Puzzle 29
Using exactly four straight lines, without taking your pen off the (virtual) paper, can you join all nine dots?
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and cannot be clicked.
A Charming Puzzle – Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book, A. Cyril Pearson.
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Think outside the box.
Answer
Start from the top left dot, and go past the top right dot, and then diagonally down to the bottom left dot, back up to the top left dot, and diagonally down to the bottom right dot.
Puzzle 30
Can you find the country hidden in the following paragraph:
The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which you can find the lesser-spotted great weevil.
Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone
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The country spans more than one word.
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Peru.
The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleePER, Under which you can find the lesser-spotted great weevil.
Puzzle 31
Which of the shapes is identical to the first one?
There might be more than one.
Puzzle Copyright © Robert A. Hartmann
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Try to rotate them around in your head, but watch out for mirror images.
Puzzle 32
How many hexagon-type shapes, in total, can you find in this puzzle?
Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone
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There are more than 37, look at the different sizes.
Answer
There are 64 hexagon-type shapes in total.
Reasoning
37 single hexagons
+ 19 hexagons that contain 7 smaller hexagons
+ 7 hexagons that contain 19 smaller hexagons
+ 1 large hexagon that contains all of the smaller hexagons.
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