Make a two by two grid with six toothpicks, and then place the other two toothpicks at a 45 degree angle on the corner of two of the squares.
You can arrange them to make a cube.12 edges, 6 faces.
Take two toothpicks that create an outside corner. Cross them like a + inside one of the remaining boxes. Count the new four smaller boxes inside it as 4, the one they are formed in as 5, and the two untouched boxes as 6 and 7. (The trick is to remember to count the larger box the 4 are formed in.)
A net with six squares can make a cube, if drawn correctly.
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7 squares is forty nine so you remove two toothpicks to make the digits 49
You make 3-D! Look... 6 squares in one cube and you can do that with toothpicks too!
A square has 4 sides therefore 3 squares from 12 toothpicks will simply be three unconnected squares
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Old one. Make a square out of four squares, then remove two adjacent inside toothpicks. This leaves a large square with a small square inside.
Make a two by two grid with six toothpicks, and then place the other two toothpicks at a 45 degree angle on the corner of two of the squares.
make a circle
bend 2 toothpicks at 90 degree angles and put them cornor to cornor
You arrange 12 toothpicks into a large square, subdivided into four squares : 2 toothpicks on each side and four more, one each from the middle of the sides to the center of the large square. Now you have four (small) squares. Take away 2 adjacent toothpicks from the ones in the center, and you have 2 squares : one remaining small one and the large one that has the small one inside it. (see related link)
assuming by boxes you mean squares in two dimensions its easy. Make the five boxes all next to each other so they share sides then remove two toothpicks here the top and bottom of a middle box and you are left with 4.
make three squares and overlap them so that two of them meet in the center of the third square, making four smaller squares in the center
You can arrange them to make a cube.12 edges, 6 faces.