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I think you have a
Reasoning
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Here is another fairly lateral one:
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Demonstration:
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Possibly a little too lateral but if we
And then
We get
which could be interpreted as
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Assuming the picture is a bit off (seems like a safe assumption given that the areas don't quite match), I'm going to assume that the rectangles are scaled in
Some nice integer side lengths that achieve these proportions are
These particular shapes allow for this interesting dissection:
All the horizontal bits are supposed to be of the same length (5 ...
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Is the following the solution for the 2-piece problem?
Regarding the 3-piece puzzle, I'm not sure if the following solution will meet your criteria:
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First move a matchstick like so
Then observe from the other direction
Giving
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Alternatively you can
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A bit of a stretch, but here goes:
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Required Equation will be like this:
Attempt 1:
Attempt 2:
Attempt 3: (though answer is already given and accepted. I am trying another way)
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We could also put one matchstick onto another matchstick so it covers it completely, making $17=17$.
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Surely everybody is staring in horror because:
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My answer is
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The answer is
Using the provided buckets it's actually exhilaratingly simple.
How the buckets work:
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Maybe this happended:
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A few possibilities, some of which are cheaty.
The simplest possibility, which I don't see anything in the story to rule out, is that
This still leaves unexplained
but there would seem to be many possibilities for that. This seems too straightforward an answer to be the intended solution, if this is a puzzle, but "in the real world" it would ...
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I think the answer might be
My prefix is not known,
Rather it has some meaning or some mark,
But my suffix has magic powers,
And my infix depends on smart remark.
My whole is about choice, has a meaning or two.
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The best option is for the captive to say one of the following:
Either...
or...
The reasoning is simple:
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You should tell
this is a famous paradox, I think. In this way
Anyway
So I'm not sure this is a good answer.
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