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#1 User is offline   rookie1ja Icon

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Posted 31 March 2007 - 03:41 PM

Rabbit Hutch - Back to the Matchstick Puzzles
In the picture there are little flats for 6 rabbits. Can you build a dwelling for these 6 rabbits with only 12 matches. Each rabbit must have an equally big space.

Edit: 6 separate flats are needed for the rabbits.
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Posted 16 April 2007 - 10:23 PM

All you have to do is make a hexagon and put lines to the center. There, all done!!!
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Posted 20 April 2007 - 12:43 PM

Exactly. Easy as that. I have added the picture.
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Posted 14 June 2007 - 08:16 PM

forgive my rudimentary drawing skills using paint. Each line is a matchstick three triangles split down the middle. Twelve sticks, six pens. yes? no?

Also, there is a way to make six identical rabbit pens using only ten matchsticks. Care to try?

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Posted 15 June 2007 - 12:26 PM

What about:

 ---------*---------*
*	*	*	*	*
|	|	|	|	|
|----+----*----+----*
|	|	|	|	|
|	|	|	|	|
 ---------*---------*


Just 11 matches and you also get two guest rooms!
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Posted 20 June 2007 - 05:31 PM

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forgive my rudimentary drawing skills using paint. Each line is a matchstick three triangles split down the middle. Twelve sticks, six pens. yes? no?

Also, there is a way to make six identical rabbit pens using only ten matchsticks. Care to try?

I don't think that works. Some of the matchsticks would end up shorter than the others (the ones splitting the triangles down the middle, I think). So you end up with 9 matchsticks and 3 sticks of a smaller size.
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Posted 21 June 2007 - 09:56 PM

What about removing the match stick on one side, then joining the two ends together, making a 3D circle with the same hutch design of the original drawing. Is this a legal solution?
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Posted 13 July 2007 - 08:54 PM

Since there is nothing that says you must have 6 separate flats for the rabbits, this works:
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Posted 16 July 2007 - 10:55 PM

wouldn't this also work (provided my drawing skills... or lack thereof, are excused)?

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Posted 25 July 2007 - 01:11 PM

I THINK THIS WILL WORK.

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