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The Most Simple Stick Knot
Six is the fewest number of straws that you can arrange in a knot s. There's no way i can untangle this back out into a loop. But yet, you don't have to bend the straws to make the knot in the first place. So six is the smallest stick number. Got to try and describe it. It looks like two coat hangers copulating. Or it's sort of like a very straight edged version of the boy scout, girl, guy. Trefoil. Whichis it is a trefoil. Oh, so full marks to arny. The only knot you can get with six if you had seven sticks at your disposal. If
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