Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/253 - The Angelica Puzzle

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 * The Angelica Puzzle
 * Draw a square with three lines in both direction and place on the intersecting points eight lettered counters as shown in our illustration.


 * Dudeney-Puzzles-and-Curious-Problems-253.png


 * The puzzle is to move the counters, one at a time, along the lines from point to vacant point until you get them in the order $\text {ANGELICA}$ thus:


 * $\begin{array} \\ A & N & G \\ E & L & I \\ C & A & .\end {array}$


 * Try to do this in the fewest possible moves.