[Illustration: Fig. 11]
It will be seen that every one of these puzzles has its reverse
puzzle--to cut a square into pieces to form a Greek cross. But as a
square has not so many angles as the cross, it is not always equally
easy to discover the true directions of the cuts. Yet in the case of the
examples given, I will leave the reader to determine their direction for
himself, as they are rather obvious from the diagrams.
Cut a square into five pieces that will form two separate Greek crosses
of _different sizes_. This is quite an easy puzzle. As will be seen in
Fig. 12, we have only to divide our square into 25 little squares and
then cut as shown. The cross A is cut out entire, and the pieces B, C,
D, and E form the larger cross in Fig. 13. The reader may here like to
cut the single piece, B, into four pieces all similar in shape to
itself, and form a cross with them in the manner shown in Fig. 13. I
hardly need give the solution.
[Illustration: FIG. 12.]
[Illustration: FIG. 13.]
Cut a square into five pieces that will form two separate Greek crosses
of exactly the _same size_. This is more difficult. We make the cuts as
in Fig. 14, where the cross A comes out entire and the other four pieces
form the cross in Fig. 15. The direction of the cuts is pretty obvious.
It will be seen that the sides of the square in Fig. 14 are marked off
into six equal parts. The sides of the cross are found by ruling lines
from certain of these points to others.
[Illustration: FIG. 14.]
[Illustration: FIG. 15.]
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