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c/pics · by Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 197d

Some posted back of Pizza box puzzle. Here my cereal box.

If your bored during the snow storm and need something to do.

And just FYI I miss when they had toys in the box instead of these things.

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51 Comments

kn0wmad1c@programming.dev · 26 pts · 197d (1 reply)

Pro tip: These puzzles are always best solved by working backwards.

dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 196d

i learned that when i was a kid doing these haha

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 23 pts · 197d (17 replies)

IDK if it would matter if you went from a number to another hex with that same number, but here is a path that only touches 50 hexes in order.

Exbando@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 197d (3 replies)

You skipped hexes 6 and 13

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 197d (1 reply)

I blame not being able to see through my finger as I drew the lines. 😔

Magnum@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 196d

I blame you

khanh@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 197d

This path is still correct, just with some detours.

Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 197d (12 replies)

Awesome same route I took.

cdf12345@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 197d

You also skipped hexes 6 and 13

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 197d (10 replies)

Near as I can tell it's the only route that works.

Also, it's super easy if you start at 50 and work down. All the "tricky" forked pathes are set to lead you wrong if you're starting from one. Since there's only one winning route, by starting at 50, you never have issue.

Dupelet@piefed.social · 5 pts · 197d (9 replies)

There's another correct route that doesn't skip any numbers

Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 196d (1 reply)

You mean a correct route? I feel like I'm in bizzaro world. Go straight down from start and you're good to not skip 6.

Dupelet@piefed.social · 3 pts · 196d

There's 2 correct routes that don't skip any numbers. The one you mentioned, and the one shown in the pic (the one shown skips a couple numbers, yes, but it can actually pick up those numbers without any trouble.)

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · -1 pts · 196d (6 replies)

I didn't check the route pictured. I just solved it and then came to the comments.

What I said stands. Start at 50 and work backwards. You pretty much can't screw it up.

Dupelet@piefed.social · 1 pts · 196d (5 replies)

You said the only route. I'm pointing out that there's 2.

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 196d (4 replies)

Technically there's three other combinations besides OP's, if you wanna be a dick about it.

But they're all that same path with just minor changes before hoping back on that same path again.

Dupelet@piefed.social · 1 pts · 196d

There's another correct route that doesn't skip any numbers

Could you point out the part where I was being a dick? Jeez.

commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 197d (10 replies)

:::spoiler solution

:::

any alternative paths?

pennomi@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 197d (5 replies)
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commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 197d (4 replies)

omg.

most people aren't solving this with 3 drinks in em lol

SatyrSack@quokk.au · 11 pts · 197d

That's quite an assumption

dellish@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 197d

Looking at some of the other solutions posted I'm starting to think everyone in this thread is drunk.

Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 196d (1 reply)

I don't know if people are just messing with us or not. I see serious "solutions" that just skip numbers.

That all being said, "good enough" has been my motto in life, so I shouldn't be so quick to judge.

commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 196d

I stg I thought it was perfect when I posted it

FreshLight@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 197d

I went from 50 to 1 and went to the right from 13 to 12

Paulemeister@feddit.org · 8 pts · 197d

You can go straight down from 1 and meet up with your path at 13

egrets@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 197d (1 reply)

::: spoiler Here's mine. :::

somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 196d

You're the only person who solved this correctly.

Bubs@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 196d (1 reply)

I found that there are 5 different solutions with several diverging paths:

::: spoiler spoiler :::

(I might have been a little bored...)

Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 196d

That's neat!

dingus@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 197d (8 replies)

Remember when you got CDs on the inside??? That era of cereal was the shit.

archonet@lemy.lol · 13 pts · 197d (1 reply)

mutha

fucken

CHEX QUEST.

Cereal toys have been in decline ever since.

Zahille7@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 197d

Even fast food kid's meal toys used to be awesome. There were the cool light-up collectible LoTR goblets from BK, and McDonald's had the buildable Bionicle characters.

spacesatan@leminal.space · 4 pts · 197d (1 reply)

Frosted flakes had one with some awful gimmick voice control software for your pc that would let you open a web browser with voice commands in like 2005. Nobody at school believed me because they thought that was crazy cutting edge tech.

Oh, naturally it's on archive.org https://archive.org/details/TalkingTony

dingus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 197d

Man I was hoping to see a video of it lol

llii@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 196d

Yeah, I got Roller Coaster Tycoon this way. That was so awesome.

ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 197d

I remember wacky wall walkers

That smelled like froot loops

When they were made with sugar

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 197d (1 reply)

What would you do with a CD though?

ech@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 196d

https://files.catbox.moe/p4a3ru.gif

DrakeAlbrecht@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 197d

There are two paths. You can use either of two 10 hexes to connect 9 and 11.

robocall@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 197d (1 reply)

This was fun, thanks

Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 197d

You're welcome never done one of these myself. But now yeah fun as hell.

taiyang@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 197d

I used to do a lot of mazes as a kid and one of the tricks is to often start from the terminus and go backwards. There are significantly less branches doing that in this case especially.

dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 196d

just start from the 50 side and count down yall it's super easy, don't start at the 1 like a chump. Around the halfway mark is when it is the most complex with more choices at the 25–28 area

ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 197d

Huh. A pen and paper little puzzle format that I’ve never seen before.

I wonder what this whole category of games is even called. Used to see them in things like kids magazines mostly.

ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 197d

I always knew that buzzyboi was a troll. Them double 28s and 37s were trying to trip us up.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 197d (1 reply)

Yes, it's along the left side.

JackbyDev@programming.dev · 4 pts · 197d

I've solved this before and wondered why it was so easy, the "trick" here is that you have to end with 50, so that's not the right path. The instructions say to use 1 - 50.

reddig33@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 197d

I’m surprised General Mills (and other cereal companies) haven’t put the treasure trove of stuff like this that they already own into a branded app or website. It would make good promotional material. I’m reminded of when you could get free Halloween records on the back of Boo Berry and Count Chocula.