Illuminations: Heart Construction

How do I love thee? Let me build the ways!

Make a heart using any of the shapes in the PDF file. You can change their size, but you cannot change their shape. And you can use a shape more than once.

Can you make a heart with just three shapes? What about five? Six? Ten? How many different hearts can you make?

This brainteaser was written by Patrick Vennebush.

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Illuminations: Heart Construction

How do I love thee? Let me build the ways!

Make a heart using any of the shapes in the PDF file. You can change their size, but you cannot change their shape. And you can use a shape more than once.

Can you make a heart with just three shapes? What about five? Six? Ten? How many different hearts can you make?

This brainteaser was written by Patrick Vennebush.

VIEW SOLUTION