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Square Deal

From Catriona Agg’s endlessly rewarding Twitter feed:

https://x.com/Cshearer41/status/1761786951424671868

The three smaller squares are the same size. What’s the angle? (The outermost shape too is a square.)

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At first it seems we have too little information, but it turns out the angle is invariant with the size of the larger square — grab point H and drag it left and right:

(GeoGebra resource by John Golden.)

October 17, 2025 | Puzzles

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