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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.

Hint:

What AM I asking you to make?

Look carefully ....

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