Problem 32: Prime Cuts

Today’s challenge is a lovely problem inspired by a question in last year’s ‘Tournament of Towns’, a maths competition that began in Russia and now has participants from around the world.

In a 12-digit number N, every pair of adjacent digits forms a 2-digit prime number, and all 11 of those prime numbers are different.

What is the last digit of N?

Are there any other digits that must have a particular value?

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