PUZZLES

TRIANGLE PUZZLE Equipment: Six pencils/pens (or six matchsticks or cocktail sticks) of equal length. Arrange the pencils/sticks as in the picture right. Now make four equilateral triangles (same length sides) using the pencils/sticks. Each triangle must be the same size, and every side of each triangle must be the same length as the sticks provided. No breaking sticks/pencils allowed. shovel puzzle Equipment: Four matchsticks (or four cocktail sticks or four pens/pencils) and a coin. Make the shape of a shovel, containing a coin. Now make the same shovel, no longer containing the coin, by moving only two sticks. This is not a trick question, although there is a lateral-thinking aspect to the solution.