If:

+-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+      
|O     O| |0      | |0     0| |0      | |0      | |0     0|       
|   0   | |       | |0     0| |   0   | |       | |0     0|  =  5 
|0     0| |      0| |0     0| |      0| |      0| |0     0|       
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
|       | |       | |0     0| |0      | |       | |0     0|
|   0   | |   0   | |   0   | |       | |   0   | |       |  =  9 
|       | |       | |0     0| |     0 | |       | |0     0|
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
|0      | |0      | |0     0| |0     0| |0      | |0     0|
|   0   | |       | |   0   | |   0   | |   0   | |   0   |  = 11 
|      0| |      0| |0     0| |0     0| |      0| |0     0|
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
|0      | |0      | |0      | |0      | |0      | |0      |
|       | |   0   | |       | |   0   | |       | |   0   |  = 16
|      0| |      0| |      0| |      0| |      0| |      0|
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+

What is:

+-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
|       | |0      | |0      | |0     0| |0     0| |0     0|
|   0   | |       | |   0   | |       | |   0   | |0     0|  =  ?  
|       | |      0| |      0| |0     0| |0     0| |0     0|
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+

The answer is 0.

Explanation:  In line one, there are two number not showing among the dice: 1 and 4.  This adds up to 5.  In line two, there are two numbers not showing: 3 and 6.  These add to 9.  Line 3 has 1, 4, 6 missing which equals 11.  In line 4, 1, 4, 5, 6 are missing.  Theses add up to 16.  So in the last line no numbers are missing so the answer is 0.

Posted by Morgan on 2005-12-07 17:37:38