Follow Up: Prime Dice

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: (1, 3, 13, 27, 43, and 57); (4, 10, 16, 40, 70, and 136).

  2. Jesse said,

    January 29, 2008 at 10:12 am

    (7 97 16057 19417 43777 1091257)
    and (0 4 6 10 12 16)

    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:
    {6,66,1746,2676,5406,21156}
    {1,7,13,31,37,65}

  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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