Howdy there, friend! Your friendly neighborhood Pinkie Pie here! Welcome to Sugarcube Corner!
...oh HI! Yup, I've got your usual box of pecan muffins here! 12 bits please! Ta!
Oh...um... before you go...you're not busy are you? You aren't? Oh thank Celestia, you would NOT believe the doozy I've gotten myself into today!
Remember your last birthday? I made that cake for you specially? You do? Good, because I got a custom order in from this pony with a tall top hat, and since you helped with my hourglass sticky situation I figured since you're super-duper smart you could help me sort out the logistics? Because you can't spell 'logistics' without 'logic'! Kind of. I mean, you just stick the 'stic' in there - heh, stick the stic. I like stick. It's a funny word. Stick stick stick stick -
Oh yeah. Weeeeeeell...get this. I'm making this cake. It's made up of twenty-seven slices. All in the shape of a cube, because he wants it sliced for twenty-seven guests. That way you combine it to form one BIG cube. Thing is, I've also got three tubs of frosting: red, purple and green. And he says I need to decorate the cake with frosting in a way that, when you stick 'em together, it forms one big cube that's a solid red, or solid purple, or solid green. He said he wasn't fussed about how the cake could be rearranged, just that he can form a solid red, purple or green cube.
Eh? Well, he's really into puzzles. As in REALLY into puzzles. Couldn't resist leaving this one with me. Said he also wants to amuse the party guests with it.
...no, he didn't leave the design plans with me. That's kind of why I need you. Pleeeeeeeeeease? I'll give you half-price discount on your next box of muffins! And I'll let you share any leftover frosting with me!
You'll do it? Thankyouthankyouthankyou! So what should I do first?