Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/304 - Grasshoppers' Quadrille

Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $304$

Grasshoppers' Quadrille

It is required to make the white men change places with the black men in the fewest possible moves.

There is no diagonal play, nor are there captures.

The white men can only move to the right or downwards, and the black men to the left or upwards,

but they may leap over one of the opposite colour, as in draughts.

It is quite easy when once you have hit on the method of solution.

Sources

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