicking HERE!
(Quicktime movie, 15 Megabytes)
Below is shown how to reach the final steps of the second solution of the
puzzle:
(note that, to avoid the world destruction, modifed images were used...! :-P
)
(click on the thumbnails to enlarge)
Below is a WRONG solution (it neither makes you powerful, nor destroys
the world).
(it can be seen that the images don't match at all thoughout the three bottom
tiles)
You may also view the various scrambled states of the puzzle:
(click on the thumbnails to enlarge)
Many thanks to Abdul Ghafoor (my collegue at the university),
for suggesting me to use three layers instead of two! :-)
FInally, here are some extra tools used to build the above puzzle.
To build this puzzle you will need some strings, plastic tiles, and some nice
paper tiles.
For information of how to connect/number the tiles and the strings, visit
two brilliant articles here
and here,
(courtesy of Twisty Puzzles
articles).
Please let me know of any comments or suggestions. Thanks! :-)