# D&D dice for literary people

Put a letter on each face of an icosahedron such that a five-letter word can be read clockwise around each vertex. Specifically, these words:

ENDOW
ERODE
LANES
NAMED
RESTS
ROLLS
SEEMS
SEWER
SLOTS
SMALL
STORE
WORSE


Every word in the above list will appear around exactly one vertex.

Some letters might appear on multiple faces.

As an illustration of how it might look, notice how the word ENDOW can be read clockwise around the vertex:

If you don't have a 3-D model of an icosahedron to work on, you might consider printing out the planar graph of an icosahedron. Just keep in mind that the 20th face stands outside the graph.

• This isn't much of a puzzle for us, but it was impressive to come up with the idea and list of words. It's a shame we don't have a recognized alternate color alphabet (why don't we?) so that all the letters are 'right side up' from every perspective. Jul 19 at 9:14
• @MikeSerfas — Thank you. I try to come up with a range of puzzles for various skill levels and conceptual abilities. Someone who is not a natural spatial thinker might find this puzzle to be very challenging and enjoyable. You're right, a lot of heavy computation went into making this! Jul 19 at 13:00