[Puzzle 003]

[hisapprentice]

Does anyone want to help celebrate the new year with a puzzle? I made it up myself!

Which of these shapes can't be drawn without picking your pen up from the page or retracing any lines?



It's okay if you cross over a line you already made, but if you've got it all right you shouldn't need to.

Don't tell anyone else your answer! I'm not going to give it away to everyone either.

[meanwhile he still needs things like a real place to live and such. Does that matter in the face of puzzles? ...Well, yes, actually. Luke's a fan, but not a maniac. He just doesn't know anyone well enough to think of living with them, or asking. Or...anything.

He will be at Seventh Heaven, chowing down for dinner. Boy can eat half a menu when he's hungry.]

Comments

[ voice ]

[makeitquick]

Food?

[Okay that. Gives her pause in the tracing. How do you make a puzzle about food?]

[ voice ]

[hisapprentice]

I know a great one about putting all the toppings on a burger!

[ voice ]

[makeitquick]

Burger bomb? [Might as well confirm that first]

[ voice ]

[hisapprentice]

Uh...is that your word for a hamburger?

[ voice ]

[makeitquick]

...Nah, 'ticular type. Wondered if you meant it.

[ voice ]

[hisapprentice]

It could be any sort of hamburger you wanted.

[ voice ]

[makeitquick]

[STILL TRACING AND NOT GETTING IT SO-]

Hit me.

[ voice ]

[hisapprentice]

Great! See if you can make the proper hamburger by following these instructions. It has five layers between the buns - meat, tomato, lettuce, cheese, and mayonnaise:

- The meat goes above the mayonnaise.
- The only ingredient between the meat and the tomato is the lettuce.
- The cheese touches the bun.
- Neither the meat nor the lettuce is in the exact middle.

What's the right order of the layers of this hamburger?

[ voice ]

[makeitquick]

[... :|a Okay-]

Bun
Lettuce
Tomato
Meat
Mayo
Cheese
Bun

[ ....Wait. This might be wrong- yes, it messes up the "in the middle thing. She frowns]

[ voice ]

[hisapprentice]

You have your meat in the middle, and I think you should read the part about the tomato again.

[ voice / written ] Oh wait I should have noted the above and this is written

[makeitquick]

[ ...HMMM.

Okay so-]

Bun
Lettuce
Tomato
Meat
Mayo
Cheese
Bun

. . .

Bun
Cheese
Tomato
Lettuce
Meat
Mayo
Bun

[...Wait that isn't right either, is it? /checks the rules again]

[ voice / written ]

[hisapprentice]

Sorry! You were closer with your first guess.

[ voice / written ]

[makeitquick]

[Tap... tap...]

It gotta all be inside the buns?

[ voice / written ]

[hisapprentice]

Mmhmm. I think it would be hard to eat any other way.

Would you like a hint?

[ voice / written ]

[makeitquick]

Sure, shoot.