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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $257$
- Five Lines of Four
- The diagram shows how ten counters may be placed on the points of the grid where the lines intersect,
- so that they form five straight lines with four counters in every line.
- Can you find a second way of doing this?
- Of course a mere reversal or reflection of the given arrangement is not considered different --
- it must be a new scheme altogether, and of course you cannot increase the dimensions of the diagram or alter its shape.
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Moving Counter Problems: $257$. -- Five Lines of Four
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Combinatorial & Topological Problems: Point Alignment Puzzles: $439$. Five Lines of Four