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If your bored during the snow storm and need something to do.

And just FYI I miss when they had toys in the box instead of these things.

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[–] Bubs@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I found that there are 5 different solutions with several diverging paths:

spoiler

(I might have been a little bored...)

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's neat!

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pro tip: These puzzles are always best solved by working backwards.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

i learned that when i was a kid doing these haha

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

IDK if it would matter if you went from a number to another hex with that same number, but here is a path that only touches 50 hexes in order.

[–] Exbando@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You skipped hexes 6 and 13

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I blame not being able to see through my finger as I drew the lines. 😔

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 5 points 3 days ago

I blame you

[–] khanh@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

This path is still correct, just with some detours.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Awesome same route I took.

[–] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago

You also skipped hexes 6 and 13

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Near as I can tell it's the only route that works.

Also, it's super easy if you start at 50 and work down. All the "tricky" forked pathes are set to lead you wrong if you're starting from one. Since there's only one winning route, by starting at 50, you never have issue.

[–] Dupelet@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

There's another correct route that doesn't skip any numbers

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You mean a correct route? I feel like I'm in bizzaro world. Go straight down from start and you're good to not skip 6.

[–] Dupelet@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

There's 2 correct routes that don't skip any numbers. The one you mentioned, and the one shown in the pic (the one shown skips a couple numbers, yes, but it can actually pick up those numbers without any trouble.)

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[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

solution

any alternative paths?

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean, you skipped 5 and 6 but yeah that’s the easiest way to solve it.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

omg.

most people aren't solving this with 3 drinks in em lol

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 11 points 4 days ago

That's quite an assumption

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Looking at some of the other solutions posted I'm starting to think everyone in this thread is drunk.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't know if people are just messing with us or not. I see serious "solutions" that just skip numbers.

That all being said, "good enough" has been my motto in life, so I shouldn't be so quick to judge.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

I stg I thought it was perfect when I posted it

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago

I went from 50 to 1 and went to the right from 13 to 12

[–] Paulemeister@feddit.org 8 points 4 days ago

You can go straight down from 1 and meet up with your path at 13

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're the only person who solved this correctly.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Remember when you got CDs on the inside??? That era of cereal was the shit.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

mutha

fucken

CHEX QUEST.

Cereal toys have been in decline ever since.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Even fast food kid's meal toys used to be awesome. There were the cool light-up collectible LoTR goblets from BK, and McDonald's had the buildable Bionicle characters.

[–] spacesatan@leminal.space 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Frosted flakes had one with some awful gimmick voice control software for your pc that would let you open a web browser with voice commands in like 2005. Nobody at school believed me because they thought that was crazy cutting edge tech.

Oh, naturally it's on archive.org https://archive.org/details/TalkingTony

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Man I was hoping to see a video of it lol

[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I got Roller Coaster Tycoon this way. That was so awesome.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I remember wacky wall walkers

That smelled like froot loops

When they were made with sugar

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

just start from the 50 side and count down yall it's super easy, don't start at the 1 like a chump. Around the halfway mark is when it is the most complex with more choices at the 25–28 area

[–] DrakeAlbrecht@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

There are two paths. You can use either of two 10 hexes to connect 9 and 11.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

You're welcome never done one of these myself. But now yeah fun as hell.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I used to do a lot of mazes as a kid and one of the tricks is to often start from the terminus and go backwards. There are significantly less branches doing that in this case especially.

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago

Huh. A pen and paper little puzzle format that I’ve never seen before.

I wonder what this whole category of games is even called. Used to see them in things like kids magazines mostly.

I always knew that buzzyboi was a troll. Them double 28s and 37s were trying to trip us up.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I’m surprised General Mills (and other cereal companies) haven’t put the treasure trove of stuff like this that they already own into a branded app or website. It would make good promotional material. I’m reminded of when you could get free Halloween records on the back of Boo Berry and Count Chocula.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, it's along the left side.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

I've solved this before and wondered why it was so easy, the "trick" here is that you have to end with 50, so that's not the right path. The instructions say to use 1 - 50.

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