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Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems: Geometrical Problems: Patchwork Puzzles
$198$ - The Patchwork Cushion
- A lady had $20$ pieces of silk, all of the same triangular shape and size.
- She found that four of these would fit together and form a perfect square, as in the illustration.
- How was she to fit together these $20$ pieces to form a perfectly square patchwork cushion?
- There must be no waste, and no allowance need be made for turnings.
$199$ - 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?