Little riddle: if you have two dice (so each has 6 sides), with 1 digit on each side and you want to be able to form all numbers between 1 and 31 (for the days of the month), what digits would be on each dice? E.g. if dice #1 has 0-1-2-3-4-5 and the second 4-5-6-7-8-9, it won’t work, because you cannot form the number ‘22′.
Try to guess and I’ll give the answer next week. There’s a little trick involved! I first tried to figure it out without looking at the dice, and I enjoyed the mind gymnastics.
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Got it ! But I won’t tell, otherwise I will spoil it for others :-/
Not that hard, is it?
out of my head!
(for the non-Dutch speakers… I meant: “done it without looking at dice and without writing anything down”)
Not that hard, but indeed fun to play with. Thanks
Hmm, one question though: is it allowed to leave dice out from time to time? Because I could have a problem in the first 10 days
@Clopin: I struggled with that too, but the riddle says “1 to 31″, so I assumed it was okay to represent the first 9 days using 1 dice.
@Clopin and @Inferis:
No, you need to have two dice, otherwise it wouldn’t be much fun…
So: you need to have “0″ on one or both dices.
Oh, and may I point out that the digits are Arabic, and not represented by numbers of dots?
sorry 123456 and 789120
@Jan
That would be the Clopin-Inferis way of doing it.
You can’t form “07″, “08″ and “09″ with your solution.
It’s still not that hard then.
Hint: you will need two 0s, two 1s and two 2s.
The 9 is there all along its just hidding.
*spoiler warning*
I think I got it right. (:
Dice A: zero-one-two-three-seven-eight
Dice B: zero-one-two-four-five-six
The six can be used as a nine as well.
With the 123456 and 789120 solution, the 1 in either die can be used as a “dash” so that two die could still be used to represent the first 9 days. That is: -1, -2, -3, etc.