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Question by Aubrey
Submitted on 3/31/2004
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You have 3 houses and you have electric, gas, and water and they are in line as follows: x house C x house B x house A x electric x gas x water How could you connect electric, gas, and water to every house without crossing lines? You can not do as follows: house a house b house c x................x..............x : : : x x x electric gas water Is it possible??????????????????????????????

Answer by stenydave
Submitted on 4/19/2004
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It wont work.

Answer by Flange
Submitted on 4/20/2004
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do it to the left hand side of the houses

Answer by tree
Submitted on 5/7/2004
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yes in a way. hhtp://www.dse.nl/~puzzle/harder/gas_water_electricity_us.html hope that works

Answer by darrell dodge
Submitted on 11/3/2004
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this is a dumb game!

Answer by Joe
Submitted on 4/19/2005
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You guys think to much...Water and gas are underground...but electricity traveles through wires in the air...Problem Solved

Answer by valhalla
Submitted on 7/23/2005
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i have been pulling my hair out for ears with this puzzle & have not had much luck in solving it. but the only way i can see it done is to get g.w.e to houses 1.2.3 but leave electric out of one house & use solar power instead.

Answer by ladyanne
Submitted on 6/10/2006
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you need 3d space doing this problem in 2d will not work...there will ALWAYS be one house minus one utility!

Answer by Marty
Submitted on 8/23/2006
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Not Possible 2d. Would work drawn 3d

Answer by XxfubsyxX
Submitted on 10/24/2006
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Ok look up a word called Mobius and try to figure it out. I did and i got $300 from my teacher =]

Answer by b.pre
Submitted on 11/4/2006
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its not possible unless done 3D

Answer by Noble
Submitted on 11/21/2006
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no way its impossible, my teacher asked me to do it , then he told me its impossible, the $�%$&^�!!!

Answer by JonK
Submitted on 2/2/2007
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It is only possible on a 3-D scale

Answer by rufus
Submitted on 2/24/2007
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it is not possible unless you put the picture in three dimensions

Answer by me
Submitted on 2/28/2007
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it will work only if the owner of house a will allow the gas company to run a pipe through it other than that it is impossible

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Answer by Benji
Submitted on 5/10/2007
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there is NO solution on a plane without passing one of the lines through one of the houses. otherwise, you'd have to use a sphere or torus to complete the puzzle.

Answer by clever
Submitted on 6/8/2007
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i did it easy