Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/215 - An Ingenious Match Puzzle
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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $215$
- An Ingenious Match Puzzle
- Place $6$ matches as shown, and then shift just one match without touching the others so that the new arrangement shall represent a fraction equal to $1$.
- The match forming the horizontal fraction bar must not be the one moved.
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Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Unclassified Problems: $215$. -- An Ingenious Match Puzzle
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Match Puzzles: $498$. An Ingenious Match Puzzle