Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/211 - The Twenty Matches

by : $211$

 * The Twenty Matches
 * The diagram shows how $20$ matches, divided into two groups of $14$ and $6$,
 * may form two enclosures so that one space enclosed is exactly $3$ times as large as the other.


 * Dudeney-Puzzles-and-Curious-Problems-211.png


 * Now divide the $20$ matches into two groups of $13$ and $7$,
 * and with them again make two enclosures,
 * one exactly three times as large as the other.

Also see

 * $335$ - Three Times the Size, in the same collection