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Kate has eight multilink cubes. She has two red ones, two yellow, two green and two blue.


She wants to fit them together to make a cube so that each colour shows on each face just once.


Is it possible ?

If so, how?

If you've found a way, is there another way?

Printable NRICH Roadshow resource.

If you want more of a challenge, have a look at this problem:

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