SuPuzzle

[ThemePark]

This is quite a famous puzzle. Unfortunately it's a mean puzzle, as it is completely unsolvable, UNLESS you place the houses on a torus. But obviously you can't do that in this game, hence it can't be solved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%2C_gas%2C_and_electricity

"...and thus that the three cottage problem has no solution."

[capo89]

Hi all! Don't try to complete this one, actually it can be proved that it can't be done. Unfortunately my English isn't that good at math that I could write why but it can't be done.

[stinky]

Tut tut.
Very tricksy

[KingDragon6]

I'm kinda annoyed the impossible puzzle's up here.. I mean, if I didn't know the math behind it I'd probably have a go at trying to solve it. All that effort's fruitless....

[themadhatter]

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[julaika]

Solution explanation!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%2C_gas%2C_and_electricity

[heward]

The soluce :

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/528/solucebt3.jpg

I have cheat but i win

with right click you can bypass water, gaz or electricity

HeWarD

ps : sorry for my bad english

[andiogenes]

It really is impossible. Is is a classic graph problem. I just don't know why somenone would do an impossible game

[heward]

Yes it's impossible without cheat but only in 2D, in 3D no problem

[zappy4]

Actually, it is quite possible. Someone at my school showed me how to complete it. He even written it on paper and showed it to me first hand. I didn't keep the paper, didn't know there was gonna be an online puzzle for it. I even checked his paper and none of the lines crossed. It was completely solved.

[Belondra]

no way, there is always one left it cant be done.

[andiogenes]

Genius

Actually, it is quite possible. Someone at my school showed me how to complete it. He even written it on paper and showed it to me first hand. I didn't keep the paper, didn't know there was gonna be an online puzzle for it. I even checked his paper and none of the lines crossed. It was completely solved.

Man, if there is a guy in your school who did that, take him to any university to be a mathematician genius, because this problem is truly a classic graph theory problem called planar graphs.
This case, the water-gas-electricity with three houses, is not a planar graph, which means that the solution is impossible in the 2D plane.

[PrincessT]

Grrrrrrrrr

[tarumi]

omg i sooo almost got this but then it crossed a wire.. this is sooo annoying

[nin_man]

Actually, it is quite possible. Someone at my school showed me how to complete it. He even written it on paper and showed it to me first hand. I didn't keep the paper, didn't know there was gonna be an online puzzle for it. I even checked his paper and none of the lines crossed. It was completely solved.

The only way to solve this on paper is to punch a hole through the paper, draw one of your lines up to the hole, and then continue it on the other side of the paper. I would not recommend trying this solution on your monitor, though.