Pickles AcademyStart for freeDice – practice for Years 2–6
Sample questions on Dice with the right answer and a worked solution, from easy to hard. In the Pickles Academy app a child gets new questions of the same kind every time, so they can't just learn the answers by heart.
- Subject
- Logic
- Year
- Years 2–6
- Curriculum area
- Spatial reasoning
Question types: What is on the die?
Rule: Dice
On a die, opposite faces always add up to 7: 1 and 6, 2 and 5, 3 and 4.
All six faces have 21 dots in total; the four side faces of one die have 7 + 7 = 14.
Example: The top shows 2, so the bottom shows 7 − 2 = 5.
Watch out: Two faces side by side never add up to 7: you never see the 6 and the 1 at the same time.
Sample questions
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Question 1 Easy
On a die, opposite faces always add up to 7. How many dots are on the bottom face of the die?
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Answer: 5How it works: 7 − 2 = 5
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Question 2 Normal
On a die, opposite faces always add up to 7. How many dots are there altogether on the three faces we cannot see?
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Answer: 9How it works: (7 − 2) + (7 − 4) + (7 − 6) = 9
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Question 3 Hard
On a die, opposite faces always add up to 7. A tower of 3 dice stands on a table. How many dots are there altogether on all the flat faces we cannot see (where the dice touch and where the tower touches the table)?
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Answer: 19How it works: The bottom of the top die has 5, every other die has 7 on its top and bottom together: 5 + 2 × 7 = 19.
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