Subj:.....The
Chinese Puzzle (S635)
From the book
"Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd"
Edited by Martin Gardner
From: Dover Publications in 1959
Divide
a square piece of paper into two
halves
which will fit together as shown.
The stocks which secure
the head and wrists of the unhappy
culprit shown in
the picture were made from a square piece
of wood divided into
two pieces. Like all mathematical
problems, the proposition
can be worked either way, namely,
to make a pair of
stocks by dividing a square, or to divide
the stocks into halves
which will fit together and form a
square.
Take a perfectly square
piece of paper and, without any
waste, cut it into
two pieces which will fit together and
form an oblong pair
of stocks, with openings as shown for
the head and wrists
of the culprite. The two pieces forming
the stocks can be
refitted back into a perfect square, with
the three openings
closed. There is a pretty trick connected
with the feat of
producing holes in the exact position shown.
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[The easiest solution
is to take the stock and cut it to make
the square.
The hole for the head is NOT a square.
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Click
'HERE'
to see and use my template of the stocks. |
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On my
web site I have fifteen other puzzles which
are to be cut into
two equal parts with one cut.
The small picture
on the right is an example of |
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one of these puzzles.
Click 'HERE' to see these
puzzles. - Al]
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