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A little Unity project to explore a math puzzle
This math puzzle was proposed on The Guardian:
How to fill up the slots with the numbers from 1 to 9 and make the result 66? I proposed it to my kids, who are actually still too young to appreciate the algebraic solution. So I created a simple “brute force” explorer of the problem – here – and used to explore the possible solutions.
Here is the complete Unity project. Play with it!
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