8 queens of death

**murph_3** · 10-22-2006, 18:30:27

i get 7, i just cant get the 8th!!!

**sonicfan0** · 10-22-2006, 19:51:43

i have that same problem i told u it was hard

**ThemePark** · 10-23-2006, 14:10:41

Ah, the famous 8 Queens problem

There are 92 solutions for this one, 12 of them being unique

So it can be solved

**umpthis31** · 10-23-2006, 14:42:55

solved

**BeanMan3** · 10-23-2006, 18:39:57

Hey I found it three hours ago without looking at this thread!

**Sammie C** · 10-24-2006, 01:13:58

Well, that was easy! Only took one go.

**murph_3** · 10-24-2006, 04:13:45

well, could some one help me so i can go on with my life??? lol!!!

**ThemePark** · 10-24-2006, 13:36:55

Well, the key is to place most of the queens a knights jump away from each other. So for one solution, place a queen in B8, or in other words, on the second field in the top row and then jump like a knight towards the right, one row down at a time.

**murph_3** · 10-24-2006, 16:27:26

ummm...then what??? i did that, and i still can only get 6

**ThemePark** · 10-24-2006, 19:24:30

Okay, here's one solution.

**sonicfan0** · 10-24-2006, 21:24:03

theme that one i've tried like so many times its like one of the most obvious ones

**Xara** · 10-25-2006, 01:59:40

I tried and failed horrible .... the non-chess player

**Adventure** · 10-25-2006, 07:58:07

This is fun.

I love this sort of puzzles.

So far I have 4 solutions.

I leave it by this for now.

**ThemePark** · 10-25-2006, 08:54:33

Now you only need 8 more to have found all 12 unique solutions then Adventure

8 queens of death

8 queens of death

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