Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/336 - A Six-Sided Figure/Solution
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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $336$
- A Six-Sided Figure
- Here are $6$ matches arranged to form a regular hexagon.
- Can you take $3$ more matches and so arrange the $9$ as to show another regular $6$-sided figure?
Solution
Yes okay, we cheated.
This is in fact a perspective representation of a cube.
The six "sides" are of course its faces.
Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Solutions: $336$. -- A Six-Sided Figure
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Answers: $503$. A Six-Sided Figure