Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/196 - Les Quadrilles

Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $196$

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This old French puzzle will, I think, be found very interesting.

It is required to arrange a complete set of $28$ dominoes so as to form the figure shown in the diagram,

with all the numbers forming a series of squares.

Thus, in the upper two rows we have a square of blanks, and a square of four $3$'s, and a square of $4$'s, and a square of $1$'s and so on.

This is, in fact, a perfect solution under the conditions usually imposed,

but what I now ask for is an arrangement with no blanks anywhere on the outer edge.

At present every number from blank to $6$ inclusive will be found somewhere on the margin.

Can you construct an arrangement with all the blanks inside?

Sources

• 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Problems Concerning Games: $196$. -- Les Quadrilles
• 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Domino Puzzles: $485$. Les Quadrilles