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- HEXAGON TO DIAMONDS
Here is another match puzzle for
young readers. With 6 matches form
a hexagon, as here shown. Now, by
moving only 2 matches and adding 1
more, can you form two diamonds?Match Puzzles 207- SQUARES WITH MATCHES
Arrange 12 matches on the table, as
shown in the illustration. Now it is
required to remove 6 of these matches
and replace them so as to form five
squares. Of course 6 matches must
remain unmoved, and there must be
no duplicated matches or loose ends.j' \
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- QUEER ARITHMETIC
Can you show with matches how to take seven-tenths from five so that
exactly four remains?- COUNTING THE MATCHES
A friend writes to say he bought a little box of midget matches, each one inch
in length. He found that he could arrange them all in the form of a triangle
whose area was just as many square inches as there were matches. He then used
up six of the matches, and found that with the remainder he could again con-
struct another triangle whose area was just as many square inches as there