Leadership seminars can also be interesting

2008 Sep 30
some times seminars can also be interesting at least for me most of the times i find them boring and a waste of my time. A recent seminar i joined made me think twice with some of the seminars i missed before. the last task we had from the seminar which i enjoyed the most is the testing the leadership skill you have learned from the seminar. The task is to solve the puzzle called traffic jam.

Setup
2 groups of five with each team having their own uniform color. All 10 individuals setting in front of each other, each team facing the other team. an extra chair placed at the center of the last two persons. See illustrations below, ill name the first team as alphabet and the other as numbers. everybody is facing the empty chair.

  1 2 3 4 5
@
  A B C D E

Objective
The objective of the game is to switch places with the team by following some rules. The ending arrangement should be.

  E D C B A
@
  5 4 3 2 1
Instructions
  • a person can move in a space (blank chair) beside him
  • a person can skip a person or move around a person
  • a person can only move forward
  • only one person can move at a time

Well after an hour, i was able to crack this game. it was very frustrating not to be able to get the solution in time because the speaker place a timer on the board and it was just 45 minutes. anyway here's my solution:

The Solution to the Traffic Jam game
Team Alphabet moves first, Person A move to the blank chair.

A12ABC1234ABCDE12345ABCDE2345CDE45E


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huff.. I don't know.. I feel there is something wrong in the logic... I didn't get the answer.. Angeline @ marcus evans scam

I doubt whether your solution is right. Anyway, a good problem for mind to think about.

Anderson @ ipod parts

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