1. Tom and Geck are ordered to write a big slogan for the 2020 Moscow Mathematical Olympiad (MMO). The slogan is written on rectangular wooden boards, each 5 cm wide, and then joined together horizontally. Tom writes MMO, and Geck writes 2020. Each letter and each digit is 9 cm wide. Can Geck manage to use fewer boards than Tom for the ink to spread on?
1. OK.

Assuming the distance between letters is 6 centimeters.
Tom can use 3 wooden boards to write one letter: there are 3 centimeters from the sides of the letter to the edge of the board. In this way, the ink from the three letters Tom writes will be on 9 wooden boards. And Geke uses two wooden boards to write each number, with 0.5 centimeters from the sides of the number to the edge of the board, and a blank wooden board is used to separate every two adjacent numbers, so he only gets ink on 8 wooden boards.