close four groups of four squares each.
There are obvious and easy ways of
doing it with 8, 10, or 12 matches, but
these are even numbers.
It may only take the reader a few
moments to discover the four distinc-
tive ways (mere reversals and reflec-
tions not counting as different) of
doing it with an odd number of
matches. Of course no duplicated
matches are allowed.
I
VII
Match Puzzles 203- AN INGENIOUS
MATCH PUZZLE
Place six matches as shown, and
then shift one match without touching
the others so that the new arrange-
ment shall represent an arithmetical
fraction equal to I. The match form-
ing the horizontal fraction bar must
not be the one moved. - FIFTY-SEVEN TO NOTHING
After the last puzzle, this one should be easy.
It will be seen that we have arranged six cigarettes (matches will do just as
well) so as to represent the number 57. The puzzle is to remove any two of them