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April 19, 2003
Future Hacker?
While we were at Cracker Barrel yesterday, Bubs was playing with one of those peg puzzles. You know the ones, 14 multi-color pegs, triangular peg board with 15 holes. The object of the game is to sequentially jump the pegs over each other (like checkers) until there's only one peg left.
Of course, he's only 2, so we were making up games to play with the pegs. Once, I took all the pegs out of the board. He started picking the pegs up one at a time & handing them to me to put back in the holes of the board. Halfway through the second row, I noticed that no peg was immediately adjacent to a peg of the same color. And he wasn't picking them up at random, there were several he would pick up, look at the board, then get a different color. By the time we got to the last two rows, he only had two colors left, 3 yellow and 2 orange. So he made one row entirely yellow, and the last entirely orange....he studied it for a minute, said "Done!", and started doing something else.
Is that freaky or what? We may have a future hacker in the family.
White hat, of course.
Posted by Rita at April 19, 2003 07:39 PM