Matchstick Puzzle 12

Further matchstick problems; perhaps the hardest of all.

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Take 5 matchsticks away so that only three squares remain.

Remove four matchsticks to leave four equilateral triangles.

Some lateral thinking needed to solve these two puzzles.

Making squares from 24 matchsticks.

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