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Double chess stalemate with 60 units
My solution is
0 B K K K K R B
B R K K K K K R
K K K K K K K K
K B B B R R R 0
0 r r r b b b k
k k k k k k k k
r k k k k k r b
b r k k k k b 0
where upper case ...
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Double chess stalemate with 60 units
Update: One ... more ...
Not at all unique:
and there are more.
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Double chess stalemate with 60 units
At first I didn't see a way through, and then I realized that not every piece needs to be on the front lines:
While this particular arrangement is symmetrical, it admits not only its reflections and ...
26
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A pentagon that can measure the first 7 integer distances
A possibly more elegant solution for 1..7 if we don't insist on a convex pentagon.
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Accepted
4
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Cut a square piece of paper
"All four corners must be preserved" - I took to mean I could cut the four corners and not have them be in the original location.
8
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Accepted
Cut a square piece of paper
This is probably not exactly what you intended, but here is a way to make each of the three paths AB, AC, AD any length you like.
Here is a solution with fewer cuts:
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