Puzzle for the Day

[complicatedliar]

Shall the lovely Sakura with her knife-edged wits be unseated as mathematical monarch? Who shall be first to the solution today?



Put the numbers 1-13 at the corners and intersections of the 6-pointed snowflake so that each diamond has the same sum. Minimize the common sum.

No number may be reused.

Comments

[see_my_back]

When you say it like that, it feels like I have to win. I can get pretty competitive when it comes to this kind of thing!

[complicatedliar]

I thought a little friendly competition would add some spice to things. :)

[see_my_back]

[The note is folded over with a drawn on top along with her attempt at fancy writing which reads "Solution here!". She won't play nice like Kurama, she wants the glory of her imaginary title dammit! But she doesn't mind giving others the option of trying to solve it themselves.]

There's a few different solutions, but I think the smallest sum possible is 21!

5
10 8 7 9
2 1 4
12 6 3 13
11

How's that? Do I still get to keep my title?

[ooc: aaaaagh why am I at work? I wanted to make it all pretty with the photoshops. :C]

[see_my_back]

[ooc: dangit, formatting for the snowflake text didn't work. Pretend it looks super amazing like the website where I totally didn't sneak the answers... right here]

[complicatedliar]

[ooc: OMG YOU CHEATER]

Correct again! You take first place.

There are two other possibly solutions to this problem, however. I wonder who else will find them?

[see_my_back]

Was there ever a doubt?

I guess I'll let someone else try for the other answers. But if no one claims them by the end of lunch, I'm totally posting those too!

[ooc: I BLAME MY CHARACTERS FOR BEING SMARTER THAN MEEEEE :C]