OLYMPIC-REVENGE 2019 Problem 4
A regular icosahedron is a regular solid of faces, each in the form of an equilateral triangle, with vertices, so that each vertex is in edges. Twelve indistinguishable candies are glued to the vertices of a regular icosahedron (one at each vertex), and four of these twelve candies are special. André and Lucas want to together create a strategy for the following game: • First, André is told which are the four special sweets and he must remove exactly four sweets that are not special from the icosahedron and leave the solid on a table, leaving afterwards without communicating with Lucas. • Later, Sponchi, who wants to prevent Lucas from discovering the special sweets, can pick up the icosahedron from the table and rotate it however he wants. • After Sponchi makes his move, he leaves the room, Lucas enters and he must determine the four special candies out of the eight that remain in the icosahedron. Determine if there is a strategy for which Lucas can always properly discover the four special sweets.
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