{"id":8993,"date":"2025-08-03T06:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T06:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brg.me.uk\/?p=8993"},"modified":"2025-08-03T06:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T06:32:09","slug":"sunday-times-teaser-3280-no-square-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brg.me.uk\/?p=8993","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Times Teaser 3280 &#8211; No Square Rolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>by Peter Good<\/em><\/h3>\n<h4>Published Sunday August 03 2025 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/article\/8ad1c823-4ef3-4695-aba8-0ae9aff7b556\">link<\/a>)<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clark had a set of more than one identical six-sided dice, and each die had a different positive whole number on each face. He would roll the dice and work out the total of all the numbers showing on the top faces. Clark knew that the largest possible total was 69, but it took him much longer to realise that it was impossible to roll a total that was a perfect square. The latter was true no matter how many of the dice were rolled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In ascending order, what were the six numbers on each die?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Peter Good Published Sunday August 03 2025 (link) Clark had a set of more than one identical six-sided dice, and each die had a different positive whole number on each face. He would roll the dice and work out the total of all the numbers showing on the top faces. Clark knew that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brg.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brg.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brg.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brg.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brg.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brg.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/brg.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brg.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brg.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brg.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}