Greetings,  ,
 
Thank you for participating in the "Mental Gymnastics" challenge in this month's WarehouseTWO e-Newsletter.  Here are the results...
 
The Set-Up
Twelve toothpicks are arranged to create a "tic-tac-toe" board, as shown in the illustration to the right.
The Challenge
Re-arrange three, and only three, toothpicks to create three equal-sized squares, using all twelve toothpicks.
The Correct Answer

See the illustration to the right.

Because the original layout of the tootpicks has two perpendicular lines of symmetry (horizontal and vertical, both passing through the center of the center square), there are actually four solutions to the challenge, seen by rotating this image 90, 180 and 270 degrees.

The Winners
 
Winners of this month's challenge are:

 

Chad Downs , Wilson Company (Addison, TX USA) (first correct responder)
Eddie Metcalf , Western Integrated Technologies, Inc.  (Kent, WA USA)*
Erik Rdomsky , Mitten Fluidpower, Inc. Syracuse, NY USA)*

*Chosen at random from all correct responders  

 

The first correct reponse was received eight (8) minutes after this month's e-Newsletter was sent out.



Thank you again for participating in this month's "Mental Gymnastics" challenge.  Look for another challenge in next month's WarehouseTWO e-Newsletter.
 
As always, if you have a good WarehouseTWO "success story", we would love to hear about it.
 
Sincerely,
 
Mark Tomalonis
WarehouseTWO, LLC
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