165.--THE SEVEN PIGS.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

The illustration shows the direction for placing the three fences so as to enclose every pig in a separate sty. The greatest number of spaces that can be enclosed with three straight lines in a square is seven, as shown in the last puzzle. Bearing this fact in mind, the puzzle must be solved by trial.

[Illustration: THE SEVEN PIGS.]

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