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This is my mechanical implementation of the Mathieu M12 permutation puzzle, published in Scientific American by Igor Kriz and Paul Siegel.
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[trivestar]

just drag the disks back up through the wavy paths... I'd say, as a mortal, that this puzzle can be solved as simple as that... not to mention, I could spend many hours on this thing.

[OskarPuzzle]

@trivestar Dragging is not an option, as you do not have access to the disks (they are non-magnetic). I must confess that I solve this puzzle by taking off the plate and resetting it. But that is similar to how I solve my Rubik's Cube ...

[DaMaartenvdBerg]

Ik snap het niet? Je draait dat ding toch gewoon, en die dingetjes vallen toch weer op hun plek?!

[OskarPuzzle]

@DaMaartenvdBerg There are numbers on the disks, and you have to get them in the right order.

[STSteroids]

Omg, this could waste my time so easily and I'd probably never get bored.

[TheJunkRat]

Wow, I could imagine puzzles like these being in a Myst game.

[HaloStrategist]

I think i'm missing something here. How is this a puzzle? Are there parts off of it for demonstrations or something?

[ADAMSGOLER]

how does this have dislikes!!!!!

[trivestar]

@OskarPuzzle Hah, oh well. These things happen, and this puzzle doesn't look like the kind where a player has free reigns; it would be very long and hard.

[trivestar]

@dennischand1 I think it's supposed to be taken as "I don't understand! How are you supposed to fix it when every time you run it back around, things fall further out of place!"

Still, this shouldn't have been responded with "The disks have to be placed in the right order." We need a real translator here lol.

[dennischand1]

to DaMaartenvdBerg

Your comment was supposed to say "I don't understand? You are running that thing just yet, and that things fall yet again on their place?!"

[MrRuix]

350 is too much for me :P

[OskarPuzzle]

@justindiaz91 It exists. It is a long table. My friend George Miller calculated the table on his laptop.

[justindiaz91]

@OskarPuzzle wtf... now im not an expert and i dont know much about algorithms but when you say gods algorithm do you mean that it exists or are u saying that its imposible