Puzzles

I saw another Facebook “squares” puzzle this morning. Here is the blank image: Here are the squares that I count: I see the first eight in the image above. …nine.. …ten… …eleven… …twelve… …thirteen… …fourteen… …fifteen… …sixteen… …seventeen… …and the entire puzzle is one big square. That makes eighteen.

Originally Published on August 2, 2012 A number of my Facebook friends have been posting a puzzle based on the image below. How many squares can you count in the above image. I count 40. I’ve included several sequences of the puzzle with squares colored in red and yellow to illustrate the ones I see. First, let’s just count the basic squares across and down. That gives us 16. Next, let’s count the little interior squares.