🔥 How to solve matchstick puzzles - a visual thinking guide
In a matchstick puzzle, the difference between a wrong equation and a right one can be a single stick. It helps to split the job into two questions: which digit can change, and which change also makes the math correct?
First, read the action
Removing lowers the number of matches; moving takes a match from a filled place to an empty one and keeps the total the same. In this game the math signs never change, and each puzzle tells you exactly how many moves or removals to make.
Spot digits that are close
On a seven-segment display, for example, an 8 becomes a 9 when you remove the bottom-left segment. But a possible change is not yet a solution: the whole equation has to be true. In the game you can pick each of the three digits and check its segments one by one.
Plan the source and the target
In a move puzzle, ask what happens to the digit that loses the match and to the digit that gets it. In puzzles with two or three actions, an in-between state does not have to look like a digit; only the final equation must be right. A hint shows a numbered source and target.
Questions and answers
Can I move the plus or equals sign?
Not in this game. Moves apply only to the segments of the digits, so the rules stay the same and every solution can be checked clearly.
What if I run out of moves?
Undo a move or restart the level. The number of moves and hints affects your stars, but you can always keep trying.