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[edit: This solution is wrong, as one of my lines has only 3 magnets in it]

Here's a picture of one way to do it.

[![10 lines of 4][1]][1] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/O1CYz.png


Draw the lines around and through the centre trapezoid first, then horizontal top and bottom lines, and then the sloping left and right lines. Each time you draw a line there are no more than 2 points already fixed that the line has to go through, so they can all be straight lines.

(I don't know how to spoiler an image, sorry)

10 lines of 4 Draw the lines around and through the centre trapezoid first, then horizontal top and bottom lines, and then the sloping left and right lines. Each time you draw a line there are no more than 2 points already fixed that the line has to go through, so they can all be straight lines.

Here's a picture of one way to do it.

[![10 lines of 4][1]][1] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/O1CYz.png


Draw the lines around and through the centre trapezoid first, then horizontal top and bottom lines, and then the sloping left and right lines. Each time you draw a line there are no more than 2 points already fixed that the line has to go through, so they can all be straight lines.

(I don't know how to spoiler an image, sorry)

[edit: This solution is wrong, as one of my lines has only 3 magnets in it]

Here's a picture of one way to do it.

10 lines of 4 Draw the lines around and through the centre trapezoid first, then horizontal top and bottom lines, and then the sloping left and right lines. Each time you draw a line there are no more than 2 points already fixed that the line has to go through, so they can all be straight lines.

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Jaap Scherphuis
  • 55.7k
  • 8
  • 130
  • 221

Here's a picture of one way to do it.

[![10 lines of 4][1]][1] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/O1CYz.png


Draw the lines around and through the centre trapezoid first, then horizontal top and bottom lines, and then the sloping left and right lines. Each time you draw a line there are no more than 2 points already fixed that the line has to go through, so they can all be straight lines.

(I don't know how to spoiler an image, sorry)