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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Find the Rogue with AOE
You are playing World of Warcraft which is well known an old MMORPG game. You are in arena where you play against another player. You are a mage and the opponent is a rogue which can hide while moving ...
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What's the perimeter of this poorly specified triangle? [duplicate]
Generalizing a puzzle from Mind Your Decisions, here's something that I found to be rather neat.
Suppose that AB$=c$, AC$=b$, and BC$=a$. What's the perimeter of $\triangle$CDE?
Clue: The coveted ...
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Finding a line on a plane
Imagine you are on an (in)finite 2d-plane (and confined to walk on it). There's a straight line somewhere on the plane, but you don't know where it is and neither can you find it by looking from afar. ...
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Pentomino solution maximizing straight lines length in rectangle - wood cutter problem
Recently in my free time I cut from wood with my scroll saw two pentomino sets. One set made from 10x6 pattern, and then the other set 20x3 pattern. Think of wood cutter difficulties. I would like to ...
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What is the maximum total possible number of rectangles in the picture?
Your objective for this puzzle is to find the maximum total number of rectangles in the pictured four overlapping squares. I believe it may be more than 36.
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Four squares into many squares
You are given four unit squares and your task is to form as many rectangles as possible out of it starting from 1 square (by overlapping every squares into each other) to N, one by one (2,3,4...). So ...
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Enumerate the ways of putting six armies of queens on a humongous chessboard
This is a sort of a sub-problem of the open puzzle Peaceful Encampments, for high numbers of armies.
Consider a chessboard with an astronomically large number of vanishingly small squares, on which ...
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Pucks in the arena
Two identical pucks of radius 10 cm are placed in a round arena of radius 1 m. They are positioned 50 cm away from the center of the arena on opposing sides. Assuming no energy losses during sliding ...
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Proving the count of symmetric configurations of pentagon
In a 3 × 3 dot grid, there are 5 configurations of symmetric pentagons. I am confused about how to prove that it is really just 5. Can anyone enlighten me?
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Discrete Peaceful Encampments: Player 4 has entered the game!
Here's a variation of Discrete Peaceful Encampments: Player 3 has entered the game! (which itself is a variation of Peaceful Encampments).
You have 3 white queens, 3 black queens, 3 red queens, and ...
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Discrete Peaceful Encampments: Player 3 has entered the game!
Here's a variation of Discrete Peaceful Encampments: 9 queens on a chessboard (which itself is a variation of Peaceful Encampments).
You have 4 white queens, 4 black queens, and 4 red queens. Place ...
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Discrete Peaceful Encampments: 9 queens on a chessboard
Here's a discrete variation of yesterday's puzzle Peaceful Encampments.
You have 8 white queens and 8 black queens. Place all these pieces onto a normal 8x8 chessboard in such a way that no white ...
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Peaceful Encampments
This math puzzle is due to Donald Knuth (as far as I know; maybe he got it from someone else) circa 2014.
Consider a plain represented by the unit square. On this plain we want to “peacefully ...
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Ray reflection inside the cube
Here's a seemingly interesting puzzle that i currently can't solve. Any ideas are highly appreciated. I was told that it's a middle school level problem but it's definitely not the simple one. At ...
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Spider and fly on a cube
A spider and a fly play a game with a cube of side length $s=1$ and with a positive real number $d$.
First, the spider picks its starting point $S$ somewhere on the surface of the cube.
Then the fly ...
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Fill $N$ by $M$ grid with numbers in such a way that any given cells' neighbors are different
Create an $N$ by $M$ grid with numbers in such a way that satisfies following conditions:
numbers should be integers that range from $1$ to $r$.
for any cell $C$, all its adjacent neighbors (i.e. ...
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What's the most triangles you can make with 4, 5 or 6 straight lines?
All the triangles can stick together. The triangles counted is the independent triangles, triangles made up of two shapes, a triangle made up from 3 shapes, or the outline of the shape consisting of 4,...
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The Lazy Laser Physicist
You have a setup like in the image above. But it seems like detector A does some weird things. You should better check it with detector B. What is the minimum number of mirrors you have to move (...
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Color the cubes, then assemble them to form a larger cube
Goal: Paint 27 cubes using three colors (for example, red, yellow, and blue), so that you can form a 3x3x3 cube with all surfaces in red (for example), a 3x3x3 cube all in yellow, and a 3x3x3 cube all ...
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What's the radius?
I have a book of puzzles from 1972 with the pretentious title, "Games for the Superintelligent" by James Fixx. One puzzle had me thinking for a couple of days:
I drew it out, thought about different ...
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A man is trapped in a cage and wants to escape but doesn't, even when given the keys. Why? [closed]
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?!?...
