It's back together after about 10 hours of being solved. Thanks to a 1:21 video on Youtube.
Turns out Youtube has videos detailing the solution to every puzzle made by this company and then some. Awesome for about a half a minute, until you realize that all the fun has been drained out of a once challenging puzzle. I've solved it and put it back together quite a few times now that I know the trick.
Not as much fun. Impressive and good to fool your friends into thinking you're just that damn smart, but not all fun or challenging.
Here's the philosophical big picture thing my last blog lacked:
Youtube is a very useful tool, as pictured above. But it's taken over. No one has to learn how to do anything on their own anymore. Sometimes it's for the best (as we said in class about ten hours with a Youtube tutorial versus seven weeks in a class that teaches next to nothing), but other times it's just too much. The whole point of this puzzle was to make you figure it out on your own (ignore the fact I got help at least Marc was able to get it by himself that should count for something). It's a brainteaser. It's there to make you think on your own. Youtube destroys that ability. Does anyone else get where I'm coming from or am I just the odd one out here?
Dammit, Youtube.
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