Comments on Puzzle #7877: Ancient rule
By Al LaPointe (kancamagus)
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solvability: line & color logic only
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: line & color logic only
Puzzle Description:
Illustration of the Pythagorean Theorem. The area of the blue square is equal to the sum of the areas of the green and red square. http://math.about.com/od/pythagorean/ss/pythag.htm
#1: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Feb 20, 2010
Interesting puzzle.#2: wendy herndon (wendyherndon) on Feb 22, 2010
Good job!#3: Teresa K (fasstar) on Feb 27, 2010
Nice clean image, and fun to solve.#4: Tonia Bergh (tonia) on Jul 9, 2016
Love geometry! Great puzzle.#5: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on Sep 22, 2022 [HINT] [SPOILER]
Nice job putting this at an angle -- it would've been too straightforward maybe if the red and green were straight squares, and it doesn't take too long this way. A fundamental, interesting theorem (I remember finding lots of Pythagorean triples in high school with some odd numbers) with relatively fundamental techniques to solve it. So I enjoyed this a lot.
I like how you can get a really good start with either of the 3 colors too.
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