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an interesting puzzle
03-15-2017, 05:05 PM
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RE: an interesting puzzle
(03-15-2017 03:57 PM)Namir Wrote:  
(03-14-2017 11:41 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  OK, Dave posted the same time as me. He and Eric have the correct answer. The first figure has no unique features; all the rest do. This makes the first figure "odd man out."

Interesting puzzle, from the cover of the book "Can You Solve my Problems" by Alex Bellos.

Don, I think you are wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's the long rectangle that contains ALL THE OTHER SHAPES!!! No other shape has other shapes inside it.

Namir
Oh, I see what you mean. That "long (vertical) rectangle" is not one of the shapes to be evaluated, it is a relic of my cutting a copy of the book cover so that the name of the book was not revealed in the image I scanned.

Don
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an interesting puzzle - Don Shepherd - 03-14-2017, 08:38 PM
RE: an interesting puzzle - SlideRule - 03-14-2017, 09:32 PM
RE: an interesting puzzle - Don Shepherd - 03-14-2017, 10:20 PM
RE: an interesting puzzle - SlideRule - 03-14-2017, 11:46 PM
RE: an interesting puzzle - Don Shepherd - 03-15-2017, 12:56 AM
RE: an interesting puzzle - SlideRule - 03-15-2017, 02:49 AM
RE: an interesting puzzle - eried - 03-14-2017, 10:42 PM
RE: an interesting puzzle - StephenG1CMZ - 03-14-2017, 10:50 PM
RE: an interesting puzzle - smp - 03-14-2017, 10:56 PM
RE: an interesting puzzle - Don Shepherd - 03-14-2017, 11:36 PM
RE: an interesting puzzle - Don Shepherd - 03-14-2017, 11:41 PM
RE: an interesting puzzle - Namir - 03-15-2017, 03:57 PM
RE: an interesting puzzle - Don Shepherd - 03-15-2017 05:05 PM
RE: an interesting puzzle - Namir - 03-16-2017, 03:26 AM
RE: an interesting puzzle - Csaba Tizedes - 03-15-2017, 08:14 PM
RE: an interesting puzzle - Csaba Tizedes - 03-16-2017, 03:13 PM
RE: an interesting puzzle - Don Shepherd - 03-16-2017, 03:49 PM
RE: an interesting puzzle - Paul Dale - 03-16-2017, 10:24 PM



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