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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.

  Submitted by Lisa    
Rating: 3.0000 (8 votes)
Solution: (Hide)
Move the 2nd horizontal stick on the top line and the 2nd horizontal stick on the bottom line to look like the diagram below:
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  Subject Author Date
SolutionPuzzle SolutionK Sengupta2022-07-13 22:22:47
No SubjectRachael2006-05-18 10:10:28
re: i think this is itkevin2005-10-20 09:02:37
i think this is itkevin2005-10-20 09:01:39
Hints/TipsHow to solve itAlbert2005-09-27 01:03:03
re(4): trying... - got it!Dallin2005-09-19 04:44:06
re(3): trying... - got it!pcbouhid2005-09-11 22:53:04
re(2): trying... - got it!brianjn2005-09-11 05:22:29
re: trying... - got it!pcbouhid2005-09-09 14:43:24
trying...pcbouhid2005-09-09 14:41:54
re(5): Diagram Solution of PCB's solutionpcbouhid2005-09-09 14:07:51
re(4): Diagram Solution of PCB's solutionbrianjn2005-09-09 08:19:47
re(3): Diagram Solution of PCB's solutionpcbouhid2005-09-08 15:47:06
re(2): Diagram Solution of PCB's solutionbrianjn2005-09-08 07:29:02
re(2): Diagram Solutionbrianjn2005-09-08 07:10:49
re(3): Diagram Solution - tk you, Tristanpcbouhid2005-09-08 03:40:20
re(2): Diagram SolutionTristan2005-09-07 23:57:55
re: Diagram Solutionpcbouhid2005-09-07 12:43:25
SolutionDiagram Solutionbrianjn2005-09-07 02:27:37
Solutionmy solutionpcbouhid2005-09-06 23:20:43
SolutionRating is appropriateLeming2005-09-06 22:59:01
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