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The Five Square PuzzleThis famous puzzle was often included in compendiums of puzzles in the 19th Century. This particular example is from a Jaques set of around 1860. |
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Several examples of the sheet of 5 squares shown opposite were supplied and the puzzler was challenged to convert this into a single large square with only two straight cuts. |
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Frequently the little boxes contain haphazardly spoiled pieces where the puzzler has not thought of testing their ideas with pencil on paper before getting out the scissors. |
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This is the correct cutting. |
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To be rearranged into the single large square.
The observant will notice that this puzzle has often been reproduced as already cut up wooden pieces: 5 triangles and 5 quadrilaterals to be made into a larger square.
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