Cherry in glass

[HS Thomas]

Put the cherry in the glass moving only two matches.

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    |O 

Go on try it ?

[Andrew Monkhouse]

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[HS Thomas]

Bravo! Here's a harder one , I think !
Move just two matches to make seven squares.

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 |__|__|
 |__|__|
 

[Andrew Monkhouse]

  ___
 |   |
 |___|___
 |_|_|   |
 |_|_|___|

[Mani Ram]

  ___
 |   |
 |___|___
 |_|_|   |
 |_|_|___|

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But the original puzzle had only 12 sticks, where as there are 20 sticks in your solution!
[ August 18, 2003: Message edited by: R Manivannan ]

[Andrew Monkhouse]

Hey, you try and draw overlapping matches using text! It doesnt look as good if I try and reduce it:

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OK, another one: only moving two matches, make 4 equal size boxes:

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[Mani Ram]

Originally posted by Andrew Monkhouse:
OK, another one: only moving two matches, make 4 equal size boxes:

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  |_|_|_|

 
 _   _
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  |_| |_|

[HS Thomas]

You make it seem easy, Andrew.
One final one.
A prisoner is locked up in a castle surrounded by a moat. Logs of equal length were used to shore up the moat. Luckily two more logs were left in the castle. Using the two logs the prisoner has to make a safe bridge to cross the moat.

                          __ __ __
                         |   __   |
                         |  |__|  |
                         |__ __ __| 

Imagine the logs (lines forming the outer square ) are of equal length. Use matchsticks if you have to; there are 3 matchsticks along each side of the moat.
Once he has crossed he has to make his way to an island in a lake. On the small island ,dead in the middle, is a small tree.The lake is large and deep and 300m wide and the escapee cannot swim.On the shore is another tree. He has stowed away a rope rather more than 300m long. How can he get from the shore to the island to hide away.

                        X                        
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               island  //  vvvvv vvvvv  vvvvvv
               tree   //            vvvvv         X
                            lake                  |
                       vvvvv   vvvvv             //shore  
                     vvvvv                      // tree            

Imagine the lake is a larger circle surrounding the island. The full stop is the shore tree, very close to the shore.The island tree is dead in the middle of o.

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regards
[ August 19, 2003: Message edited by: HS Thomas ]