Country-Capital Knight's Tour Challenge
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Last updated: Saturday August 1st, 2020
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Are you up to the challenge of solving a fiendish puzzle?
Here's a small training example: in the 5x5 grid of letters shown below on the left, there is a country and its capital that can be spelled out by jumping from letter to letter around the board as a knight in chess would do. The starting letter must be determined.
SOLUTION: FRANCE - PARIS.
As you can see from the solution, the answer is FRANCE-PARIS, beginning with the F in cell 3,4, then jumping from letter to letter by knight's move to finish with the S in cell 2,3. (Cell coordinates can be identified in the order blue, orange). The solution to this puzzle could be given as a four-digit coordinate code by combining the coordinates of its first and last letters as 3,4 2,3.
Note that the country continues into its capital, and that no cell is used twice throughout the entire knight's tour.
Now for the real challenge. Applying the same rules as the training example, find the country-capital sequence contained in the following 10x10 grid.
If you solve the puzzle, claim victory and give the four-digit coordinate code in the comments below!