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Article: Knight's challenge answered.(puzzles)
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- Word Ways
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2009 Jeremiah Farrell. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Only one solution was received for the Five-Jog Knight puzzle contest posed in the November Word Ways. Submitted in mid-December, editor Jeremiah Farrell's solution managed to achieve a 20/20 Collegiate score, which is to say that every word in its 20-word word set is an entry in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. Such perfection had not been expected.
Readers may recall that the object of this puzzle was to find a word for each of the 20 node circles in the knight's network such that each letter of that word would be shared with one of the neighboring node-words to which it was connected by a knight's move. A further constraint was that each letter of the ...