Calhoon's Gordian Challenge

Commodore 64 · 1995 · WOR

Loadstar Knees Calhoon

Publisher: Loadstar · Developer: Knees Calhoon

This is a tricky puzzle that challenges you to find a solution so difficult that you might never want to take on a challenge again. It's based on the legendary Gordian Knot, a tangle of ropes so complex that no one could untie it until Alexander the Great simply cut it with his sword. Your task is to replace the question marks in the following sentence: "In this sentence, the number of occurrences of 9 ?, of 1 ?, of 2 ?, of 3 ?, of 4 ?, of 5 ?, of 6 ?, of 7 ?, of 8 ?, and of 9 ?." You can use whole numbers from 1 to 99 to make the sentence true. Other parts of the challenge are based on similar concepts involving self-reference and pangrams, where you must adjust numbers and words so that the sentence is correct by itself.

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Calhoon's Gordian Challenge — box-2D (CUS)

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Calhoon's Gordian Challenge — box-texture (CUS)

Calhoon's Gordian Challenge — box-3D (CUS)

Calhoon's Gordian Challenge — mixrbv2 (CUS)

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