Thursday, July 07, 2016

3376 - Toothpicks


I saw this and thought I've seen this before. Lots of times. Could I remember how to do it? Nope.

Move three toothpicks to change four squares into three. No trickery is involved in the solution. It's really simple.


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Top left, top left side, bottom right, moved to create bottom right square.



2 comments:

Big Sky Heidi said...

That puzzle always defeated me!

Elvis Wearing a Bra on His Head said...

That is a difficult problem.