--- title: Solution to the ladybug clock puzzle | daily.dev description: A ladybug puzzle solution reveals a counterintuitive result: when a ladybug randomly walks around a clock face coloring numbers, each position (1-11) has equal... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/solution-to-the-ladybug-clock-puzzle-rp5dc0utw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Solution to the ladybug clock puzzle | daily.dev og:description: A ladybug puzzle solution reveals a counterintuitive result: when a ladybug randomly walks around a clock face coloring numbers, each position (1-11) has equal... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/solution-to-the-ladybug-clock-puzzle-rp5dc0utw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rp5DC0Utw.png og:image:alt: Solution to the ladybug clock puzzle og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Solution to the ladybug clock puzzle **[3Blue1Brown](https://daily.dev/sources/3blue1brown)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A ladybug puzzle solution reveals a counterintuitive result: when a ladybug randomly walks around a clock face coloring numbers, each position (1-11) has equal probability (1/11) of being the last colored. The key insight transforms the problem by waiting until the ladybug reaches a neighbor of any target number, then recognizing this becomes equivalent to a random walk question that's identical for all positions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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