Showing posts with label Match Stick Puzzles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Match Stick Puzzles. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Arrange the equilateral triangles

Move three matches to make four equilateral triangles..remember no overlapping....




Watch this space for answer in a week.

Monday, October 6, 2014

Fish East to North # Stick Puzzle


If the fish show above is facing East direction, move 2 sticks so that fish face South. Do not move eye.

Add 3 sticks to get 4 triangles


Add three sticks so that 4 triangles of equal shape are formed. Sticks need not be parallel to surface.

PYRAMID(3 Dimensional)

Sunday, October 5, 2014

6 Triangles and Hexagon - Stick Puzzle


Add 3 more sticks so that 6 trianges and one hexagon are formed. You can place sticks one on other.


Wednesday, October 1, 2014

3 Quarter farm to Farmer's 4 Sons



A Farmer lives decided to keep one quarter of farm to himself and divides the remaining farm to his four sons equally. Can you show how to divide with help of 8 more sticks.


Answer:

Image is inverted here..



Roman Numbers Puzzle


XXII
------ = II
VIII
Above equation is made of Roman numerals.  X (=10), V (=5), III (=3) and II (=2). Can you correct the equation by moving only one stick.




Pi or π or Π is equal to 22/7. Thus left hand side equals to right hand side.

Saturday, September 27, 2014

3 Squares to 4 Squares

In the above figure notice three squares. Move two sticks so that 4 squares are formed.



Squares
1 - P
2 - Q+R
3 - R+S
4 - S+T

Fly in Wine Glass

A fly in a wineglass as shown above. Bring it out of wine glass by moving 2 matchsticks. The glass should be similar.



Move stick 1 down and slide 4th stick. Glass will be in inverted form and fly comes outside of glass. 

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Five square to four square Sticks Puzzle

Five squares are made from sixteen sticks as shown above. Move only three sticks to new positions so that you are left with four squares. All sticks should be borders of four squares formed.


Here is answer