Domino - Puzzles


1) Contents

This is the 7th issue of DOMINO PUZZLES.

2) Dominosa

This issue contains 1 new dominosa, and hopefully the first one in an alphabet series. In a dominosa, you have the layout of a full double 6 domino set. The only thing you have to figure out are the borders between the tiles.

1 3 3 1 1 5 0
2 2 1 0 3 3 4 2
0 4 4 3 3
4 4 2 3 6
2 0 6
2 1 5
6 6 3 4 4
1 0 6 0 5
2 0 5 6 0 5 1 5
6 1 5 2 5 4 6

3) Classic puzzle - magic square 1

Around the turn of the 19th/20th century, Sam Loydd was the most famous puzzler in the USA, but in his entire cylopedia i discovered only one domino puzzle, more about that in another issue. Henry Dudeney lived in roughly the same period, and included a separate chapter on domino puzzles in his Amusements in mathematics. And even outside this chapter i found a puzzle on dominoes.
In the table below the som of the dots on the first row is 13. Complete the other 5 rows with the tiles from a double 6 pack in such a way that the sum of all rows, columns and the two diagonals is 13.

4) Classic puzzle - magic square 2

Henry Ernest Dudeney gives the solution the problem above in his book as an example. His real challenge was: make a square of 6x6 such that the sum of all rows, columns and the two main diagonals is 18. En passant he natoes that 23 is also possible.

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