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.

The required arrangement can be achieved in the following manner:

Posted by K Sengupta on 2022-07-13 22:22:47