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SirDiscipliner69 -> Another puzzler: Da Vinci’s Other Code (3/17/2007 12:25:58 AM)
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Another puzzler: Da Vinci’s Other Code
As steam rises off the nervous surface of the water in his black marble bathtub, a frail, tired Leonardo Da Vinci considers his fate.
Stymied on how to make a mechanical dragon he has been constructing spout real flames, he turns his attention to an episode that occurred in the market earlier that day.
A small boy placed something in his hands and darted away into the crowd. DaVinci now examined it.
It was a small, long, plain wooden box, containing eight blocks, each intricately engraved with a single letter.
The letters had to be arranged in their box according to the following rules:
1. H was two places to the left of U.
2. T was three places to the left of M.
3. A was two places to the right of U.
4. X was two places to the right of O.
However, the cryptic instructions stated that exactly one relationship was a lie.
Of course, Leonardo soon realized there were many possible solutions.
Then, just as he was recovering the soap from between his toes in the water he saw his arrangement, which made no particular word in the box, with the M four places from H and three to the right of the W.
What was Leonardo's solution?
Ross
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