Can You Solve These Matchstick Puzzles?

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[MindYourDecisions]

Here are four more fun matchstick videos you can share at a party or in a bar/restaurant. 1) This Matchstick Puzzle Is "Extremely Hard" For Adults (765, 758 views)

2) Solutions to 3 Matchstick Puzzlers (324, 743 views)

3) Can You Solve The Viral Matchstick Puzzle 6 + 4 = 4? (336, 527 views)

4) Can You Solve The HARDEST Matchstick Puzzle? "Outside The Box" Thinking! (65, 027 views)

[GinoTC]

This is probably overdone but I think "precious tile worker" is the funniest caption I've seen of your name to date. On par with Cumberbatch.

[ellaenchanted]

For the remove 3 end with 5, if you set the matches a different way, the middle space could count as a tiny square.

[simon_patterson]

That's 3 neat solutions. I didn't see a rule that said you couldn't have sticks left dangling, so I thought 1 and 3 were simple. I enjoyed your solution to 2 though.

[NestorAbad]

I played these with my children and we enjoyed a lot, thanks!

[kookeekwisp]

What happened to your famous math explanations? Come on, i had this one long before i saw this!

First ask the question: How many matchsticks does it take to make a square? Using exactly four matchsticks, you start with one. To make a second square, you could use either 3 or 4 matchsticks, connecting at the corner, or using one shared side. To make a fourth, you need at least 2 more matchsticks.
To determine how many squares you need to remove, you need to do some calculating. First, count the number of matchsticks, then subtract the amount of matchsticks you need to remove, which makes twelve. Divide that by the amount of squares you need, and you get, on average, how many matchsticks you need for each square.
Since the result is 12, and 3 squares means we need 4 for each, which means none of the squares can be connected at the sides, or else you'd have 11 sticks with a remainder, so just look for the 3 existing squares that are connected at the corner.

[G.Aaron.Fisher]

It would be nice if you could provide exact definitions for these puzzles, to clarify whether it's a math puzzle or a "lateral thinking" puzzle. In this case, the precise rules are "Remove N matchsticks so that 1) exactly X squares coincide with the remaining matchsticks, and 2) each remaining matchstick coincides with the perimeter of at least one of those squares." Relaxing either of those conditions permits multiple unintended solutions.

[Minder]

I got two squares, removing 4 sticks. :D

[rubixmanx]

Dang, when my mouse hovered over the thumbnail and it played the preview, it spoiled the solution :(

[selvireji]

The first one was good but the next two were inappropriate according to the figure....

[brucefulton]

You can remove two sticks to leave three squares if a couple of dangling sticks are acceptable.

[matthewalbright]

Why do I make 5 squares into 5 squares when they're already 5 squares??!!??!!??🤔🤨🤔🤨🤔🤨🤔🤨🤔🤨

[danielbuttons]

For the 3rd solution you can also take our two sticks from upper left side (horizontal and vertical) and three sticks from right side ( two horizontal and one vertical) and you’ll have 2 squares

[lakshaylohchab]

Ques1.
There are 3 ponds nad 3 temple
We have some flowers. When we go to first pond we wash and have double flowers and then donate some flowers on the temple . Now, we go to second pond and wash the remaning flowers the remaning flowers becomes double of remaning flowers now we go to second temple and donates some flowers on it and then go to 3 pond and wash the remaning flowers the flowers become double and donate some flowers on the 3 temple . Now the numbers of donated flowers on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, temple are have to be same and we have 0 zero flowers left with us at last .Find the number Of flowers we take, number of flowers donated ?

Plese tell me the solution of this problem as soon as possible.

[PoetxRatedRKO]

for c) there are more solutions (remove different 2 sticks in the middle, but this is just logical). Of course I found all of them because this video was uploadaed on my birthday!

[valentinrusu]

i love your vids and all, but that 'ding' from the countdown is really annoying... or maybe's just morning-me talking

[ostrich_dog]

You could do C removing only 4 sticks, the sticks in the middle of the large square, that would have left that big square andthe one on the top left

[qwertyTRiG]

Before watching:

(a) Remove 3 sticks to leave 3 squares.

This is trivial unless we assume a rule against dangling sticks. To avoid dangling sticks, remove the two sticks from the bottom left corner, and the centre top, leaving three squares connected at their corners.

(b) Remove 3 sticks to leave 5 squares.

Remove the three sticks forming the square sticking out to the top right. This leaves four small squares which also form one large square, leaving five in total.

(c) Remove 5 sticks to leave 2 squares.

Remove the top right square, as in Question B. Also remove two sticks inside the larger square. This leaves one large square and one internal small square.

[thiantromp]

If you simply remove the middle four in the big square on the final problem, you'll also be left with 2 squares

[malmiteria]

"leave x squares" doesn't mean it has to be squares only, so u can let some random stick alone being simple segment. Does that makes sense?