Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/196 - Les Quadrilles/Solution
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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $196$
- Les Quadrilles
- 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?
Solution
- Here is one solution:
Historical Note
Domino problems of this type, called quadrilles, date back some way.
Édouard Lucas discussed them in his Récréations mathématiques of $1894$.
More recently, they appeared in an issue of Recreational Mathematics Magazine of $1964$.
Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Solutions: $196$. -- Les Quadrilles
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Answers: $485$. Les Quadrilles