A TRICK TO TRY.
Here is a simple trick to try. With sixteen matches make four separate squares. Now ask your friends if they can make- five squares the same size, using the same number of mutches. This can be done by arranging the matches as shown in the second sketch.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 15 September 1928, Page 15
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51A TRICK TO TRY. Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 15 September 1928, Page 15
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