Braingle: 'Skeleton' Brain Teaser

Skeleton

Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.

Puzzle ID:	#30037
Fun:	(2.33)
Difficulty:	(2.86)
Category:	Situation
Submitted By:	Jim1029

Mike and Chris are hanging out. Mike has a skeleton and an island. Chris just has a skeleton. Strangely, nobody is weirded out by this. Even stranger, very few people know what they have is called an island or skeleton!

What is going on here?

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Comments

TheEarthling Apr 25, 2006	I don't really play chess, so I don't know such things. Great teaser anyway.
calmsavior Apr 28, 2006	a "skeleton" is generally what you call the whole pawn structure of one player; an "island" is a group of pawns that are connected by being on the file just adjacent to the file of that pawn. Black: PP_PPP_P White: PPP__PPP White has 2 pawn islands, while Black has 3. Usually the more pawn islands you have, the weaker your pawn structure actually is. Notice that black's right-hand pawn is isolated, meaning that it can't be defended by another pawn. These are very weak.
G-Thing Apr 29, 2006	Your right I didn't know what a skelaton or an island was. Good teaser anyway
irar1792 Apr 29, 2006	i had no clue
spazzyjazzy93 May 06, 2006	oh. . .ok. . . maybe this one should be in the trivia section :?
Punk_Rocker May 10, 2006	Wow, I had no idea and I said, "Wow they're probably playing chess or something." Freaky. Nice one though, that's interesting.
fem81uk May 13, 2006	for some reason i was thinking halloween type stuff
OldChinaHand May 20, 2006	This was really a good one. I learnt something new today. Thanks.
blagh May 22, 2006	Chess is fun?
udoboy May 26, 2006	I thought it was a Magic: the Gathering thing.
GebbieRose May 29, 2006	Figured they were playing a game, but didn't know what one. Learn something new every day. Good job!
banzai May 31, 2006	Interesting. I also learned something about chess. Thank you.
rkaaland Nov 04, 2006	You know a lot about CHESS! Good Job!