A corporate businessman has two cubes on his office desk. Every day he arranges both cubes so that the front faces show the current day of the month.
Note: You can't represent the day "7" with a single cube with a side that says 7 on it. You have to use both cubes all the time. So the 7th day would be "07".
Solution:
Cube One has the following numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Cube two has the following numbers: 0, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8
The 6 doubles as a 9 when turned the other way around.
There is no day 00, but you still need the 0 on both cubes in order to make all the numbers between 01 and 09.
Alternate solutions are also possible e.g.
Cube One: 1, 2, 4, 0, 5, 6
Cube Two: 3, 1, 2, 7, 8, 0
Comments (5)
Hi,
In the Question named "The Cubes" Why do you need number 2 on second dice as we can have all the months displayed without using that. Instead we can have 9 at the second dice so that we do not have to turn the number 6 to display nine.
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Saurabh Jain
Why do you need number 2 on the second die as we can have all the months displayed without using that? Instead, we can have 9 on the second die so that we do not have to turn the number 6 to display nine.
In the question named 'The Cubes', why do you need number 2 on the second dice? We can have all the months displayed without using that. Instead, we can have 9 at the second dice.
I have an alternative solution for the puzzle. Cube1:0,1,2,3,5,7 and Cube2:0,1,2,4,9,8.
vi que la respuesta es más sencilla de lo que parece, la respuesta es 4 y solo hay que contar los puntos de las esquinas para los dados que tienen un punto al centro
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