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Now, separate eight matches from the pile.
That's the number we'll use.
I bet you move your lips when you read.
All you do now is lay the matches in such a way that you can pick up seven matches with one match.
It is when you know how.
You're on your own, Rhoda.
Well, you're going to pick up seven matches with one match, build up some sort of a thingamajig out of seven, and place it on one match.
Alan is thinking in the right direction, Rhoda.
Rhoda, your hand was as steady as a tightrope in a high wind.
Well, I'll run along while you both struggle.
Ask me for the answer when I come back.
Are you... Are you still at it?
Why, I've never been known to play tricks on anyone.
Now, look closely.
It's child's plays.
Alan and I just aren't children.
Oh, I'm not so sure about you.
Well, your idea, Alan, of building on one match, which I lay there on the table flat like that, was correct.
Then lay one match across, extending well to the right.
Then one across, extending to the left.