Let $R$ be a rectangular region of the integer lattice $\mathbb{Z}^2$, each of whose unit squares is labeled with a number in $\lbrace 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 \rbrace$. Say that such a labeled $R$ is *die-rolling Hamiltonian*, or simply *rollable*, if there is a Hamiltonian cycle obtained by rolling a unit die cube over its edges so that, for each square $s \in R$, the cube lands on $s$ precisely once, and when it does so, the top face of the cube matches the number in $s$. For example, the $4 \times 4$ "board" shown below is rollable. <br /> <img src="http://cs.smith.edu/~orourke/MathOverflow/DiceRolling.jpg" alt="Dice Rolling" /> <br /> > <b>Q</b>. Is it true that, if $R$ is die-rolling Hamiltonian, then the Hamiltonian cycle is unique, i.e., there are never two distinct die-rolling Hamiltonian cycles on $R$? This "unique-rollability" question arose out of a problem I posed in 2005, and was largely solved two years later, in a paper entitled, "On rolling cube puzzles" (complete citation below; the $4 \times 4$ example above is from Fig. 17 of that paper). Although the original question involved computational complexity, the possible uniqueness of Hamiltonian cycles is independent of those computational issues, so I thought it might be useful to expose it to a different community, who might bring different tools to bear. It is known to hold for $R$ with side lengths at most 8. If not every cell of $R$ is labeled, and unlabeled cells are forbidden to the die, then there are examples with more than one Hamiltonian cycle. <b>Edit1</b>. Rolling a regular tetrahedron on the equilateral triangular (hexagonal) lattice is not as interesting. See the Trigg article cited below. <b>Edit2</b>. Serendipitously, *gordon-royle* posted a perhaps(?) relevantly related question: "[Uniquely Hamiltonian graphs with minimum degree 4][1]." Note my rollable graphs are regular of degree 4, except around the boundary. <hr /> <ul> <li> The computational version is <a href="http://cs.smith.edu/~orourke/TOPP/P68.html#Problem.68"> Open Problem 68</a> at <a href="http://cs.smith.edu/~orourke/TOPP/">The Open Problems Project</a>. </li> <li> "On rolling cube puzzles." Buchin, Buchin, Demaine, Demaine, El-Khechen, Fekete, Knauer, Schulz, Taslakian. <em>Proceedings of the 19th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry</em>, Pages 141–144, 2007. <a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/schulz/papers/RollingFull.pdf">PDF link to full paper.</a> </li> <li> Charles W. Trigg. "Tetrahedron rolled onto a plane." <em>J. Recreational Mathematics</em>, 3(2):82–87, 1970. </li> </ul> [1]: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/87496/