Can you solve the Knight's Swap puzzle?

Опубликовано: 06 Сентябрь 2026
на канале: Henrique Ferrolho
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This is a puzzle about swapping the positions of four knights, 2 black and 2 white, in a weirdly-shaped chess board.

Download link for the PPT slides used in this video
https://www.dropbox.com/s/41mjgax0cpv...

A special thanks to Hugo Sereno Ferreira (https://hugosereno.com), who first shared this nice puzzle with me. I have since discovered similar puzzles, and even a Nintendo Switch game based around this concept:

Knight's Swap, NRICH, University of Cambridge
https://nrich.maths.org/997

Switch The Knights, Puzzling, Stack Exchange
https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/qu...

Knight Swap, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nint...

Knight Swap Puzzle, Pothoven Network
https://pothoven.net/knightPuzzle.html

Knight Swap, Mathematics Centre
https://www.mathematicscentre.com/tas...

Finally, apologies for my voice; I'm still recovering from a flu.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:22 Knight's movement
00:44 Problem statement
01:06 Solution
01:27 Solution (Explained)

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