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Paint 21 Squares of a 7×7 Board Without Forming a Rectangle
Got a nice puzzle from my friend, when he was competing in IWYMIC/IMC 2011.
Paint $21$ of the $49$ squares of a $7 \times 7$ board so that no four painted squares form the four corners of a rectangle....
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