A number of people want X 11 11 1 - this does not equal 1221: MCCXXI does!

However VII\III will work : (trinary system) where 1 (27) 2(2x9) 2(2X3) 1 = 52\ten!
he only has 7 matches you can't do MCCXXI with 7 matches and not break or bend tham
11X111 is 1221
 
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Good morning Riddle Masters! :)

I’ve got your third and final riddle of the week courtesy of member Suzi H. Thank you so much Suzi for sending this one!

Magician Mephisto Mountebank has devised an ingenious way of arranging seven matches so that they equal the number 1221. “ I neither bend them nor break them,” he says proudly. How is it done?

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111 x11 = 1221
 
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