Questions tagged [geometry]
A puzzle related to shapes, geometric objects (polygons, circles, solids, etc.) of any number of dimensions, relative position of figures, and the properties of space.
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A man is trapped in a cage and wants to escape but doesn't, even when given the keys. Why? [on hold]
Note: I have invented this puzzle myself as far as I know. I'm certainly not aware of having read it anywhere else. I have no idea whether it will be hard or easy.
A man is imprisoned in a strong ...
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Where does the emperor sit and why the earplugs?
The Emperor is annoyed that the crowd routinely chant out of step at the Empire's largest circular amphitheatre. For example, they are supposed to shout phrases in unison such as "Hail to the Emperor, ...
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Cutting a Slice of Cake Into Two
Driven out of a serious question, when sharing a slice of cake in a coffee shop how can my two friends split it without going down the middle (the cake is likely to crumble if you do this!)
Given a ...
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What is the area of the shaded region? (Overlapping areas) [closed]
What is the area of the region poly1 formed by the arcs 'cdke'. The square is of sides 10 units long. The region poly1 is formed by four overlapping quadrants.
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Dystopian Tax Collection
The year is 2081, and... oh, what can I say? Dystopian stories have been done to death.
I have a much more practical problem, though. I need to... gasp... pay my taxes.
I owe five different taxes: ...
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Hidden numbers (hand drawn)
I like doodling and had an idea based on a flash game, where numbers are hidden in a picture, and it's ended up better than i expected. So have fun with it. And if you can give feedback on it that ...
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Where are the extra coins?
I am a manager of a coin casting foundry. We produce perfectly round coins with some (fixed) thickness and a diameter of exactly 1 inch. The working room is well-secured such that if any coin tries to ...
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Traverse a 3 × 3 × 3 cube; starting from the center [duplicate]
Consider a 3 by 3 by 3 cube — in essence, a Rubix cube — like the one pictured in the following image:
Start from the cube in the middle, enclosed on all sides. Moving to only cubes that are directly ...
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Determining The Piangle
The Piangle is a unique triangle. Every circle has its unique Piangle. To create a Piangle, you cut a circle along its bottom radius, then you unroll the left side of the circle up and over to the ...
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What is the largest number of cubes that can be cut?
Consider a cube made up of 27 unit cubes. If you consider a plane going through the middle of the larger cube it cuts through a number of the unit cubes. The number of cubes that are cut depends on ...
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When did I make this puzzle?
I was flipping through some of my old puzzling notebooks, and I found an old puzzle of mine I don't quite remember.
I tried to find when I made it (I put the date I made all of my puzzles on them), ...
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Horror Episode #1: Shapely Shedding Light
I shined my flashlight on a wall in terror. It was 2 in the morning at my place and I thought I heard a voice in my head. At first when I saw what was in my light, I jumped back because it looked ...
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Mirrored clocks
Triangulating for the simplest puzzle that is still at least somewhat interesting to solve..
On the left side wall in this picture, we have two particular clocks:
1: an analog clock with identical ...
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Special triangles in convex polygons
Given identical 30-60-90 triangles, what is the convex polygon with the highest number of sides that I can build from them?
This seems a very easy task by first look, but I’m totally stuck right now. ...
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Golden Ratio plus 1 [closed]
There was an interesting puzzle by Presh Talwalker in 'MindYourDecisions' about finding the radius of a circle that was cotangent to two larger circles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0dZukEw1JY
I ...
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Cutting a cross made of 5 equal squares by 2 straight cut into 4 figure to together form a square
A figure consists of 5 equal squares in the form of a cross. Please show how to divide it with two straight cuts into 4 equal pieces which will fit together to form a square.
A MSE told me I need to ...
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Which polygon is the one?
There is a unit-radius circle and you must form a polygon all of whose vertices are located on the circle, such as below:
What is the biggest possible value of the sum of squares of side lengths of ...
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A small team doing their job
Find the unique solution to
$$ 5\,ninja + retook + quarter + turn = \_\,\_\,\_\,\_ + \_\,\_\,\_\,\_\,\_\,\_\,\_\,\_\,\_\,\_ $$
where each unknown is a different
_ _ _&#...
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Matchstick Puzzles
Puzzle #1:
There is a matchstick:
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Add 2 more matchsticks to make the number, 11.
Puzzle #2:
There is a palace made out of 11 matchsticks:
Move 2 matchsticks to make 11 squares.
Puzzle #3:
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Which of the six tiles is missing? — An IQ Test Question
Which of the six tiles below is missing?
I honestly do not know the answer. I took a screenshot of this from an online IQ test a while back. If you know where it is from, please let me know, and I ...
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Points in the tetrahedron
There is a regular tetrahedron with edge ledge of $2$ units. Your task is to put as many points within the volume occupied by the tetrahedron.
But there is a condition: there has to be at least $1$ ...
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can only enter each room once question [duplicate]
3x3 cube with no center square so 26 cubes, You can start where ever you like and need to visit every room(cube exactly once)
A valid operation is going any adjacent cube that is not diagonally ...
