Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utah-gr.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) Newsgroups: net.puzzle Subject: Re: How to win a bottle of Champagne Message-ID: <1467@utah-gr.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Jun-85 01:32:56 EDT Article-I.D.: utah-gr.1467 Posted: Sat Jun 1 01:32:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Jun-85 20:28:06 EDT References: <179@ubvax.UUCP> <262@zaphod.UUCP> Reply-To: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept Lines: 21 Keywords: frustration and anger Summary: Arrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh!!!!!! I sure am glad I took a minute to work this problem before reading the next article (the one this message is a followup to). Otherwise I wouldn't have had the pleasure of discovering the answer for myself. *PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE*, if you must show off your puzzle-solving ability by posting the answer to the net, at least encrypt the solution (and add a "(SPOILER)" to the header, for extra warning.) Judging from the number of wrong answers I have seen posted to this newsgroup (and others), you may be better off NOT posting the answer at all. Don't let us know what a jerk you are that you have to be the first one on the net with "the answer". Show some consideration. -- =Spencer ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA) "A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do never does all he can." -- John Stuart Mill