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A Queen and her Pawns
Place a queen and as many pawns as possible on a chessboard so that the queen has just one way of capturing all the pawns in precisely as many moves as there are pawns. Pawns do not move and do not ...
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Minimize the longest King chain on a 6x6 ternary grid
This puzzle is an extension of this one: Minimize the longest King chain on a 5x5 binary board
Given a grid filled with numbers, we define a King chain to be a path on the grid such that:
The path ...
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Minimize the longest King chain on a 7x7 binary grid
This puzzle is an extension of this one: Minimize the longest King chain on a 5x5 binary board
Given a grid filled with numbers, we define a King chain to be a path on the grid such that:
The path ...
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Minimize the longest King chain on a 5x5 binary board
Given a grid filled with numbers, let's define a King chain to be a path on the grid such that
the path can be traversed with chess King's moves (moving to one of 8 adjacent cells at a time),
the ...
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