Today's puzzle

Hello everyone, here is a new week with new challenges coming. This is that I figured out for you for today... :-)

Oh, cried Mrs. Smith as she looked at her new carpet. “No more cocktail parties, for sure - damn it!…”
A lit cigarette was dropped by a guest the night before and it had completely burned away one of the white squares in the gray-and-white rug.

Help Mrs. Smith, please. Cut the rug apart and resew it into a rectangle keeping the checkerboard pattern with a white square in the upper left corner. You cannot cut it into more than two pieces.

How is it possible? Can you give an advice to the lady?

This is the original carpet with the smoky bit:

And this is the intended result:

If you do not want to edit my pictures, and send a picture in (some of you were mentioning that it was hard for them), then you can either

• write down how to cut it. (The only thing is that it should be clear how you mean it) or
• print my picture and write on it with a pen and make a photo with your phone, that is also good and simple.

To participate in the contest, please do the following:

1. Upvote the post.

2. Send your answer to me either as a private message on Discord (@ksolymosi#5065) or in an e-mail message ([email protected]). If you use Discord, please make sure that your Discord name is the same as your Steemit name, otherwise, it will be difficult for me to find you...

3. Comment on the post containing the puzzle mentioning where I should look for your answer (for example „Answer sent via Discord").

Important

Don't post your solution under the post containing the puzzle because then you ruin the game of others!

The answer should contain the identification number of the puzzle, too (for example DBG 11).

Answers should arrive until I post the results of the actual game (usually between 12.00 am and 8.00 pm UTC+1, but exceptions might occur...). This leaves approximately a 12-24 hour time window to send me your answers. (Answers arriving later will not be considered.)

It is possible to correct your answer by sending another solution, but only the last message will be considered for the reward. (So if you send the good answer first and then send another message with a wrong one, then, unfortunately, the wrong one will „participate" in the game.)

Please do not ask clarifying questions. I do my best to phrase instructions as clearly as possible. So everyone should work from the amount of information given in the post.

Detailed rules and information on the scoring and rewards can be found here and here.

Source of images:
Cover
Author: Julia Freeman-Woolpert (a member of freeimages.com)
Banner
Author: Lisa Kong (a member of freeimages.com)

All other images and pictures are made by me.