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A Go master once gave me a small puzzle on 4×4 grid of intersections.

He placed an empty board in front of me and said:

You may place exactly 7 black stones on the board. Your goal is to create exactly 6 straight lines, with exactly 3 stones on each line. The stones must be placed only on the intersections of the ...

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Part 1 — Ten coins in five lines of four

From Enigma — the big book of brain-teasers and games of logic (2008), Fabrice Mazza, Sylvain Lhullier, p. 90:

Arrange these ten coins into five lines, each made up of four coins.

Too easy, huh?

Part 2 — Ten...

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.... but where? The answer consists of six letters.


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This puzzle is an original. I have a solution to all parts but there may be better, more elegant, solutions out there and I know from past puzzles that some really, really good lateral-thinkers come to this site, so... Enjoy!

Here is a diagram of three circles. There are six points of intersection and each circle has four such points on its circumference:

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