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How is it possible to predict the card?

Card Trick 2

Can you explain how this card trick works?

Painting Cubes

Imagine you have six different colours of paint. You paint a cube using a different colour for each of the six faces. How many different cubes can be painted using the same set of six colours?

Cube Paths

Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level

The diagram shows a skeletal view of a 2 by 2 by 2 cube with one route 'down' the cube.

How many routes are there on the surface of the cube from A to B?
(No `backtracking' allowed, i.e. each move must be away from A towards B.)

Cube Paths diagram
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