Corner of a die (Posted on 2002-10-26)

You are looking through a small hole at a corner of a standard six-sided playing die, as shown above. (The picture is showing that there are spots in the corners that you see. It does not imply absence of any other spots.)

Determine at least one of the faces of the die that you are seeing.

	Submitted by levik
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Standard playing dice have faces arranged in a way that opposite face values always add up to 7. The picture shows the three partly visible faces that have a dot in the corner. The only face to not have a dot in the corner is 1, which means that 1 is definitely not one of the visible faces. However this means that the face opposite 1 has to be one of the three. That face is 6.

	Subject	Author	Date
	Solution	Dej Mar	2008-09-07 13:31:10
	re: how do you get the images in the problem	jduval	2007-08-04 08:34:35
	how do you get the images in the problem	Isi Poeira	2005-05-16 21:53:06
	re: go look at a die and you'll see too	David	2004-06-25 03:14:18
	solution	Jonathan Waltz	2003-03-31 08:59:32
	dots	Bedhed	2003-01-09 12:57:08
	pair ah dice	Jim Waldie	2002-10-27 14:24:54
	go look at a die and you'll see too	James	2002-10-26 15:21:18
	opposite sides	small foot	2002-10-26 08:44:08
	1 Dot	lucky	2002-10-26 06:25:06