You need to move only 2 matches to show the time – half past five: a difficult IQ test

Move the matches so that the clock shows half past five / UNIAN collage

Puzzles with matches, which many remember from childhood, are again at the peak of popularity. And it is not surprising, because it is a quick and interesting way to distract yourself from the daily hustle and bustle, and also to test your abilities.

Such tasks are a short, but sometimes necessary reboot for the mind. It’s also a great brain exerciser, because puzzles teach us to look at things from a different angle. UNIAN has prepared a new interesting challenge for you.

This task will test your logical thinking. Below you will see a collage where three identical squares are laid out with matches. A total of 12 matches were used.

You need to rearrange two of them in such a way as to form a specific time – half a fifth. It will be very difficult to do this.

Ready to test yourself? Then we start.

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How are your progress? Were you able to find this arrangement of matches to get the answer? If you managed, you can be proud of yourself. This task was really difficult.

Don’t get upset if a solution doesn’t come to mind right away. Try to look at the shapes not as ordinary squares, but as a constructor. Think about what matches you could put elsewhere to buy time.

By the way, this is where the trick lies. After all, the time can be displayed both on the dial and in numbers. However, when only two matches can be moved, it is obvious that only the latter option is possible.

So how should matches be placed? Take the top match in the first square and rearrange it under the right match – you will get the number 4.

Next, we move to the second square. In it, you need to rearrange the left match so that it forms the number 3.

As a result, you will get the numbers 4, 3 and 0 – that’s the answer.

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More calls from UNIANTest your skills in another match puzzle, but this time it’s a mathematical one. You will need to correct the equation by moving only two matches.

Or you can try to find the word “Poltava” in the image. You need to cope with this task quickly, because we took only 12 seconds for the answer.

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