Arrange fourteen matches as in Fig. 22, and tell your friends to take
away any three matches they may select without disturbing the others,
and replace one in any position they may choose in such a way as to show
what matches are made of. They will endeavour to form the word "wood";
but Fig. 23 gives the correct solution.
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Fig. 22.
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Fig. 23.