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Menacing Matchsticks

Category:Trick
Submitted By:calmsavior
Fun:*** (2.42)
Difficulty:*** (2.73)



Take seven matchsticks and arrange them on a table to make two adjacent squares of the same size. The matchsticks should look like the number 8.

Now, moving only two matchsticks, can you make....200?

You cannot:
Stack the matchsticks.
Bend or break the matchsticks.
Remove the matchsticks.

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Comments on this teaser


Posted by peanut09/12/06
Great teaser! Would make a really cool bar trick... :lol:

Posted by Pizzazz2u09/12/06
Very good! :P And, I bet you can create some tougher ones, yet! Keep them coming! :wink:

Posted by zigthepig09/12/06
That is a REAL trick... :P

Posted by unklemyke09/12/06
Sneaky! VERY sneaky!! But fun :roll: :D :evil: :lol:

Posted by Swordoffury139209/13/06
Great teaser! :D

Posted by Punk_Rocker09/13/06
Awesome. I never would have thought about that...Although I did think that the four dots was kind of weird. ~_^

Posted by rkaaland09/13/06
:lol: Very GOOD :lol:

Posted by Katelin09/13/06
Wow I thought that was just a small mistake that no one noticed...that was AWSOME! The idea of using a detail that is hard to see is good to begin with, but then making it something that seems unrelated, like just a simple error, is incredible! Keep up the great work! :D

Posted by scallio09/15/06
Okay, that wasn't fair... there was no space between those dots! I was working on making Roman numeral CC, but of course that darn 7th match stick was a problem!

Posted by blondebookworm09/15/06
great teaser! I didn't get the .200, so I tried to make the number 200, and could have done it in only two moves if I would have had one more matchstick.

Posted by not_very_smart09/19/06
very hard...very hard...but i figured it out!! keep them coming :D :-? :lol: :o

Posted by tupacalypse8809/22/06
It confused the hell out of me lol :-?

Posted by rashad09/22/06
Very Clever Should I say! Keep it up :wink:

Posted by trickster200509/28/06
i thought you meant to put the boxes side by side and remove the two right match stick to create cc which is roman numeral 200 but your way was cool too.

Posted by calmsavior09/28/06
you would need eight matchsticks to do that. :D

Posted by twinklyspangle10/04/06
I was thinking roman numerals as well. Well and truely tricked!

Posted by Lizzie71310/26/06
Arhhhh Good one :D I get it I am looking foward to harder ones yet Thanks :D

Posted by Quickq10/28/06
A strange teaser. :roll: Loved it when I saw the answer though. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Posted by Matio_Mario10/29/06
And we're supposed to know that you MEANT to put four? Maybe you made a mistake! Are we supposed to count your every typed character??? :evil:

Posted by calmsavior10/29/06
thats why its a trick

Posted by HyunYung11/10/06
wonderful i din't get it tho maybe if u put a space in front of the .200?

Posted by mik51211/11/06
ahhh so thats why you put those dots.... :oops: im soo stupid for not getting that one

Posted by lavender12/26/06
COOL 8)

Posted by starrychelx02/26/07
Wow, Matio Mario needs to chill... They got me with the four dots too, but not to the point of angering me! lol... I was convinced it was supposed to be CC but I just couldn't figure it out! Sneaky sneaky! :)

Posted by Kellington03/19/07
Now that's what I call a trick. :D

Posted by cooltigerr104/01/07
blaahhh.. lol i've done this before so its not new to me

Posted by smartsandsoccer12/28/07
That was dumb. . . you want us to take every single character literally. :-? :-? :-?

Posted by smartsandsoccer12/28/07
Actually that's not an ellipsis cuz there needs to be a space between every period. . . I just learned that in computers at school. :roll:

Posted by friesaregood01/13/08
Actually, that couldn't be the answer, because an elipses is used when something is missing, which means that there is something you're not telling us, and that something was in the spot where you were telling us what to do, so, yeah. :roll:

Posted by thisisme9104/04/08
smart. cool. 8) (though i didn't get it, LOL)

Posted by ObamaGirl01/24/09
lol, nice! :D

Posted by tigerlily3411/27/09
What a dirty trick! :D

Posted by braingle10004/01/10
I just want to point out that 0.200 and 0.2 are the same thing. :wink:

Posted by BOBdaMAN02/20/11
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat????????????????????????




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