Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/215 - An Ingenious Match Puzzle

Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $215$

An Ingenious Match Puzzle

Place $6$ matches as shown, and then shift just one match without touching the others so that the new arrangement shall represent a fraction equal to $1$.

The match forming the horizontal fraction bar must not be the one moved.

Sources

• 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Unclassified Problems: $215$. -- An Ingenious Match Puzzle
• 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Match Puzzles: $498$. An Ingenious Match Puzzle