Do you urgently need a break from home office?
Then try this riddle: Today everything revolves around four matches and a cherry.
Matchstick puzzles are still one of the most popular puzzles * on the Internet.
Rightly so, because in principle anyone can solve it with a little brainpower.
Like this one:
Matchstick puzzle: free the cherry from the glass!
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The cherry is still in the glass - but how does it come out?
Solve the puzzle?
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Today's riddle is concerned with a simple question:
How should the matches be placed in order to free the cherry from the glass in the end?
Of the four matches that form the glass,
only two
may be
moved
.
The shape of the glass must not change, but the alignment must.
Do you succeed?
Or do you fall for a popular mistake in thinking that makes most people fail?
If you think you know the solution, scroll down for the
correct solution
.
Also read:
Every second Japanese person fails this math problem for fifth graders.
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Were you able to arrange the matches correctly to solve the puzzle?
If so,
congratulations
!
For everyone else, here's the answer:
Many fail because of this mistake
Many Knobel friends come to this popular solution, but the one
flaw
underlies:
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Wrong: The alignment of the glass changes here - but the cherry is still inside the jar.
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The orientation of the glass changes here (the opening points downwards) - but
the cherry still remains in the glass
.
Not correct!
Also interesting:
Albert Einstein invented a riddle that almost nobody can solve - or can they?
Solution: How to free the cherry from the jar
In order to really free the cherry from the glass, you must instead
move
the "bottom" of the glass
half a match length to the left
.
The left half of the glass becomes the “stem” of the glass.
Lay the right half of the glass to the bottom left.
The cherry is already outside the glass!
(as) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen central editorial network.
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Correct: only the "floor" and the right match are laid - and you will come up with the right solution.
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By the way, you can find many more tricky brain teasers here on our puzzles page.
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