Here's another headache inducing puzzle.

[sillymofo]

Try to connect four independent points to form three non intersecting triangles.

EDIT: four points meaning you can dot four dots on paper and try to connect them with lines.

 

[royaldank]

How many lines? Not sure what 'connect four points' means.

 

[sillymofo]

You can have as many lines as you want... but Six should do it. ... that's too much hint already.

 

[royaldank]

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That would produce three triangles not intersecting but sharing a side with the adjacent triangle.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

To connect 4 points, you can only HAVE six lines. Unless they're curved 🙂

 

[sillymofo]

Originally posted by: royaldank
- |x - That would produce three triangles not intersecting but sharing a side with the adjacent triangle.

buuuuuzzzzzzzzz. May be I should limit to six lines.

 

[Chaotic42]

Would this work?

 

[new2AMD]

werx 4 me

 

[royaldank]

I think I understand the problem now.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Would this work?

That's actually 4 triangles.

 

[sillymofo]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: Chaotic42 Would this work?

That's actually 4 triangles.

bingo. Actually I was waiting to see if ATOT is smarter than that, some one actually see the fourth triangle.

 

[DrPizza]

I did it with 5 lines.
So there.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: Chaotic42 Would this work?

That's actually 4 triangles.

bingo. Actually I was waiting to see if ATOT is smarter than that, some one actually see the fourth triangle.

Wouldn't the middle triangles intersect the big one?

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
To connect 4 points, you can only HAVE six lines. Unless they're curved 🙂

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: royaldank
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That would produce three triangles not intersecting but sharing a side with the adjacent triangle.

thats what I came up with.

 

[DrPizza]

I cannot get this to work with 6 lines though.... I've been able to come up with 4 discrete non-intersecting triangles many different ways (including going into 3 dimensions) And, I've been able to get 6 discrete non-intersecting triangles. But, not 3... except when I used 5 lines.

 

[sillymofo]

Like dabuddha said, there are four triangles. I messed up in the original question and said three, it should have been four non intersecting triangles. Don't think of this puzzle from a two dimensional perspective, rather 3 dimensional, and you'll have the answer.

 

[DrPizza]

Grrr.... I wasted all that time trying to get 3 with 6 lines (I proved it's impossible), and you mean to tell me you meant FOUR triangles?!?! Grrr