Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/277 - Tessellated Tiles
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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $277$
- Tessellated Tiles
- Here we have $20$ tiles, all coloured with the same four colours.
- The puzzle is to select any $16$ of these tiles that you choose and arrange them in the form of a square,
- always placing same colours together -- white against white, red against red, and so on.
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Combination and Group Problems: $277$. -- Tessellated Tiles
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Combinatorial & Topological Problems: Miscellaneous Combinatorial Puzzles: $460$. Tessellated Tiles