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Here is my first puzzle, so I hope you like it. I can see this puzzle going under more than topic area here, but I hope this one will do:

Please take 5 regular matches from a matchbook and arrange them in a perfect cube. No bending, breaking, warping or otherwise altering the matches are allowed.

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Edited February 11, 2008 by Boilersrock

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XVI -perfect cube of IV.

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X-X is a perfect cube of 0

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(which is 1^3 although I can't make it look as pretty in text)

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XVI -perfect cube of IV.

That isn't a perfect cube. That is a perfect square. LXIV is the perfect cube of IV.