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kyle1234513
May 18th, 2014, 03:22 PM
A fire officer has 12 matchsticks lying in front of her. She removes just one of them. She now sees 9 in front of her. How is this possible?

powerofdeath with the fastest correct response so far!

Answer - The matches are arranged in such a way that they spell out the word " NINE " this takes up 11 matches. 16746

powerofdeath
May 18th, 2014, 03:31 PM
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11 matches form the word NINE

kyle1234513
May 18th, 2014, 03:33 PM
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could you give an explanation?

powerofdeath
May 18th, 2014, 03:35 PM
could you give an explanation?

I did

kyle1234513
May 18th, 2014, 03:35 PM
powerofdeath is correct!

powerofdeath
May 18th, 2014, 03:36 PM
powerofdeath is correct!

It was easy. When I was in 6th grade, we experimented a lot with sticks to make up something.