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As a start (and possibly as an equivalent proof?) you can mentally brute force it by cutting the board down to 4x4 and just visualising how the blocks might fit
by mfgs 5y ago
As a start (and possibly as an equivalent proof?) you can mentally brute force it by cutting the board down to 4x4 and just visualising how the blocks might fit. It quickly becomes obvious that it's not possible.
- aqme28 5y agoWith so many of these "math puzzles," you can usually solve it by cutting it down to a trivial size and scaling it up.