Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/118 - The Improvised Draughts-Board

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 * The Improvised Draughts-Board
 * Some Englishmen at the front during the Great War wished to pass a restful hour at a game of draughts.
 * They had coins and small stones for the men, but no board.
 * However, one of them found a piece of linoleum as shown n the illustration,
 * and, as it contained the right number of squares, it was decided to cut it and fit the pieces together to form a board,
 * blacking some of the squares afterwards for convenience in playing.


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 * An ingenious Scotsman showed how this could be done by cutting the stuff in two pieces only,
 * and it is a really good puzzle to discover how he did it.


 * Cut the linoleum along the lines into two pieces that will fit together and form the board, eight by eight.