Toothpicks: 6 Make 4 Triangles

How can you glue 6 toothpicks together to make exactly 4 triangles?


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You have to think “outside the plane” on this one. Use 4 little marshmallows as the vertices of a regular tetrahedron, and use the 6 toothpicks as the edges. The tetrahedron has 4 faces, each of which is an equilateral triangle. Voila!

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