Comments on: Matches & Squares Brain Teaser

By: Abhijit

Abhijit — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:13:58 +0000

Remove twoadjacent match sticks from anyone corner . Then remove four sticks from inside of the the larger part of the rremaining figure .Two square – one larger and one small remains.

I cannot show it figuratively . Sorry for this .

By: Milo Zachary

Milo Zachary — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:19:09 +0000

By: RLP

RLP — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:47:44 +0000

good lateral thinking, Jason- just saw your answer.

By: RLP

RLP — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:26:02 +0000

Irene- you didn't pass Joe the answer now, did you?

By: SA

SA — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:15:41 +0000

Remove the four matches creating a ‘cross’ inside the first four (two on top and two on bottom) squares, thus creating one large square…

….and then remove the two matches from the top right corner leaving the same small square at the bottom (attached to the larger square and which is the third square in the current second row)…

That is removing six and leaving two squares, albeit of different sizes.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:51:07 +0000

Take out 4 in the middle in the shape of a +, lets say on the right. then take out 2 in either corner on the left and you are left with 2 squares.

By: John Lewis Highsmith

John Lewis Highsmith — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:40:49 +0000

Remove either set of 4 touching internal sticks. This gives 1 large square and 2 small squares. Remove the 2 corner sticks from one of the small squares. Voila!

By: jason

jason — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:00:45 +0000

one way would be to leave a 3 and a 6, for 36, the square of 6, and also if you add them together, you would have 9, or the square of 3. Thats what i have so far….i’ll keep thinking though

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:43:28 +0000

Okay, so the diagramme didn’t come out right…basically it’s one big square on the left, and a little square on its right.

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:42:30 +0000

At the bottom right square: take away the right and the bottom matches.
(This leaves the small square at the top)

Adjacent to the small square will be a large 2X2 grid. Remove the 4 matches that are inside the grid.

Ta-da….

You should be left with something like this:

_ _ _
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|_ _|

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:30:14 +0000

Take away four matches in the center (in a cross formation), then take two away from one of the remaining corners. You’re left with one big square and one small one.

By: Irene

Irene — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:21:14 +0000

http://img.photobucket.com/alb.....EDITED.jpg

By: charity

charity — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:17:03 +0000

k its kinda hard to explain but on the four squares on the left you take away the four that meet in the middle…then on the right you take away the bottom one and the bottom right one leaving a lil square in the upper right corner then the four lil ones on the left form one big square….hope that was explained clearly enough

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:10:23 +0000

http://i3.photobucket.com/albu.....teaser.jpg