Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/332 - A Bunch of Grapes/Solution
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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $332$
- A Bunch of Grapes
- Here is a rough conventionalized sketch of a bunch of grapes.
- The puzzle is to make a copy of it with one continuous stroke of the pencil,
- never lifting the pencil from the paper,
- nor going over a line twice throughout.
Solution
- There are various routes possible, and the diagram shows one of them.
- It is absolutely necessary that you begin at $A$ and end at $B$, or the reverse.
Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Solutions: $332$. -- A Bunch of Grapes
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Answers: $432$. A Bunch of Grapes