Playing with matches can be hazardous, but not always. Do you know matchstick puzzles are great fun and can boost your logic skills? Plus you don’t have to strike the matches! These math matchstick puzzles will only fire up your brain.
Here are matchstick puzzles for you that will test your ability to incorporate logic into the thinking process when analyzing a problem in order to come up with a solution.
Check Out 21 Matchstick Puzzles With Answers:
Let’s see how many math matchstick puzzles you can solve without looking at the solution.
1. Matchstick Puzzle – 2 triangles to 4
Here are two triangles made of six matches. Move only two matches to new positions to form 4 triangles. You are allowed to overlap matches.
Solution:
Keep the matches in the left-hand triangle intact.
From the right-hand triangle, pick one match on the far right and place it in the gap between the two original triangles at the top. Then pick the bottom right match and place it across the middle of the two new triangles.
Now you can see two new small triangles within the two bigger triangles – a total of four triangles.
2. Matchstick Puzzle – Swimming fish
For this fish matchstick puzzle, move only 3 matches so that the fish swims to the right. No overlapping.
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3. Matchstick Puzzle – Move 2 matchsticks to form 3 triangles.
Solution:
Move the top two matches from the bigger triangle and touch them to the top vertices of the smaller triangle that will make the three triangles.
4. Matchstick Puzzle – 1 Arrow to 2
In this brain teaser puzzle, you need to form 2 smaller arrows by moving 4 matches only.
Solution:
5. Matchstick Puzzle – Move 2 matchsticks to form 11 squares.
Solution:
6. Matchstick Puzzle – Make a square by moving just one match stick
Solution
To solve this viral matchstick puzzle, move the north pointing stick slightly to the top so its bottom edge meets the other matchsticks’ ends forming a square in the negative space.
7. Matchstick Puzzle – 16 squares to none
Remove 9 matches so that no square (of any size) remains.
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