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The Chess Finesse

Posted By: Nack Ballard
Date: Friday, 10 May 2019, at 4:58 p.m.

In Response To: The Chess Finesse (Nack Ballard)

Daniel Murphy e-mailed me 8 or 9 hours ago, not realizing I had already posted the solution (or the Chess Finesse follow-up). Daniel wrote:

For the puzzle, I envisioned a chess board instead of vineyards, and place a bottle on each square.

A drinks from the 32 bottles on White’s side of the board.
B drinks from the 32 bottles on the left side of the board.

The pattern of the overlap divides the board into 4 quadrants. Similarly A and/or B’s deaths (later) identify the quadrant of the board where the poison bottle is.

In the same pattern as A and B drank from the entire board, C and D each drink from 8 bottles in each of the 4 quadrants. The resulting pattern divides each quadrant by four — we have now 16 squares of 4 squares each, E and F repeat the pattern drinking from 2 bottles in each of the 16 four-square.

Nack

Messages In This Thread

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    • Possible Solution Above **Spoiler**
      Mike Clapsadle -- Tuesday, 7 May 2019, at 11:46 p.m.
  • Clarification
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  • The Brew That Is True
    Sam Pottle -- Thursday, 9 May 2019, at 9:13 p.m.
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    Nack Ballard -- Friday, 10 May 2019, at 7:18 a.m.
    • The Chess Finesse
      Nack Ballard -- Friday, 10 May 2019, at 7:44 a.m.
      • The Chess Finesse
        Nack Ballard -- Friday, 10 May 2019, at 4:58 p.m.
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      Sam Pottle -- Friday, 10 May 2019, at 5:12 p.m.