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Chess

Can you place a queen, a bishop, a knight and a rook on this chessboard that the red squares are attacked by exactly two pieces, the green ones by 3 pieces and the yellow ones by 4 pieces?

Par Four

You have four shots in which to get your golf ball upwards from the tee to the hole. Choose one each from the Drive, Iron, Chip and Putt selections. Each shot goes straight from the starting to finishing square. Only one combination will get you in the hole and you may never land off the grid, in a tree or in a bunker.

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Chessolo

You MUST capture one piece on every move until only one piece remains. A king can't be captured. As usual, pawns capture diagonally moving up the page.

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Pokergrams

Move the cards listed below into the grid so that the best possible poker hand in each row and column matches the labels shown.

The order of the cards doesn't matter: for example, 5-4-6-7-3 still counts as a 7-high straight.

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Pokergrams

Chessolo

You MUST capture one piece on every move until only one piece remains. A king can’t be captured. As usual, pawns capture diagonally moving up the page.

Barden's Chess Column

Leonard Barden is one of the World’s leading chess writers. The former British champion has contributed daily or weekly columns to the Guardian, Financial Times, and London Evening Standard for over 40 years, as well as contributing many articles to specialist magazines.

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Bridge by Bird

A simple auction carries you to a small slam in diamonds.

How will you play this contract when West leads a low club to the nine and ace, East returning the three of clubs?

You ruff the club return and cross to dummy with a trump. What now? If East holds the king of spades, a successful spade finesse will yield the contract.

You can draw the last trump and ruff your three remaining major-suit losers in the dummy. If instead East holds the heart queen, you will fare better
by finessing in hearts.

You can then throw a spade from dummy on the third round of hearts, again proceeding to ruff your three remaining losers in the dummy. Which finesse should you take?

Against 90% of the world’s defenders there is no need to guess! Lead the spade queen at Trick 3. If East has the king he will (wrongly) cover. If he fails to cover, rise with the ace, cross to dummy with another trump and take the heart finesse instead. You get the best of both worlds.