The Problem
January 23, 2007Dougie Sumo over at Just Be posed a problem the other day which goes like this. Draw a star (with the inner lines) like this one
and then you can draw any 2 straight lines and you must create 10 INDIVIDUAL triangles.
Here is my first attempt that looked so promising but unfortunately it only creates 9.
I can tell you that getting 9 is no closer than the 5 you start with. I have wracked my brains for too many hours trying to do this one and am now stuck in a rut and keep doing the same things over and over again.
Nine little words: I hate you, I hate you, I hate you
I’ve been staring at it for an hour now.
Comment by Jeff — January 23, 2007 @ 11:47 am
The solution, if you dare… I had this one but must have miscounted - nearly killed me.
http://www.creativepuzzels.nl/spel/speel1/images2/pentagram.gif
Comment by Jeff — January 23, 2007 @ 11:58 am
I know you hate me but I hate Doug even more for giving it to me. I will not look at the solution cause if you know how much time I put into doing this … well .. its either solve it or never acknowledge it again!
Comment by Dalong — January 23, 2007 @ 12:27 pm
muwa ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaa……i know you can do it brownie….only 4 more weeks until school starts and then you can tell your students that you now have the solution as well…
Comment by doug — January 25, 2007 @ 1:51 pm
DONE DONE DONE DONE … FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY!!!!!! I must say I don’t hate you Mr. Iwasaki but you I cannot forgive you for what you have done!
Comment by Dalong — January 29, 2007 @ 2:40 am