Questions tagged [construction]
A puzzle that requires an example to be built that fits certain criteria.
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Rigid regular nonagon from 21 Meccano strips
You are given 21 Meccano strips, where the distance between adjacent holes is 1 unit:
9 strips of length 10 (hence having 11 holes)
6 strips of length 18 (19 holes)
6 strips of length 19 (20 holes)
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Doubling the cube with rational Meccano strips
In three monographs published in 2006, 2008 and 2014 Gerard 't Hooft considered "Meccano mathematics": how to construct specified distances and regular polygons by a rigid system of ideal ...
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4x4 words grid optimization
Given that each letter in the English alphabet has a position:
$$a = 1, b = 2, ..., z = 26$$
Can you place 16 different letters such that:
Each row, column and diagonal forms a 4 letter valid English ...
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