Reasoning Matchstick Puzzle and Answer | Visual Puzzles

This Reasoning Matchstick Puzzle is different from other similar-looking matchstick puzzles. In this Matchstick Puzzle, you may have to think outside the box to make the given equation correct by just moving only one matchstick. Let's see if you can solve this tricky matchstick puzzle?

5+11=9.  Move Exactly One Matchstick to make this Equation Correct!
Can you solve this reasoning matchstick puzzle?

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3 comments:

Unknown said...

For the match stick puzzle that starts out as 5+11=9, there are three other answers possible by turning the equals sign into a is not equals to sign.


Rajesh Kumar said...

You are right. There are are two answers for this Matchstick Puzzle as mentioned in the post. However one should try solving Matchstick puzzles without using not equal to sign. We will try to include this condition in our future puzzle images.


Anonymous said...

Hi all
I would change the 11 to a 4 by moving the lower left match stick so it makes a number 4.
V/r Russ, 73