 Inspired by Loe, Martin Gardner wrote about the fold-and-cut problems in "Scientific American" in 1960.Examples mentioned by Gardner include separating the red squares from the black squares of a checkerboard with one cut, and "an old paper-cutting stunt, of unknown origin" in which one cut splits a piece of paper into both a Latin cross and a set of smaller pieces that can be rearranged to spell the word "hell".Foreshadowing work on the general fold-and-cut theorem, he writes that "more complicated designs present formidable problems".