Step-by-step tutorial
Step 1
Gather your materials.
Step 2
Cut the printable along the dotted lines.
Step 3
Rearrange the pieces of the chocolate bar leaving the smallest piece out. Now you have a piece of chocolate you can eat, and the whole bar leftover!
Tip
If you’re having a hard time figuring out the trick to this puzzle, flip the printable over to see the answer, or keep reading!
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Well, you don’t really have a whole bar left over. If you tape around the original chocolate bar and then rearrange the pieces again so that the smallest piece of chocolate is left out, you’ll see that the two “whole bars” aren’t the same size at all! The final bar is a tiny bit smaller than the original one.
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The trick to this chocolate bar isn’t magic at all — it’s geometry! The piece of chocolate you removed takes up the same amount of space as the gap in the final chocolate bar, it’s just arranged differently. Instead of being a long and skinny rectangle, it’s a short and wide rectangle. The short and wide rectangle is a lot easier to notice than the long and skinny gap where it used to go, which is why the final bar looks so similar to the original bar. If you really want to, you can cut up the short and wide piece to see that it fits exactly in the final bar’s sliver of missing chocolate.