Today, a “chess” puzzle with Sir Leigh Teabing that’s really a disguise for more trivia questions about the book. The puzzle features a chess board with with an end game position on it. You want to get it to a check mate position. In a column on the left is a trivia question with four possible answers. When you mouse over each answer, a different move is demonstrated on the chess board. When you select an answer, that move is executed. Of course, only the correct answer will get you one move closer to check mate.
So there are really two ways to solve these puzzles. The first is to just answer all of the trivia questios, which you will know if you’ve read the book (or if you can use google effectively.) The second is to figure out how to get the chess match to check mate. (Or you can combine the two, which is sort of what I did.)
Interestingly, we weren’t asked to name a symbol today. This is odd, since that’s been the theme all week. I have to say, I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s puzzle the most. First, to see what character (if any) is associated with it. And second to see how it relates to phi.
There’s a note on the Google blog that it might be wise to figure out the chess answers without the help of the multiple-choice questions. Wei-Hwa suggested that it would be “good training” for the Final Challenge.
Also, I expected it to be a “force checkmate in 3 moves” type of puzzle rather than a “what sequence of steps within the large universe of possible steps ends with a checkmate?”