Life - Viewing a topic
<<  <  1  >  >>

A rumor?

good(0) bad(0) view(254) comments(0)
Wen Send a message to Wen Send an email to Wen
poster face
Level: ◆◆◆◆◇◇


On the Rubik's Cube page in Chinese Wikipedia, there is such a sentence:

魔術方塊與中國的華容道、法國的單身貴族(獨立鑽石棋)同被稱謂智力遊戲界的三大不可思議。

It says that Rubik's Cube, Klotski from China, and Peg solitaire from France are called "The Three Inconceivable Puzzles." However, I cannot find any English record about this. There's no such record in English Wikipedia. Although this record also appears on the page of "Puzzle" and the page of "Peg solitaire" in Chinese Wikipedia, it doesn't exist on these pages in English Wikipedia. I googled "three inconceivable puzzles", "three incredible puzzles", and other similar keywords, and I got nothing related to this record. I also googled "Rubik's Cube Klotski Peg solitaire", but still I didn't get this record. Therefore, this is probably just a rumor spreading over China.

I googled the Chinese keyword "智力遊戲界的三大不可思議" and got a lot of results, one of which was "(華容道)與魔方、獨立鑽石棋一起被國外智力專家並稱為'智力遊戲界的三個不可思議'." If translated into English, it says that Klotski, Rubic's Cube, and Peg solitaire are called by foreign intelligence experts "The Three Inconceivable Puzzles." If this concept is raised by foreign experts, how come there is no English record about it? ("foreign" here means outside of China)

Prof. McWilliams is right. Never trust Wikipedia.

Share/Save/Bookmark

Posted at 2007-05-29 02:52:16
Life - Viewing a topic
<<  <  1  >  >>
Add a comment
Comment will be posted by Guest
Your name/nickname:
For security purpose, please correctly answer this math question:

Note: Do not exceed 65535 bytes, HTML is not supported, but you can use NN Code

| | | Register | Forget password
Browse topics by category: Footprints | Recipes | Fun | Tech | Science | Entertainment | Life | WENSH Affairs | Guests' Msgs |
中文分类: 足迹 | 美食 | 开心 | 奇技淫巧 | 科学 | 音视 | 琐事 | WENSH事务 | 过客留言 | 前梦想国度 |
| Links | Services | Leave a message | About NetNest |
Valid XHTML 1.0 | Valid CSS2 | WAI-A WCAG 1.0
LinkReferral
W3Csites.com Listed | Travel blogs | Travel | Top Blogs | blogarama.com
Directory of Travel Blogs | Travel Blogs - Blog Top Sites | Web Hosting Directory by Blog Flux | | Blog Ratings
Copyright 2005-2008 WEN'S Horizon [32/1.434]
Powered by NetNest 2.1.0.081019 © 2004-2008 NetNest Group