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Remove a Square (Posted on 2005-09-06) Difficulty: 1 of 5
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.

See The Solution Submitted by Lisa    
Rating: 3.0000 (8 votes)

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re(2): Diagram Solution of PCB's solution | Comment 8 of 21 |
(In reply to re: Diagram Solution by pcbouhid)

Note: I did see two solutions ahead of me, but I decided to post mine without looking at yours and Leming's.

Yes, I realise that my drawing is your solution.  I found it messy trying to explain which sticks to shift and to where; "a picture is (often) better than a thousand words".


  Posted by brianjn on 2005-09-08 07:29:02
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