Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/199 - The Hidden Star

Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $199$

The Hidden Star

The illustration represents a square tablecloth of choice silk patchwork.

This was put together by the members of a family as a little birthday present for one of its number.

One of the contributors supplied a portion in the form of a perfectly symmetrical star,

and this has been worked in exactly as it was received.

But the triangular pieces so confuse the eye that it is quite a puzzle to find the hidden star.

Can you discover it, so that, if you wished, by merely picking put the stitches,

you could extract it from the other portions of the patchwork?

Sources

• 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Patchwork Puzzles: $199$. -- The Hidden Star
• 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Triangle, Square & Other Polygon Puzzles: $267$. The Hidden Star