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.

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Edited on September 7, 2005, 2:29 am

Posted by brianjn on 2005-09-07 02:27:37