A DUNGEON PUZZLE.
(
The Guarded Chessboard)
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Answer:
If the prisoner takes the route shown in the diagram--where for
clearness the doorways are omitted--he will succeed in visiting every
cell once, and only once, in as many as fifty-seven straight lines. No
rook's path over the chessboard can exceed this number of moves.
[Illustration: THE LANGUISHING MAIDEN]
[Illustration: A DUNGEON PUZZLE.]
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