Puzzle Time: Playing With Matches
Puzzle time! Move three (and only three) matches and position them to create just four, i.e four and only four, (identical) triangles. No cutting the matches, either!
Click on to see the answer…
And here is the solution:
In the Dark 
January 13, 2015 at 11:34 am
I can make SIX identical triangles, but I think you mean four and only four….
January 13, 2015 at 12:14 pm
correct…
January 13, 2015 at 4:47 pm
Take the three matches from one triangle and prop them together on the other triangle to make a tetrahedron.
January 13, 2015 at 5:04 pm
Nice work Mark! Now, can you make six and only six triangles by moving three matches?
January 16, 2015 at 7:00 am
Please hide the solution in a link or something. Both pictures were starting at me as I opened the post. 😦
January 16, 2015 at 7:28 am
That’s exactly what I did. You should have to click to see the second image..
January 19, 2015 at 8:16 am
Firefox? Is that still a thing?
January 19, 2015 at 9:34 am
I just tried it on my Firefox and it works fine. I get a highlighted link saying “continue reading” and only by clicking that do I get the second picture…