Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/205 - The Square Window
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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $205$
- The Square Window
- A man had a window a yard square, and it let in too much light.
- He blocked up one half of it, and still had a square window a yard high and a yard wide.
- How did he do it??
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $205$. -- The Square Window
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Triangle, Square & Other Polygon Puzzles: $271$. The Square Window