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I came across a fairly interesting problem today (and it just so happens to work best with a picture! Which makes my superblog for the week! :D).

It's called the Candle Problem, and it is supposedly quite famous, but I haven't heard of it, so maybe I've been living under a rock.... or just not studied psychology/creativity enough.

Here's the problem.

You are given a box of "tacks" (thumbpins, or pins, I supposed we'd call them), a candle, and a book of matches. The table is pushed into the corner of a room.Your task is the affix the lit candle onto the wall in such a way that it does not drip wax onto the table. Using the resources provided, how do you go about doing this?