Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!udel!brahms.udel.edu!conrad From: conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: 3 in three clue? (CLUE, SEMI-SPOILER) Message-ID: <18714@brahms.udel.edu> Date: 13 Feb 91 16:03:12 GMT References: <11032@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Feb13.015916.21973@parc.xerox.com> Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 17 Bob, I'm in awe of your effort, but it's not that hard (I actually found this the easiest of the "open/close the gates" puzzles). As you say, you must click on each of the 12 inner doors exactly once; some you must click when open, some when closed. Each affects one and only one outer door. Click 4 times on each inner door (once to see what it reverses when open, once for same when closed, twice to restore), and write down the OUTER door it effects (any numbering ID scheme that works for you), and whether you must be opening or closing to do it. This will give you a list of the 12 inner doors, in two columns for OPEN and CLOSE. Once you have this list, ANY order of these 12 clicks will work, as long as it's possible to do all 12 (i.e., you can't leave yourself with all closed doors when you need a particular open one). And you must finish with a closing motion, of course. Once I wrote down my list, I zipped through it in one go. Just alternate fairly regularly between the two columns (there will be 5 in one, 7 in the other). Jon Alan Conrad