VB: 8 Chess Queens on 1 Chess Board [Source]

[KhalidMughal]

A source code of a logic game.
Arrange these 8 queens on a chess board in a way so that any queen could not reach to any other queen.

[Pino]

is it possible to complete? its annoyingly addictive

[KhalidMughal]

Yes, it is possible.
And it has more than 1 ways to solve.

[dsheller]

Yea, I know there is atleast 92 ways to do it.

[dglienna]

after trying it for a few days, I sent it to my 10 year old nephew, and to my amazement, he solved it in about 10 minutes!

go figure...

Good game. I had doubts that it was possible to complete. :D

Now, I can do it!

[KhalidMughal]

Thanks for the positive response.

Khalid Mahmood.

[dglienna]

it could use a "Start Again" button. sometimes, exit would clear things, but other times it ended the program.

[dglienna]

i think that there are 4 ways to solve it...

[Pino]

tell me one ;)

[Electroman]

Posted by Pino
tell me one ;) Thats would be spoiling it ;).

[dglienna]

when i googled for DONALD+GERALD=ROBERT, one of the examples was the 8-queens assignment that stated that there were 4 solutions. my nephew found one in ten minutes.

[Danial]

Very nice :), took me about 10 min to solve it ;).

Tempted to post a print screen, but i wont spoil it for rest of you.

:wave:

Edit : Anoter 5 min now I got 3 other solution! Is there more possiblity then 4?

[dglienna]

not according to the web.
are you a 10 year old, or did it take 10 minutes to google it?

[Danial]

Originally posted by dglienna
not according to the web.
are you a 10 year old, or did it take 10 minutes to google it?

I wish i was 10 year old. No I didnt google it! I used to play chess quite a lot :)

[Arie]

MAN!!! After 12 minutes of brain burning!!!! Got it!
Real good stuff... very interesting. :bigyello:
Plain simple and challanging.

Arie.

[wiccaan]

Heh thats pretty cool. I got about 5 of them done, but couldnt think of any others besides doing the ones that I did in diffrent directions. But yea, cool.

[wossname]

Probably the ugliest puzzle I've ever seen.

Not good for the eyes at all. There is no need for all the "*" in the empty boxes and the colours are terrible.

Other than that, nice work.

[henzino2]

So easy :P It took me one minute to solve, as there cant be more than one queen on each horizontal/vertical row the solution is obvious.

Very fun little program though! :)