A partial answer: a result of Juraj Bosák says that if all vertices of a graceful graph have even degree, then the graph has $4k$ or $4k+3$ edges for some integer $k$ (proof given below). Since $K_5^{(3)}$ has $30$ edges, it is ungraceful. Gallian's survey attributes this result to [Rosa 1967]. See also Don Knuth's work-in-progress section 7.2.2.3 of _The Art of Computer Programming_ (https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc7a.ps.gz) for a computational discussion graceful labelings as constraint satisfaction problems. **Lemma 7.2.2.3O from _The Art of Computer Programming_.** _In any graceful labeling of a graph with $4k+1$ or $4k+2$ edges, the number of vertices with an odd degree and an odd label is always odd._ **Proof.** We have $\sum_{uv\in E(G)}|l(u)-l(v)|=1+2+\dots+m=\binom{m+1}{2}$ when there are $m$ edges; and a given vertex $v$ appears exactly $\deg(v)$ times in this sum. Working modulo $2$, we also have $|l(u)-l(v)|\equiv l(u)+l(v)$. Therefore $\sum_v\deg(v)l(v)\equiv\binom{m+1}{2}$. But $\binom{m+1}{2}\equiv1$ when $m=4k+1$ or $m=4k+2$. $\square$ --- ### Overview: gracefulness of windmill graphs $K_n^{(j)}$ ### | $n$ $\backslash$ $j$|$1$|$2$|$3$|$4$|$5$|$6$|$7$|$j\ge8$| |-----------------:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:----:| | $2$ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | $3$ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ if and only if $j\equiv0\hbox{ or }1\pmod4$| |$4$| ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ if $j\le1000$; ? otherwise | |$5$|✗|✗|✗|✗|✗|?|✗| ✗ if $j$ is odd; ? if $j$ is even | |$n\ge6$|✗|✗|✗|✗|✗|✗|✗|✗| When $n=2$, $K_2^{(j)}=K_{1,j}$ is a [star](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_(graph_theory)) and can always be gracefully labeled by placing $0$ in the internal vertex. When $n=3$, $K_3^{(j)}$ is a [friendship graph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_graph) and is graceful if and only if $j\equiv0\hbox{ or }1\pmod4$. The forward implication follows from J. Bosák's result in [Rosa 1965], and the reverse implication follows from a construction of [Skolem 1957]. When $n=4$ and $4\le j\le1000$, $K_n^{(j)}$ is graceful due to a construction of [Ge et al. 2010] (they construct $(12j+1,4,1)$-perfect distance families for $4\le j\le1000$, which are equivalent to graceful labelings of $K_4^{(j)}$). When $j>1000$, nothing is known, though [Bermond 1979] conjectures that $K_4^{(j)}$ is graceful for $j\ge4$. When $n=5$, if $j$ is odd, Bosák's result implies that $K_5^{(j)}$ is ungraceful. For even $j\ge6$, nothing is known. When $n\ge6$, a result of [Koh et al. 1980] implies that $K_n^{(j)}$ is always ungraceful. _________ ### References ### [Skolem 1957] Thoralf A. Skolem, _On Certain Distributions of Integers In Pairs With Given Differences_. Mathematica Scandinavica **5** (1957), 57–68. https://doi.org/10.7146/math.scand.a-10490 [Rosa 1965] Alexander Rosa, _O Cyklických Rozkladoch Kompletného Grafu, Kandidátska dizertačná práca_. (Bratislava: Českoslovanská akadémia vied, November 1965), ii+86 pages. (Note: Rosa attributes the result above to J. Bosák on page 17). https://archive.org/details/o-cyklickych-rozkladoch-kompletneho-garfu [Rosa 1967] Alexander Rosa, _On certain valuations of the vertices of a graph_. Theory of Graphs (International Symposium, Rome, July 1966), Gordon and Breach, N. Y. and Dunod Paris (1967), 349–355. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244474213_On_certain_valuations_of_the_vertices_of_a_graph [Bermond 1979] Jean-Claude Bermond, _Graceful graphs, radio antennae and French windmills_. In Graph Theory and Combinatorics (ed. R. J. Wilson), Research Notes in Mathematics **34** (1979), 18–37. (Proceedings of a one-day conference in combinatorics and graph theory held at the Open University, England, on 12 May 1978.) https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02340680 [Koh et al. 1980] Khee Meng Koh, D. G. Rogers, H. K. Teo, and K. Y. Yap, _Graceful graphs: some further results and problems_. Congressus Numerantium **29**: Proceedings of the 11th Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, Winnipeg, Manitoba (December 1980), 559–571 [Ge et al. 2010] Gennian Ge, Ying Miao, and Xianwei Sun, _Perfect difference families, perfect difference matrices and related combinatorial structures_. Journal of Combinatorial Designs **18**(6) (2010), 415–449. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcd.20259 [Knuth 2021] Donald E. Knuth, _The Art of Computer Programming_ Volume 4 Pre-Fascicle 7A, Section 7.2.2.3: Constraint Satisfaction (2020–). https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc7a.ps.gz