Keolo's wooden puzzle which, after a little catfight, is now mine.XD
Apparently the puzzle has been puzzling me for the past five days. I haven't solved it yet because I haven't dismantled it yet. The pieces are all wedged tight into each other like a supertight wedgie.XD I've handed it to eight different people with puzzle-solving capabilities ranging from Master Puzzle Solver to Master Puzzle Dweeb, but none of them were able to pry the pieces apart. Losers!
And with my Google Ninja skills I did find solutions on disassembling it, of course, which should be a piece of cake. You hold two specific pieces tangent to each other and then twist them this way and that and whole thing should collapse BUT IT'S NOT BLOODY WORKING. However I twist and pull and push, what with all the possible combinations of two pieces tangent to each other--despite their specificity--the pieces are jammed into each other's armpits.
All them eight who's gotten a look at it (plus me, which makes it nine) scoffed at it, the silly mathematical plaything, and were deluded into taking it apart without twitching a muscle. We were wrong. This version of Escher's Star is an indestructible, unpryable piece of fossilized pigeonshit. After five days of hurling it and pulling it apart my fingers throbbed red and bled with revenge at its maker. Whoever its maker is must be HEE-HAWing at himself and his cunning craftsmanship to intensify the suffering of all star puzzle-loving intellectual people.
Earlier this evening I shoved it back into Keolo's face and said, "Take it! I can't bloody figure it out!" "No Tita," Keolo said, "if you can't solve it then I can't solve it. You're the smartest person I know so if you can't solve it nobody else can!" Apparently Keolo lives in a fishbowl. "Never!" I said. "Of course you can, Tita," Keolo said. "If you solve it I'll give you P50." Ha! Bribing me eh? He can't bribe me. The puzzle's already mine! I just want him to have it again because I changed my mind. Nevertheless I am a sucker for challenges. I said, "Okay."
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