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Coin Puzzles
Money Goes Round



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Place nine coins on a 5x5 board as shown. A move consists of one coin jumping over another coin in an adjacent square to land in an unoccupied square. When a coin has been jumped over it is removed. The object is to end up with one coin in the center in eight (8) moves.



CREDITS: With Permission from the Department of Mathematics, The University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/~infinity/Infinity8/money.html