SOLUTIONS
Eleven bears cannot possibly be
seven Vows of bears with four
a different matter when Cap-
tain Longbow informs us that
" they had so placed themselves
that
there were"
seven rows
of four bears. For if they
were grouped as shown in the
diagram, so that three of the
bears, as indicated, were in line
with the North Pole, that im-
paled animal would complete
the seventh row of four, which
cannot be obtained in any other
way. It obviously does not
affect the problem whether this
seventh row is a hundred miles
they were really in a straight line,
the captain's pocket compass.
arranged to form of themselves
bears in every row. But it is
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long or a hundred feet, so long as
a point that might be settled by
87.—
The Chifu-Chemulpo Puzzle.
The solution is as follows : You may accept the invitation to " try
to do it in twenty moves," but you will never succeed in performing
the feat. The fewest possible moves are twenty-six. Play the cars
so as to reach the following positions :—
05678
ln
= IU moves
= 2 moves
1234
056
123 87
56
0312 87
0
4
4
87654321
= 5 moves
= 9 moves
Twenty-six moves in all.
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