OK, I just had to post this.
I have been messing around with this key chain puzzle off and on for like a year and a half.... Just this morning I finally solved it. YES!!! I bought this Puzzle in a little shop just off the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel. There were lots of cool hand made puzzle boxes and wooden toys. Which is why I stopped in, in the first place. I wanted to pick up a couple of toys for my kids before heading home. The owner of the little shop was messing with one similar. She sighed and then tossed it to the counter to declare she had had enough. I had then asked her if the puzzle was a particularly difficult one? She looked at me cross-eyed and said if I could solve it I could have anything I wanted in the store. I took the challenge. I stood there leaning against the counter for what seemed an hour. People coming in, people leaving, things going on in my peripheral vision....needless to say I didn't get it solved and to top it off I bought one :)
I see now the great marketing idea it was. How many, like myself walk into that store and leave with one of those key chains. Genius. But now it is solved as you can see. And what I thought would have been a great sense of accomplishment is .... I'm not gonna say empty because that's not what it is. I think I'll just go with - Whats next?....
