Comments on: Tetrasection Quest

By: michaelc

michaelc — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:21:17 +0000

Nevermind. Hopefully you can picture from the description.

By: michaelc

michaelc — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:20:24 +0000

Try that again.

Like this…?

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By: michaelc

michaelc — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:19:37 +0000

Well the blue was the only one I could get, and I got a different answer. Strangely enough, they seem pretty easy once the you see the solution.

My solution for the blue was like a knight moves in chess. 2 squares up, and one diagonally. Each piece looking like this below….

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By: suineg

suineg — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:45:24 +0000

jajaja RK, I think I understood the puzzle badly I thought you only can use the lines already there, thats why I could not do the orange, because you have to “cut” the figure in order to divide that jajaja I was begginig to think I was so dumb jajajaj cool there is an alternative answer for the blue:
-1-
-21
231
234
443
the – is for indication of blank space, the numbers are each figure, this solution has no need of making aditional lines just cutting by the grid provided, jajaja sometimes I am so silly, thats why the orange seems impossible jajaja but cool, I will try them with that information, did not memorized them I swear jajaja

By: RK

RK — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:46:21 +0000

I think Daniel.Leonard got these right…here’s the official graphic solution by Peter Grabarchuk:

http://www.smart-kit.com/wp-co.....lution.jpg

By: RK

RK — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:46:34 +0000

Hi there Suineg- will upload the answers Friday am (US time). Agree, these puzzles are tough. You have the right mindset, though- wanting to expose yourself to a variety of challenges is the best way to keep your brain fit and sharp

By: suineg

suineg — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:57:16 +0000

hello RK, fine with the blue, stuck in the orange, dont know why but I find really hard this type of puzzles, but cool, just practice, its really challeging.

By: Tetrasection | Time Waster

Tetrasection | Time Waster — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:15:35 +0000

[...] Smartkit Puzzles and Brain Teasers propone una sfida che ha a che fare con la geometria: si tratta di dividere le forme mostrate nell’immagine in 4 parti congruenti. In pratica dovrete cercare di capire in che modo ritagliare le forme geometriche ma la sfida non è agevole e vi può tenere impegnati a lungo. Per facilitare il compito di chi deciderà di provarci, è possibile stampare qui il foglio con le figure geometriche e poi tentare. [...]

By: daniel.leonard

daniel.leonard — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:54:06 +0000

The spaces I put at the beginning of indented lines didn’t show up in my comment as posted, so you’ll have to imagine that some of the lines are shifted to the right as per the puzzle. My solution turned out to be another puzzle…

By: daniel.leonard

daniel.leonard — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:33:40 +0000

I’ll do my best to describe solutions in text. a \ indicates that a block is cut in half.

Blue:

1
1/
2/3
2/3
/44

Each piece looks like this:

1
1/
/ it includes the adjacent halves of squares.

Green:

11122
11122
312224
333444
333444

The piece shape is more obvious in this diagram.

Orange (looks more yellow to me):

\11/
3\/2
3/\2
/44

The shape of each piece is as follows:

\11
\/

i.e., two adjacent blocks with a half-block attached at the left and two half-blocks attached on the bottom.

Red:

1
1
214444
211134
222234
3333

Again, I think the shape is more obvious from the diagram (since there aren’t any triangles/half-squares involved). I didn’t think Red was particularly difficult, but I guess it depends how you approach it and what you try first.