The Eleven Holes Puzzle
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The document describes the Eleven Holes Puzzle, which involves arranging 59 puzzle pieces within a rectangle to create up to 11 holes without removing any pieces. The puzzle was created based on Curry's Paradox and Fibonacci numbers to manipulate the sizes and positions of triangle pieces so that their edges would slightly overlap or gap along the diagonal, creating just enough extra space for holes. Through ingenious manipulations, the puzzle achieves 11 holes while keeping the visual differences very small and using only two shapes for the remaining 54 pieces.
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![The Eleven Holes Puzzle<br />9 December, 2009Tofique Fatehi tofiquef@yahoo.comhttp://tofique.fatehi.us<br />Introduction<br />The Eleven Holes Puzzle is a neat jig-saw like puzzle with surprises in store. It has virtually nothing of mathematics in it, and yet, a lot of mathematics has gone into it in the making. Even if you are not mathematically-oriented, you can still enjoy the puzzle for its own sake, and if it stirs up your curiosity enough, you can go into some elementary concepts and learn them in a fun sort of a way. For those who are in for recreational mathematics in a more serious way, this can be a store house of inter-related ideas - beyond the elementary stage. In short, there is something for everybody.<br />Let the Fun Begin<br />Open figure 1 of the diagram file. It shows a rectangle (50 X 31 in size). The rectangle has been dissected into 59 pieces which fit completely inside the rectangle. If you wish, you may take a printout of this figure and neatly cut out the 59 pieces. Use a thick, stiff paper or some thin cardboard. Preferably, have one face of the paper/ cardboard coloured with a different colour to distinguish the top and bottom sides of the pieces. Have a separate “board” of 50x 31 size to play on. Draw a diagonal across this board. Now arrange the pieces on the board as in figure 1.<br />Next, rearrange the pieces on the board as shown in figure 2. The 59 pieces still cover the entire board, but leaves one square “hole”. Where did the extra area for the “hole” come from?<br />Rearrange the pieces as shown in figure 3, and two holes appear. Go on to figure 4 and 5 and 6 ---and on till the last figure. Each successive figure has one more hole than the previous, till finally there are eleven holes. And note that all the 59 pieces are on the board in all of these figures. No piece has been removed to create a hole. How is that possible?<br />Let the Mathematics Begin<br />This puzzle has been “manipulated” by me based on Curry's Paradox. I need not go into a full-fledged explanation on why or how this works, as this has already been done and is available on a number of internet sites. A good place to begin is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle See also the related links towards the end of the above link page.<br />Let My “Manipulations” Begin<br />In creating this puzzle, I have used the Curry's Paradox over and over and over again. With some ingenious manipulations!<br />,[object Object]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/theelevenholespuzzle-100204191233-phpapp01/85/The-Eleven-Holes-Puzzle-1-320.jpg)
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