Nine animals are arranged in three rows of three:
Draw three squares to contain and separate them.
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What if there were four rows of four animals?
How many squares would it take to separate them all?
Put these animals into four rectangular pens so that there
is an odd number of animals in each pen.
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Here is the URL which will take them to another puzzle requiring a good spacial awareness.