Wednesday, September 09, 2009

[match tricks five] try before you check

A farmer needed 13 hurdles to make these 6 enclosures.

Now make 6 enclosures of equal size using 12 hurdles.


Check the solution here.

You might like to try these too:

Matchtricks 1
Matchtricks 2
Matchtricks 3
Matchtricks 4

2 comments:

  1. Three solutions this time.

    The 'stock one'

    Maing a triangle exactly as is and removing one match at the end.

    Making two fence type enclosures of three bars. Top and bottom are one match.

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