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Show LITTLE DISSECTION PUZZLE Trick Is to Cut Piece of Cardboard Into Four Pieces of Precisely Same Shape and Size. Cut out a piece of paper or cardboard card-board of the shape shown in the illustration. illus-tration. It will be seen at once that the proportions are simply those of a square attached to half another siml- Dissection Puzzle. lar square, divided diagonally. The puzzle Is to cut it Into four pieces all of precisely the same size and shape. The solution to this puzzle is shown in the second illustration. Di- i f l X: y Solution of Puzzle. vide the figure up Into twelve equal triangles, and It Is easy to discover the directions of the cuts as indicated by the dark lines. |