Colour in the Square

Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 x 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?
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Problem



Can you put the $25$ coloured tiles into the $5\times 5$ square below so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have the same colour in them?

Use the interactivity below to try out your ideas.

 



Printable NRICH Roadshow resource.