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In this puzzle you need to identify the minimum number of colors needed to color vertices such that no two adjacent vertices have the same color.

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Here, grey dots indicate vertices :P (sorry for bad drawing). You can use any colors to solve this puzzle. Also, you can take any vertex as the starting vertex.

All the best :)

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  • $\begingroup$ I suspect that this is a duplicate question, or at least "similar enough" to an existing question. For your sake though, my answer would be three or four, as the schlegel diagram of a dodecahedron can be coloured with three (see left image here—it's slightly different—you only need to change two vertices to a fourth colour to make it work.) $\endgroup$
    – user46002
    Commented Mar 30, 2020 at 5:03
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    $\begingroup$ What did you use to build that diagram? :O $\endgroup$
    – m4n0
    Commented Mar 30, 2020 at 5:12
  • $\begingroup$ @ManojKumar Paint :P $\endgroup$
    – Swati
    Commented Mar 30, 2020 at 5:13
  • $\begingroup$ @Hugh Sorry, i was not knowing that this question is already present somewhere :) $\endgroup$
    – Swati
    Commented Mar 30, 2020 at 5:14

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Four colors are needed.

Example coloring using a greedy algorithm:

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It cannot be done with 3 since the Moser Spindle is a subgraph of this graph and it has a chromatic number of 4 (it has a minimum of 4 colors to color the vertices)

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    $\begingroup$ well explain :) $\endgroup$
    – Swati
    Commented Mar 30, 2020 at 8:49

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