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6 December

There are 5 ways to tile a 4×2 rectangle with 2×1 pieces:
How many ways are there to tile a 12×2 rectangle with 2×1 pieces?

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7 December

There are 15 dominos that can be made using the numbers 0 to 4 (inclusive):
The sum of all the numbers on all these dominos is 60.
Today's number is the sum of all the numbers on all the dominos that can be made using the numbers 5 to 10 (inclusive).

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4 December

There are 5 ways to tile a 3×2 rectangle with 2×2 squares and 2×1 dominos.
Today's number is the number of ways to tile a 9×2 rectangle with 2×2 squares and 2×1 dominos.

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