Puzzle

[elisera]

Given 4 matchsticks of equal length, can you make a triangle and a square at the same time with the resulting shape having less than 7 corners?

 

[Calaen]

Edited cause she keeps changing the goal posts

 

[elisera]

For reference: Matchsticks must be kept whole and it has to have less than 7 corners

 

[Calaen]

Fuck

 

[tris-]

i can make 2 triangles and one square at the same time
it only has 2 corners

hmm forget that, i appear to have imagined what i made was actually a triangle

 

[elisera]

EDIT: LOL Tris go look up triangle then try again

But I still want you to make ONE triangle and ONE square

 

[Pirkel]

Given 4 matchsticks of equal length, can you make a triangle and a square at the same time with the resulting shape having less than 7 corners?

My answer is no.

What do I win?

 

[elisera]

No prizes for saying "no", and you win my admiration if you can do it as it took me bloody ages to figure it out

 

[tris-]

so they have to be kept whole.

what if the match stick was soaked in a certain agent to make the wood flex, what about that then eh?

or about a piece of string to section the triangle off?

 

[elisera]

how do you propose to make a triangle or a square with flexy bits of wood?...

 

[tris-]

is anything external from the 4 match sticks allowed to be used?

 

[elisera]

No - just the 4 whole matchsticks.

 

[Calaen]

you probably have to cross them over but i cant work out how :-(

 

[elisera]

Given that I am heading home in the next 10-15mins would you like the answer now or should I wait until tomorrow morning?

 

[tris-]

then how are you defining square, must it have 4 visible sides or can it have 3 sides with 1 missing side which you can imagine?

 

[elisera]

No sides of any of the shapes can be imagined.

 

[tris-]

what if i find a surface that happens to have a line in it. am i able to use that as a side?

 

[Alan]

One guy at work solved it, but his interoperation of "Square" is questionable

 

[Neffneff]

make a square with the matches, then burn one match away and leave a triangle?

 

[elisera]

Tris - no you can't do that either

Tears, by your statement I can already guess he is correct

make a square with the matches, then burn one match away and leave a triangle?

How does burning one side of a square make a triangle?? :touch:

 

[Infanity]

Whys it always matches? Give the toothpicks some love;(

 

[Neffneff]

How does burning one side of a square make a triangle?? :touch:

well, push the two open ends together ofc

so..square? four sides, four corners, ALL right angles? or are we looking for trapezoids/parralellagrams etc?

 

[elisera]

so..square? four sides, four corners, ALL right angles? or are we looing for trapezoids/parralellagrams etc?

Now you are asking the right sort of questions Neffneff but I won't answer them for you.. you have to figure it out for yourself!

 

[Neffneff]

*goes to fetch some matchsticks or sommit*

 

[Calaen]

Now you are asking the right sort of questions Neffneff but I won't answer them for you.. you have to figure it out for yourself!

are you a lady irl?

 

[elisera]

lol Actually yes Calaen, I am

What makes you ask?

EDIT: Well, I'm female at least... Before anyone who knows me starts to question the lady bit

 

[Neffneff]

i think i got it

edit: emphasiz on the "think"

 

[elisera]

You confident enough to share Neffneff?

 

[Calaen]

just wanted to check before I hurled barrels of abuse

but now I know you are a lady I will just say grrrrrrr im at work but im trying to do it it being the puzzle.

 

[Neffneff]

is it allowed to be a 3d model?