<![CDATA[Polar bears and other dice puzzles]]>Polar bears is no doubt the most famous dice puzzle around. I first heard it when I studied mathematics, and Douglas Hofstadters book “Godel, Escher, Bach” may have been the source.
If you want to puzzle your friends, roll 5 dice, and tell the how many polar bears can be spotted. Then roll 5 dice again, let them guess, and tell them the correct number if they guess wrong.

1) Polar bears***/*****
The polar bears puzzle is traditionally presented as a throw of 5 dice. If you are stumped, don’t despair, it is rumored that Bill Gates could only partially solve it.



Even though you may find it hard, I do encourage you to try to solve it before consulting the answer.

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2) Seals***/*****
Polar bears hunt for seals. How many seals do you count?
This puzzle is inspired by the authors of https://www.pleacher.com/handley/puzzles/polrbear.html.


You can check your solution here

3) Fish***/*****
This puzzle too is inspired by the authors above, though in both instances I changed names to get a more logical picture.


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