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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $128$
- Lines and Squares
- Here is a simple question.
- With how few straight lines can you make exactly one hundred squares?
- Thus, in the first diagram it will be found that with nine straight lines I have made twenty squares
- So, you see, everything depends on how the lines are drawn.
- Remember there must be exactly one hundred squares -- neither more nor fewer.
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Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $128$. -- Lines and Squares
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Triangle, Square & Other Polygon Puzzles: $259$. Lines and Squares