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[Phek Yen NG]

Hi. Does anyone know how many ways (possibilities) of building the duck (6 pcs)? I recently approached by some clients here. I’m trying to get a close to approximate possibilities:)

[Patricia Kistenmacher]

Hi Phek, could this article help? http://www.math.ku.dk/~eilers/lego.html#whywrong

[Elrika Erasmus]

Hi Phek, the most recognisable ducks I have seen was 21. Best wishes!

[Phek Yen NG]

Thanks a lot Patricia and Elrika for the helpful info:)

[Sebastian]

Hi Phek,

Mathematically it should be in the 10s or hundreds of thousands of combinations or permutations or possibly even more..
In reality in my experience if I ask 50 people to build ducks.. about 3 to 4 would be similar though not exactly so.

However all 50 are building a duck according to how their hands and minds sees a duck.

If you transpose this the possibility for different ducks in a group if people would be about 92 %…

In a demo workshop of 6 to 8 people noone has ever built similar ducks.

Hope this helps.

[Phek Yen NG]

Hi Sebastian, thanks for sharing. It’s very helpful!:)

[Susanne van Wagensveld]

On http://legoduckchallenge.tumblr.com/ they found 195 ducks.

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