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by vore 1250 days ago
I wish it could keep track of where the knight has already been.
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That and some explanatory text as to what the game actually is. My first thought was to try to capture the queen.
It has text now? "Move the knight to every square, right to left, top to bottom. Don’t land anywhere the queen can take you, and don’t take the queen."
Except, it's not accurate. It says "move the knight to every square" but the game is actually "move the knight to the next square specified".
It might not be obvious, but the specified squares are "all the squares in the order right to left, top to bottom without those the queen can attack" as the text instructs.
The text changed since my comment was posted.
I'm on a phone, I think that's the difference.
I tried and it wouldn’t let me. :(
Yeah the goal is actually to avoid the queen while visiting every space. Eventually I clicked "Help" and learned that.
How do you visit the squares that the queen is covering?
You don’t. They’re not counted I think.
Yes I agree. They do have a square coordinate at the bottom which is the next square to go to following that will get you all the chess squares
How does that help you get to the indicated square?
I didn't actually realize the goal of the game was to do it all in order! The help text just says "Move the knight to every square, right to left, top to bottom."
I'm having difficulty understanding your difficulty in understanding. What did you think "right to left, top to bottom" meant?
I got the same problem, I thought it meant 'relative to the current position', until you hit bottom left.
It may have been updated after you started.