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Two chunky pixelated X's locked in mortal combat!

Puzzling Asked by plasticinsect on September 11, 2020

In this dramatic image, we witness two rather chunky pixelated letter X’s (having recently fattened themselves up for the approaching winter) locked in mortal combat, fighting to the death for the right to claim territory and ultimately to survive and have offspring.* It may seem cruel, but it is nature’s way.

Two chunky pixelated letter X's fighting to the death!

But of course none of this actually matters to this puzzle. What does matter is that the above shape can be wrapped onto the surface of a cube in a way that perfectly covers the entire cube, with no gaps and no overlaps. Your task is to show how this can be done.

*You might need to, um, squint with your brain a bit in order to see this.

3 Answers

As I don't have a camera handy, I have had to unfold my (pink) cube before I could show it to you. Its sides are Sqrt(52) = Sqrt(4^2+6^2) units long.

Correct answer by Penguino on September 11, 2020

The combined area of the X's is

The solution:

Answered by Daniel Mathias on September 11, 2020

Here's a diagram showing both the parts of the shape that make up each face of the cube in its own colour, and trying to give some indication of how they meet up when folded.

Answered by Weeble on September 11, 2020

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