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August 2007 riddle

This month's riddle was related to me by Guy Bensky.

Let S be a set consisting of a finite number of points on the plane that satisfies the following criterion: any straight line that passes through more than one point of S, passes through at least 3 points of S.

Prove that all points in S are arranged on a straight line.

List of solvers:

Oded Margalit (1 August 23:00)

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The solution will be published at the end of the month.

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