MJSweetz: What is the answer to the retriever scramble squares puzzle?
I have been trying to get the retriever scramble squares puzzle for a long time. Has anybody EVER completed it? If so do you have a picture of it fully done?
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Answer by VinceHerman
Hi CD,
Scramble Squares are deceptively difficult. Maybe that is because there are 95,126,814,720 possible combinations (almost 100 billion).
I wrote a program to solve the puzzles. (geeky, I know) 🙂
Another Asker had sent me a picture of their pieces.
https://www.vinceherman.net/puzzle/puzzle%20014.jpg
I ran it through my program to get the solution, and then rearranged the pieces to show what the solution would look like.
https://www.vinceherman.net/puzzle/puzzle%20014%20solution.jpg
But I also found solution sites online.
It has an interface that lets you describe the faces of the 9 squares, and solves the puzzle in a few seconds.
If you cannot make that work, feel free to email me with a picture of your puzzle (or a link online if you can find it) and I will solve it and show you the solution.
Good luck and have fun!
edit: I found a picture on a site that was selling the puzzle:
Give me a bit and I will post up a picture of the solution.
Edit #2: I ran the picture I found online. It said that there was not solution. Then I realized that one of the pieces is a duplicate. If you can take a picture of your squares (do not have to be in a solution) I can compare it to the picture I found and see if the tricked us with a broken puzzle. Either post a link to the picture as additional information, or email it to me.
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