Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/138 - The Four Draughtsmen

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 * The Four Draughtsmen
 * Here is a queer new puzzle that I know will interest my readers considerably.


 * The four are shown exactly as they stood on a square chequered board --
 * not necessarily eight squares by eight --
 * but the ink with which the board was drawn was evanescent,
 * so that all the diagram except the men has disappeared.
 * How many squares were there in the board and how am I to reconstruct it?
 * I know that each man stood in the middle of a square,
 * one on the edge of each side of the board and no man in a corner.


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 * It is a real puzzle, until you hit on the method of solution.
 * and then to get the correct answer is absurdly easy.