Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/338 - The Three Matches
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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $338$
- The Three Matches
- Can you place $3$ matches on the table, and support the matchbox on them,
- without allowing the heads of the matches to touch the table, to touch one another, or to touch the box?
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Unclassified Problems: $338$. -- The Three Matches
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Match Puzzles: $505$. The Three Matches