Quickly you survey the situation. To the untrained eye it might look like Indy is pinned under a pile of logs and rocks. Not so. You see that the rubble forms a tangled yet balanced web.
“I’ve got the answer—physics and geometry!” you announce.
“Kid, this is no time for an IQ test. Just get me out of here.”
That’s exactly your plan. And it’s simple. All you have to do is take out the right log, and half of the pile will fall on one side of Indy, and the other half will fall on the other side of him. Because he’s at the vertex of what looks to you like an upside-down isosceles triangle, nothing will fall straight down on Indy.
That’s the simple part. The hard part is knowing which is the right log to yank.
“Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,” you begin to say. Sometimes a grasp of physics and geometry just isn’t enough.










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