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You want to make each of the 5 Platonic solids and colour the faces so that, in every case, no two faces which meet along an edge have the same colour.

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In this problem you have to place four by four magic squares on the faces of a cube so that along each edge of the cube the numbers match.

Cubic Conundrum

Which of the following cubes can be made from these nets?

Presents

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level

You could always start the other way around - with the wrapped cube - and find different ways of cutting the paper off, remembering to keep the pieces covering each face as a square.
Can you try to visualise wrapping the present in different ways and then try to draw the shape of paper you needed?
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