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Re: Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?

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Sorry but isn't two or three cheating? These are not valid ways to connect Lego are they?

Yeah, that's what I thought too.

http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?q=420_1&v=z

I think this is an example of a very early set using this technique. But yes, this is possible and holds rigidly

Re: Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?

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Does this content really belong to hackernews?

Your comment got treated rather harshly, so let me try to explain. The post is on topic for HN because, although the question is a whimsical one, it gratifies intellectual curiosity (please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ). Whimsical submissions like it have always been welcome here, as long as they're uncorrelated with anything that's appeared recently. (Sometimes people start doing the copycat…

Thanks for contructive answer. Got it. I was just curious. I am lurking here for long time and it seems to me, that the ratio of technical posts is really declining over last few months so I was wondering about the guidelines.
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