> > I sit corrected. 1,307,674,368,000 permutations. On average, a player will happen upon the solution on the 653,837,184,000th attempt, which, assuming one permutation per minute, means that particular puzzle should only take 1243982.5 (or so) years (on average) to solve.
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> Hrm, I think that's roughly the same amount of time it took the average player that didn't cheat to beat Riven. I'm joking of course. Nobody beat Riven without cheating.

While we're on the subject... has anyone ever actually beaten "Gauntlet" without cheating? Or Doom II on "Nightmare" level? Just curious. :-}

Dar "Heh heh... yeah, cheating is cool... heh heh..." ien