Matchstick Puzzles

Easy Medium Hard Extreme ADD 4 matchsticks to make the equation true. The following rules apply: - No number is greater than...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme The size of the layout shown above is exactly 4 square matchsticks. Make sure to understand that A + ...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme There are 6 equal triangles in the layout above. MOVE 2 matchsticks to form 5 equal triangles. Sho...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme TAKE AWAY 6 matchsticks so that there are no triangles left. Show Answer Hide Answer

Easy Medium Hard Extreme ADD 3 matchsticks to make the equation true. The following rules apply: - No number is greater than...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme The above square is divided into 3 parts in the ratio 2:3:4. Change this ratio to 2:2:5 by moving onl...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme Three matchsticks form 2 right angles as shown in Figure A above. By moving only 1 matchstick you can...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme Move only 2 matchsticks to create 6 squares. The squares are allowed to differ in size. However, squ...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme This puzzle is similar to but different from numbers 517 and 592 . In the figure above 9 matchstick...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme A farmer lives on the area marked "A" on his farm. He decides to divide the rest of the far...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme Credit: The Moscow puzzles (1972) Boris A. Kordemsky The length of a matchstick is 1 unit, so in t...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme The length of a matchstick is 1 unit. Use 12 matchsticks to create an area of 3 square units. To make...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme There are 5 squares in the layout above, 4 small and 1 big. Move 2 matchsticks to create 3 squares o...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme There are three islands in the ocean and your challenge is to construct a bridge to connect them. Unf...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme MOVE 2 matchsticks in the layout above to divide it into 2 parts equal in shape and size. Show An...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme A rugby player missed a kick to goal by kicking the ball to the right of the posts and also lower tha...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme There are no squares in the layout above. Move 4 matchsticks to change the cross into 4 EQUAL squares...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme You would need math skills to solve this one. The equation 7/9 = 3 is not true. Move only 2 match...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme Shown above is an eight sided convex polygon built from 2 squares and 6 triangles. 17 matchsticks wer...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme Move 4 matchsticks to convert the cup and saucer into 3 DIFFERENT in size triangles. Show Answer ...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme In the figure above are 4 equal triangles. Move 4 matchsticks to create 2 equal triangles. Show An...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme MOVE 3 matchsticks to create only 3 squares. The 3 squares must have 3 DIFFERENT sizes. Show Answe...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme There are 4 squares in the layout above. A broken matchstick is exactly half the length of a full len...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme Reduce the number of squares from 3 to 2 by moving 3 matchsticks. Squares may differ in size. Show...

Easy Medium Hard Extreme Move 4 matchsticks to create 5 triangles. The triangles may differ in size. Show Answer ...