Since I have both the puzzle in hand and a camera attached to
my computer... here is a picture of the torus puzzle, slightly
missaligned for effect.

to decode

save this note into a file, possibly trim stuff before begin
and after end line.

type 'uudecode the-file'

find ringpuz.tif in your directory after this operation.
view it with your favorite tif viewer.

Get help from another if this doesn't make sense. Enjoy -AAK

----------------ringpuz.tif.uu included -----------(cut here)-----
begin 644 ringpuz.tif
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M  $&  ,    !  (   $1  0    !    " $2  ,    !  $   $5  ,    !
M  ,   $6  0    !    6 $7  0    !  "L. $<  ,    !  $         
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