Brain exercise today: Can you build this box?

The box pic­tured here has been fold­ed togeth­er from one of the four choic­es giv­en. Which one?

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Answer: C and D

 

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64 Comments

  1. Linda on February 22, 2008 at 6:31

    C & D



  2. Linda on February 22, 2008 at 6:32

    Thanks, mack­kk. It is only D.



  3. Aaron on March 23, 2008 at 10:31

    It’s D, not too hard :)



  4. Anna on April 11, 2008 at 6:40

    it’s D, this one was­n’t hard



  5. Mukesh on June 5, 2008 at 4:03

    it is C only the cor­rect one



  6. Travis on June 8, 2008 at 8:23

    I don’t see how “C” is cor­rect, and lack­ing Pho­to­shop and a print­er, I don’t have any way of ver­i­fy­ing this. Can some­one explain the folds required to make the block?



  7. Abel.... IQ of 135 on June 21, 2008 at 5:48

    i only see D real­ly clear­ly.. but i haven’t tried to vizual­ize C… C has a 60% chance of being cor­rect as well.. from my view. D has a 100 % chance. — ABel was here.



  8. Cal on July 3, 2008 at 7:02

    C and D are correct.
    You have to rotate C in three dimen­sions for it to fit but it does ;)



  9. Theofanis on July 4, 2008 at 4:21

    It’d (D) because when you build the box to be exact­ly like the orig­i­nal you ‘ll turn it 180 degrees and then, above the cir­cle you will see the white hedra and not the black n white that is near the two lines



  10. anthonette on August 5, 2008 at 8:55

    C and D
    =)



  11. Ishan on August 9, 2008 at 7:28

    C & D



  12. Ryan on August 13, 2008 at 6:30

    D only if you’re not sup­posed to flip it, both C and D if you’re allowed to flip it.



  13. Tarrence on September 7, 2008 at 1:31

    D. C does­nt work­lk because the tri­an­gle would be on the side, not the top.…



  14. Behrooz on September 14, 2008 at 10:29

    It’s D. Can’t be C, just look at the par­al­lel lines. They aren’t 90^ to the circle.



  15. Kaitlin on October 8, 2008 at 1:43

    The answer is D
    C can­not work because of the way it was cut out. if you were to try to build the box with the way C is cut, you would not get a cube.



  16. emina on November 3, 2008 at 12:42

    I’m pret­ty sure that C and D are both applicable.☺



  17. Craig on November 3, 2008 at 11:39

    all of the shapes there can be fold­ed into cubes… it is a state­ment “The box pic­tured here has been fold­ed togeth­er from one of the four choic­es giv­en. Which one?” A mis­lead­ing ques­tion for sure… since C and D can both work for this.



  18. Alex on November 6, 2008 at 9:46

    It cant be “C” b/c when you try to make a square out of it you will get a dupli­cate side and one side will be left open. The only one that makes a square that fits the shapes is “D”



  19. Eric on November 10, 2008 at 8:21

    I believe that part of this exer­cise was the mis­lead­ing nature of the ques­tion. One is chal­lenged to look beyond the bounds of the ques­tion. I put much more effort into visu­al­iz­ing and manip­u­lat­ing the two shapes because they both seemed to ‑and do- work.



  20. Tyler on November 10, 2008 at 8:39

    Thanks for the test!



  21. deepa on November 13, 2008 at 2:23

    D



  22. zeynep evin on November 19, 2008 at 12:50

    the answer is definit­ly d



  23. allstar on December 24, 2008 at 6:45

    c but also d?



  24. D. on January 30, 2009 at 1:23

    Pat­terns on C and D seems to be cor­rect. How­ev­er, sizes of every face of the box on the options giv­en here doen­s’t seem to match the actu­al pro­por­tions shown on the box we have as an example.
    As well as John, my doubt is if this is supossed to be a square.
    Unless the def­i­n­i­tion of my mon­i­tor is wrong, I can’t see any of this options is cor­rect. We can fold box­es, but not exact­ly the same as the expam­ple that was given.
    Can some­one reply which is the cor­rect one?



  25. aimee on January 30, 2009 at 2:38

    C and D are cor­rect but the image is stretched. If you open the image in anoth­er brows­er win­dow it will appear cor­rect­ly, as a cube. That is the con­fus­ing part.



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