Five squares are made up from the 16 sticks below:

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Move just two of the sticks without disturbing or overlapping the other 14 sticks to make only 4 identical squares, still using all 16 sticks.

I played with too many matches as a kid.

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Four nonconnected squares.

Posted by Leming on 2005-09-06 22:59:01