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.
Dudeney-Modern-Puzzles-196.png
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:
Dudeney-Modern-Puzzles-196-solution.png

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 $1964$.


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