Eternity 2
September 1, 2007 | By soruman | Topics: flash games, Puzzle Games, Real Games, Web Games
The puzzle Eternity was designed by Christopher Monckton in 1999 and got its popularity after the first person that solved it won £1.000.000.
“The puzzle consisted of filling a large almost regular dodecagon with 209 smaller irregularly shaped smaller polygons. It was launched in June 1999, by Ertl Toys, marketed to amateur puzzle solvers and 500,000 copies were sold worldwide.
The puzzle was solved on May 15, 2000, before the first deadline by two Cambridge mathematicians, Alex Selby and Oliver Riordan.
The Eternity II puzzle was released on 28 July 2007 to a world-wide audience with a big According to Eternity II’s rules, possible solutions to the puzzle will be received by mail up until December 31, 2008. If no correct solutions are opened, the mail for the next year would be kept until December 31, 2009, and lastly 2010. The first correct solution will win the prize of US$2,000,000.”
The Eternity II puzzle is an edge-matching puzzle which involves placing 256 square puzzle pieces into a 16 by 16 grid, constrained by the requirement to match adjacent edges.
If you find it intersting you can try a 16 piece mini version of the puzzle online. Click here to play it.
Additional Links
Eternity 2 Web Site
Eternity Puzzle Description at Wikipedia
Eternity Puzzle 2 Description at Wikipedia
Interview with the mathematicians that won the first prize
September 1, 2007 | By soruman | Topics: flash games, Puzzle Games, Real Games, Web Games |
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Once you get bored with trying to solve the US2,000,000 puzzle eternityii by hand, you can go to http://eternity2.net to download free software to let your computer solve it for you! (about 10,000,000 times faster than by hand)
Cheers
Dave Clark
nice little game.
Is it just me or did anyone else manage to complete the Clue 1 puzzle without too much effort?
Same here. It took me 20` to solve it.
You can visit eternity-puzzle.com for more information about this puzzle.
my brain may explode it hurts so much after playin just 1 minute of this game.. How do you do it.. Oh yea, is there any walkthrough for the escape games. I can never beat them. I am a crappy game player!!!!!
what is the solution does it mean you need to solve in as less goes as possible
once you complete it i have by the way but dont get what you need to do to submit your solution if your soluition is that you just did it without help
i dont understand