UPDATE: BOOI Innovations Creative Problem Solving With Matchsticks

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About creativity

• [Creativity is the] ability to produce something new through imaginative skill, whether a new solution to a problem, a new method or device, or a new artistic object or form. The term generally refers to a richness of ideas and originality of thinking.

Adapted from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/creativity


“discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else

and thinking something different”

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 1893-1996Nobel prize winner

Physician


“nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one we

have”

Emile Chartier, 1868-1951French Philosopher


“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away”

Linus Pauling 1901-1994Two time Nobel prize winner

Theoretical chemist and biologist


“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it”

Albert Einstein 1879-1955Nobel prize winner

Physicist


Matchstick problem

• The following slides will show 20 solutions to this matchstick problem

• The only rule: Make a correct statement by moving only 1 match!

• This is an exercise from our Creativity & Innovation Awareness seminar

http://www.booi-innovations.com/Files/BOOI_Innovations_Creativity_Innovation_Awareness_Seminar_v01.pdf



STOP: First try yourself!

• It is always easier to take a quick peek on what others already have done

• Remember that innovation is a continuous process, not a one-time goal or a single destination

• The more you do it the better you get at it.• Do not worry about failing; if you fail that

means you are learning (FAIL is actually the acronym for: First Attempt In Learning)


More creative approachesMake a correct statement by moving only 1 match!

Solution 1: The negative number solution



Solution 2: The Roman number solution



Solution 3: The break-a-match solution (match needs to be broken!)



Solution 4: The second Roman number solution (match needs to be broken!)



Solution 5: The unequal solution



Solution 6: The 'bigger then' solution



Solution 7: The positive or same-symbol-has-different-meaning solution

ANDor

PLUS

POSITIVEor

BIGGER THAN ZERO


More creative approaches

Solution 8: The vector solution (match needs to be broken in 4 pieces!); Imagination required for the commas.

, , ,X YX Y X Y X 1

Y

1

-1

-1

Make a correct statement by moving only 1 match!

11( ) 1

2( )- = 0-1( )

11( ) 2

1( )- -10( )= Is also possible!



Solution 9: Decimal solution (match needs to be broken in 3 pieces!)


11 - 11,1 = - 0,1



Solution 10: The alphabet solution (match needs to be broken in 2 pieces!)


14 - 13 = 1

n = 14th letter of the alphabetm =13th letter of the alphabet



Solution 11: The binary / decimal solution (match needs to be broken 3 pieces!)

0 0 = 00 1 = 11 0 = 21 1 = 3

3 + 3 = 6



Solution 12: The binary / alphabet solution (match needs to be broken 2 pieces!)

0 0 = 00 1 = 11 0 = 21 1 = 3

3 + 3 = F

F is 6th letter of the alphabet



Solution 13: Correct for a binary based solution

This statement is false for Roman numericals and for the decimal, hexadecimal and octalsystems. However, for the binary system this 'unequal' statement is true!

3 ≠ 7 - 10 0 0 = 00 0 1 = 10 1 0 = 20 1 1 = 3

1 0 0 = 41 0 1 = 51 1 0 = 61 1 1 = 7



Solution 14: The superpose solution: Note that the match heads up means the opposite of match heads down!

Examples of this calculation method:0or

nothing



Solution 15: The second superpose solution: Note that the match heads up means the opposite of match heads down!

Examples of this calculation method:0or

nothing

0or

nothing



Solution 16: Another alphabet solution (match needs to be broken 3 pieces!)

2 + 2 = d

d= 4th letter of the alphabet



Solution 17: A multiplication solution (match needs to be broken 4 pieces!) Match head becomes multiplication point!

2 + 1 x 1 = 3



Solution 18: An other multiplication solution (match needs to be broken 4 pieces!) Match head becomes multiplication point!

1 + 1 x 2 = 3



Solution 19: A division solution (match needs to be broken 3 pieces!)

2 / 3 ≠ 1



Solution 20: A division solution (match needs to be broken 3 pieces!)

2 / 3 = Positive


Additional info• During our Creativity & Innovation Awareness seminar

most people can create 3 to 5 solutions. This because they are stuck in their own pattern thinking and adhere to assumptions and rules they impose upon themselves without any reason

• Creativity is all about eliminating your own pattern thinking and self-imposed restrictions. But it is also about realizing knowledge gaps you have as: “you do not know what you do not know!”

• There are even more solutions!



Additional info• If you really have been paying attention to the provided

solutions you probably have recognized that there is a systematic structure behind the created solutions.

• Have you been able to recognize it?

• Generating new, more & better ideas for your business development efforts requires the same systematic approach

• One of BOOI Innovations' services is to support you in this specific area of idea creation



Thank you & please share this material freely. If you would like to know more about our services feel

free to contact us. Ron [email protected]+358 (0)50 501 63 29

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