| Place one digit (1-9) into each unit cube of a 3x3x3 cube such that each square layer of nine unit cubes contains all nine digits. There are nine such square layers, three in each of the three directions. |
123 978 564
456 312 897
789 645 231
Tony's solution stood out because it did NOT use a shifted version of the top layer for lower layers:
Kirk suggests a complete set of 40 solutions, after removing rotations and reflections is:
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