Follow Up: Prime Dice

January 9, 2008 · Follow Up, math puzzles, numbers · Permalink

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We also asked, on this week’s segment how to label the faces of some ordinary dice, with twelve different numbers (we did say different didn’t we?) so that every roll produces a prime number. This puzzle is from the fascinating site www.primepuzzles.net. Don’t peek!

4 Comments »

  1. Armando said,

    January 11, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    I found one possible solution: Show Spoiler ▼

  2. Jesse said,

    January 29, 2008 at 10:12 am

    Show Spoiler ▼

    should work. The first set are prime sextuplets I found
    here http://anthony.d.forbes.googlepages.com/ktmin.txt
    and the second set are the prime difference intervals.

  3. trivial34 said,

    March 23, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    I did a long search to find this solution which has only multiples of 6 on one die:
    Show Spoiler ▼

  4. edi15ta said,

    September 8, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    my solution involves some smaller numbers:
    (0;6;12;36;42;96) and (5,17,31,47,61,71)

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