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To submit your solutions you?ll need to have a way of recording how the pieces fit together. The seven pieces are numbered and coloured. You can fill in a table showing your solution and colour a sketch cube correspondingly. Click here to rotate the pieces.

1. cube 1 2. cube 2 3. cube 3
4. cube 4 5. cube 5
6. cube 6 7. cube 7
Top
5 5 2
5 1 2
1 1 2
Middle
7 5 2
4 4 3
6 4 4
Bottom
7 7 3
7 6 3
6 6 3
labelled cube

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