How to Solve the Triangle Golf Tee Puzzle (The Kind in Cracker Barrel)

I am here because I am an egnoramus! Not anymore. I will now place wagers with the people dining with me at Cracker Barrel

Hey Mr. Buffington! I go to k12 and I was looking at the video ' The role of a teacher' and you were in it, and you know kids are always online and besides doing my work I am on youTube. Any who I noticed that you had said you "make videos to show kids how to use math in real life" and I saw how you had the video in the class connect.. And to put a video on a CC you have to get it from youTube! (Because I am in cc's all the time.) And BOOM here I am! I just wanted to say I respect that you ..

.. I respect that you make videos for your students to help them learn better!

I'm old. I first played this in Howard Johnson's. When I was 7 or 8 I could solve it, and thought it simple. Now that I'm in my mid-forties, I watched this with amazment that anyone could ever figure it out. I hope I don't find my old Rubik's cube, my head may explode.

Thank you for putting this up. I have solved it a few times,but I never knew how I did it.

Thanks for sharing your good at puzzles like my cool gym teacher mr lowery at SEC school

Brilliant!

Actually you can have your starting point ( the empty hole) anywhere on the board, so there is several different solutions

Thank you

There’s an iOS app that solves the Cracker Barrel puzzle. Search for “Triangle Puzzle Solver” in the App Store. 🙂

Thanks dude

Where to buy it from?

Do you know the solution for a 7 x 7 version of this puzzle?

We just used this to solve the puzzle while we're at Cracker Barrel. Thanks for posting this!

Works!