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Season 2 Episode 18 | 9m 32s Video has closed captioning.
Imagine you have four cubes, whose faces are colored red, blue, yellow, and green. Can you stack these cubes so that each color appears exactly once on each of the four sides of the stack?
Aired: 08/29/18
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