>>2395328Can't tell if trolling, but nice trips. By saying "run in parallel", you're essentially letting your lines either enter the third dimension or overlap when eventually going to their destination, which is not allowed in the original problem. We're talking about paths, not "lines" in the geometric sense you learned in high school, and the contact between these paths is what's forbidden.
It's a brainteaser, not a practical problem. It's frequently posted here because it's easy to understand, impossible to solve in the strictest interpretation of the problem, and allows creative and humorous "solutions" outside the bounds of the original problem.
