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| Dec 7, 2016 at 22:36 | comment | added | David K | A tower that collapses when you remove the top block is easy to imagine; the fact that a particular tower does so might be less obvious. The difficulty here is trying to imagine what the tower actually looks like; I wasn't able to get a clear enough picture of it to say whether it is counterintuitive that the top block is required. | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 12:47 | comment | added | user191074 | Yeah, or surely build up Scott's tower, and then build it on top of itself again going in the other direction. | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 12:12 | comment | added | Abstraction | Why not just put three blocks one on the other, with middle one shifted to the side? Removing the top block will cause middle one to fall. | |
| Dec 5, 2016 at 16:00 | history | answered | Barry Cipra | CC BY-SA 3.0 |