315.--THE HAT-PEG PUZZLE.

The moves will be made quite clear by a reference to the diagrams, which

show the position on the board after each of the four moves. The darts

indicate the successive removals that have been made. It will be seen

that at every stage all the squares are either attacked or occupied, and

that after the fourth move no queen attacks any other. In the case of

the last move the queen in the top row might also have been moved one

square farther to the left. This is, I believe, the only solution to the

puzzle.

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