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Situation
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.Situation
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?
What is going on here?
Hint
Think fun.Answer
Mike and Chris are playing a game of chess. In chess, certain pawn formations are called "islands" or "skeletons".Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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I don't really play chess, so I don't know such things. Great teaser anyway.
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.
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.
Your right I didn't know what a skelaton or an island was. Good teaser anyway
i had no clue
oh. . .ok. . .
maybe this one should be in the trivia section :?
maybe this one should be in the trivia section :?
Wow, I had no idea and I said, "Wow they're probably playing chess or something." Freaky. Nice one though, that's interesting.
for some reason i was thinking halloween type stuff
This was really a good one. I learnt something new today. Thanks.
Chess is fun?
I thought it was a Magic: the Gathering thing.
Figured they were playing a game, but didn't know what one. Learn something new every day. Good job!
Interesting. I also learned something about chess. Thank you.
You know a lot about CHESS! Good Job!
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