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September 2006 Puzzle
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Ten checkers numbered 1 – 10 are lined up as shown in the figure below. Your objective is to create five piles of two checkers each in only five moves. On each move a single checker must “jump” exactly two checkers (in either direction) and land on the next single checker. The two jumped checkers may be two single checkers side-by-side or a stacked pair.
When writing your solution, simply give the sequence of five moves using language such as checker 1 jumps checkers 2 and 3 landing on checker 4 etc...
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