Hacker News Reader

I'm thoroughly impressed by your geometric abilities! I didn't know that, and took me a while to check. Any hints on the puzzle, and as a sidequestion, what tools do you use to figure this kind of question? Just imagination, vector algebra, elementary trigonometry?

View on HN

Huh? There's nothing to be impressed about. You can stick a tetrahedron inside a cube so it creates the same square shadows in all three directions: https://i.stack.imgur.com/oAUnH.gif

I know a lot of math, but for this puzzle, drawing stuff on paper is enough. Here's a hint: if you cut off one corner of the cube, all shadows are still square. How much can you cut? Can you cut some corners strategically to make at least one new square shadow while keeping all the old ones? How many square shadows can you get?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com