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The Hexagonal Tortoise Problem

In the 17th century, Korean aristocrat Choi Seok-jeong proposed a puzzle inspired by the pattern on a tortoise shell: Can you assign the numbers 1 to 30 to the vertices in this diagram so that each hexagon bears the same sum?

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October 10, 2018 | Puzzles

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