Help with a riddle

[Killface!]

My friend told me a riddle today and I just can't figure it out! It goes:

There are 3 houses in a row, and across the street is an electric company (E), a gas company (G) and a water company (W). Each of the 3 houses needs to have 1 of each of E, G, and W. You can do this by drawing a line from the house to the company. The catch? You can NOT cross lines over.

1___2___3

E___G___W

Is there anyway to do this?

[Tiki]

That's easy.

 You can make the lines connect from house to house, therefore making them parallel, (I guess), and not crossing. 

Or...

 You can make all of the lines squiggly...maybe 

[Freakout]

Actually I had seen a flash adaption of this riddle in another forum recently, and as far as I could tell, the only way to solve the riddle was through a glitch. You cannot cross wires, each house needs all three supplies, and you can't run one wire from one house to another. It's supposedly impossible.

[Velocity]

Yes... I've tried this riddle many, MANY times in the past. It's impossible to do it.

[Corax]

If you can't run a wire through the house, it's impossible.

If you can, it's possible.

[Ryan!]

One of my math professors claimed it was possible to do by, and I quote him here, "thinking outside the box." Meaning to draw lines outside of the box perimeter that appears when all six are connected. But he was a bit crazy, so he was probably BSing. If it is impossible, then I'm rather mad when he failed everyone who couldn't do it as a homework assignment.

[Crazy Jamie]

Originally Posted by Ryan!

One of my math professors claimed it was possible to do by, and I quote him here, "thinking outside the box." Meaning to draw lines outside of the box perimeter that appears when all six are connected. But he was a bit crazy, so he was probably BSing. If it is impossible, then I'm rather mad when he failed everyone who couldn't do it as a homework assignment.

He was incorrect. He could draw those lines as wide and as far outside the box as he wanted. It is still impossible without running lines through the houses.

[dimmerwit]

http://www.digyourowngrave.com/supuzzle/

That's the online version. The solution is to  use the right click menu to jump over one of the buttons. 

But there is a solution to the paper one. Connect all the wires you can without crossing (meaning you have one wire left). Punch a hole through the paper and draw the line on the other side, then punch another hole and draw the line back onto the original side and connect it to the house. Problem solved

[Light dude]

Or, you can fold the edge of the paper and draw it on that. That would work for the paper version.

[Killface!]

Thanks guys, I just needed to find out for sure.

Originally Posted by Light dude

Or, you can fold the edge of the paper and draw it on that. That would work for the paper version.

I don't think that would work, unless i'm not seeing how you would do it.

[Icon]

The most I've gotten is water to all 3 gas to all 3 and heating to 2.

sorry, water to 3, electric to 3 and gas to 2

[Light dude]

Originally Posted by B Rabbit09

I don't think that would work, unless i'm not seeing how you would do it.

For the last one, you would draw the line to the edge of the paper, fold the edge, so there is a blank space between the lines, and connect it to the house.

[Crazy Jamie]

Originally Posted by Icon

The most I've gotten is water to all 3 gas to all 3 and heating to 2.

sorry, water to 3, electric to 3 and gas to 2

That's the most that you can ever do. You'll always be missing one connection.

[Mharll]

Draw it in 3D. Or add teleport gates for the wires to use. Or put the houses on top of each other. Or merge the residences or industries into single buildings. Or sit on your hands and laugh at the sky.

[Migraine.]

Originally Posted by Mharll

Draw it in 3D. Or add teleport gates for the wires to use. Or put the houses on top of each other. Or merge the residences or industries into single buildings. Or sit on your hands and laugh at the sky.

10/10! lolz