Friday, November 26, 2010

Eight Queens - One puzzle a day - Puzzle Buddies

Puzzle: How many ways we can arrange eight queens on a 8*8 chessboard, so that no queen can kill the other queens?
Note: Don't forget to visit us again. Answer to the puzzle will be posted tomorrow with winner's name. You can provide your answer in comments.

Solution:puzzle has 92 distinct solutions. If solutions that differ only by rotations and reflections of the board are counted as one, the puzzle has 12 solutions

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