#SimplyLogical #matchstickpuzzle
By moving 4 match sticks, can you create 9 squares instead of 7.
Puzzles with matches are one of the most ancient types of logic exercises for both children and adults. The sense of these tasks is that you need to move one or more matches until a given condition is true. Advantages of “matchstick puzzles” are
Thinking - The main feature of match puzzles is that the answer is usually not obvious. Moreover, sometimes at first glance, it seems that it is impossible to get the answer at all. You usually need at least a few minutes to think or even try to solve the task . Such exercises are surely useful for “pumping” logic and spatial thinking.
Imagination - Here, everything is obvious: figuring out what will happen if you move some of the matches, one trains the “center of imagination” in the brain.
Decision-making ability - Here, everything is clear again as people with good logic and imagination are usually able to solve almost any problem, including non-standard ones.
Self-assessment - At first, one would never keep that in mind, though the correlation here is immediate. After solving a difficult problem, people start feeling more confident and don’t give in to difficulties anymore.
Matchstick puzzles are also rearrangement puzzles in which a number of matchsticks are arranged as squares, rectangles or triangles. The problem to solve is usually formulated as: "move n matchsticks to make m squares, triangles, or rectangles". Some matchstick problems are solved with planar topological graphs.
