The D Spot

One fine day, daughter Monica brought home a puzzle–the Meiji BLACK chocolate bar puzzle. It already took her a whole day of fun…in the end frustration, in her friend’s house to solve the puzzle. The tiles should fit together to form a rectangle–the BLACK chocolate bar. All her siblings tried solving the puzzle, moving the plastic tiles from one place to another. Solving the puzzle has become a family affair. It was fun, then challenging–a big challenge, with everyone leaving the dining table where the puzzle has become a permanent fixture, to the point of frustration. I, too, was challenged, in between doing some writing, I would sit down and start solving the puzzle, thinking I was smarter than any of them. But I knew when to stop.

Even Pia, Angelo’s 4-year old daughter, was in the verge or tears, so frustrated was she that she blurted, “No one wants to help me”.

Out of sheer frustration, everyone had his or her day going online, searching for a solution to the puzzle. Apparently, Meiji has released 3 chocolate bar puzzles:

• White Chocolate, the challenge level of which is sweet, the easiest
• Milk Chocolate, the challenge level of which is bitter sweet, the moderate
• BLACK Chocolate, the challenge level of which is non-sugar, the most difficult

Solutions to the first two puzzles were found everywhere. But not a solution to the BLACK chocolate.

Incidentally, almost all of us undeniably has this Japanese brand of chocolates in our favorite list. Anything Meiji would give us a temporary high, maybe a high more long lasting that the other US brands.

But this Meiji product has left us frustrated, giving us a reason to run to the store to get another bar or packet of them chocolates. Alan Jr even had a scheme, a pair of scissors in one hand and a tube of Mighty Bond in another.

Until, at 5 am on Black Saturday, Monica almost woke up the whole house with her shouts of merry laughter and shreiks of glee! She has solved the puzzle. Yes, everyone, she has solved the puzzle. Everyone was happy to know that there indeed was a solution to the puzzle, which will for some time continue to be a permanent fixture in the dining table.

Here is the solution–as raw as can be. There was no time to get a better snapshot, though this picture is as sweet as can be!

BUT TAKE NOTE:  This is only 1 of the ways to solve the puzzle. According to this website, there are 2,339 ways to solve the puzzle. So, I guess I am not depriving anyone the bitter sweet pleasure of solving the puzzle. Me, I will try again and again until I find the second solution, and the next, and the next, and the next.

source of 1st picture is here.

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