Can you solve it? The pyramid puzzle
by Alex Bellos from Science | The Guardian on (#566N0)
Two geometrical riddles
UPDATE: Read the solutions here
It is a truism to say that once you know the answer to a puzzle it becomes trivially easy. Yet this statement is especially true when it comes to geometrical problems, which are often solved with a single insight that, once you know it, seems so forehead-slappingly obvious.
Both of today's two puzzles are unravelled with a joyous aha'. I hope you find them for yourselves.
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