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Hexagon in a circle
Similar and Hint to: Dodecagon in a big circle
There are $6$ bars which comprise two groups of $3$, $3$: each group has identical bars but every group has a distinct length of bars.
For example;
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Dodecagon in a big circle
There are $12$ bars which comprise three groups of $6$, $3$ and $3$: each group has identical bars but every group has a distinct length of bars.
For example;
Group 1 may consist of six ...
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Mr. Sloane's Tree
Mr. Sloane is a man that likes to draw trees with dots.
Give him two dots and he'll draw you one tree, but give him three and he'll draw you no tree.
How many trees can he draw with 6 dots? and with ...
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Lots of Parallelepiped
A,B,C,D are four points which are not on the same plane.
How many different parallelepiped can be constructed whose vertices are these points?
Parallelepiped is a solid figure with six faces ...
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Rectangular Prisms
Eight corner bricks are taken out from a 5x5x5 block, which is something like below:
How many rectangular prisms of all sizes can be counted in this block?
Source: Oyun 2018 Final Exam Question
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Inner Triangles in the circle
$18$ points are selected on the circumference of a circle, all of which are connected to each other by straight lines.
If no three lines intersect at a common point,
What is the number of a ...
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Too many Circles
Using 20 Circles, what is the maximum number of intersecting point that can be obtained?
For example, if there were 3 circles, the answer would be $6$ as shown below:
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6 piece mystery puzzle help!
So I have NO CLUE how to put this back together. I don't even remember what it looks like or what it's even called. I took it apart 3 years ago and it's still driving me crazy. Anyone have any ideas?!?...
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A Stick and Two Similar Triangles
You have X centimeters of a straight stick. You divide this stick into 4 pieces. All sticks have distinct integer centimeters lengths.
After that you form a triangle, then take one of the stick of ...
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Form Common Geometric Shapes
You are given 1,000,000 units of straight thin stick and your task is to create one triangle, one square, one rectangle by cutting the stick into sides.
None of the side of each shape has common ...
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A coin fitting puzzle [duplicate]
I recently heard about this intriguing puzzle:
I have a tray of length 5 and width 2 so 10 round coins of width 1
will fit in it snugly without overlaps. No room for another.
Similarly, a tray ...
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Moving 4 sticks to form 8 equilateral triangles
We have $6$ thin sticks with the same length parallel to each other shown below:
The distance between neighbor sticks are unknown and for sure smaller than half the length of the sticks themselves as ...
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15 squares into 3 stars
You are given $15$ unit squares as shown below:
You would like to create $3$ six-sided stars as something like shown below by only using given $15$ squares:
How is it possible if possible?
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What is the area of the shaded region? [closed]
The area of the square is 16 sq. units. A semicircle is inscribed on a side of the square with its diameter being that side of the square. An equilateral triangle rests with its base, on the opposite ...
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$\verb|Eight Circles|$
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #37: Rare and Endangered 1
Materials
Pencil;
Eraser;
Blank A4 sheet of paper; and
A ruler (also to use as a straightedge).
Puzzle:
Draw a square with a side-...
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Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
The following is a "Laser Maze."
The goal is to place the tools into the maze so that when the power is turned up to maximum:
The beam will split into two beams
The beams (collectively) will ...
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Piece of Cake for King Solomon
Today (7th of July, 2018) marks 40 years of independence for the Solomon Islands.
To celebrate, I have decided to bake a cake! And what a pretty cake it's going to be:
When viewed from the top, ...
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3 points on a circle [duplicate]
There is a circle where you put 3 points randomly on it as shown below:
What is the chance of these randomly chosen three points passing on an half circle?
Reference: Bilim Teknik Dergisi 2018-07
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Train Rail Length [closed]
A 100 meter long train rail expanded under the sun. The center of the rail went up 1 meter above the group while the two ends are still attached to the ground - The whole rail forms an arc.
How long ...
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Create a map of a game's portals
Given a set of rooms, each with a N, a S, an E, and a W exit/entrance to another of the rooms, create as simple a map as possible that graphically represents their connections.
The rooms in question ...
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Reach for the moon
A rectangular strip of 1 mm thick paper has length = 500 m and width = 1 m. It is lying on a horizontal floor and you are allowed to rotate and fold this inelastic paper as often as possible.
What is ...
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Tiling rectangles with a Heptomino plus 2x2 square
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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Tiling rectangles with Heptomino plus rectangle #7
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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The Dollar Bill
Bill was asked to form as many triangles on top of a flat table using his 5 pennies (3 coins on the table where centers are connected by imaginary lines to make a triangle). His teacher told him that ...
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Tiling rectangles with Heptomino plus rectangle #6
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #3
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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This is a Mensa IQ test from Norway. The last puzzle. [duplicate]
I solved all of the questions except this one. I checked and the answer in the bottom left one. I couldn't find any pattern or relations that would help me understand why or how one reaches the answer....
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Tiling rectangles with Heptomino plus rectangle #4
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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