Sperner's lemma (in dimension 2 to keep it visual). The proof in Francis Su's Monthly paper, Rental harmony: Sperner's lemma in fair division is especially easy to visualize. Theris a non-empty content, you can have students ponder the role of the hypotheses. And fair division applications allow to motivate it via concrete applications.
Thierry Zell
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