Okay, you've figured out how to display all of the days of the month using two cubes in "Calendar Cubes". Now here's your next challenge:

Spell the months of the year with a letter on each face of three cubes. Use lowercase three-letter English abbreviations for the names of all twelve months (e.g., "jan", "feb", "mar").

No letter is used twice in all 12 abbreviations, and adding up how many times a letter is used you come up with
A=5, B=1, C=2, D=1, E=3, F=1, G=1, J=3, L=1, M=2, N=3, O=1, P=2, R=2, S=1, T=1, U=3, V=1, Y=1. that leaves 19 spaces needed. If you use lower case letters you can use the lower case d as needed for DEC, as the lower case p for APR & SEP as the d is not needed for either one, nor p for DEC. :)

Posted by Joni on 2002-09-13 21:57:52