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THE COLOURED COUNTERS.

(Chessboard Problems)
The diagram represents twenty-five coloured counters, Red, Blue, Yellow,
Orange, and Green (indicated by their initials), and there are five of
each colour, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The problem is so to place them
in a square that neither colour nor number shall be found repeated in
any one of the five rows, five columns, and two diagonals. Can you so
rearrange them?


Answer:

The counters may be arranged in this order:--
R1, B2, Y3, O4, GS.
Y4, O5, G1, R2, B3.
G2, R3, B4, Y5, O1.
B5, Y1, O2, G3, R4.
O3, G4, R5, B1, Y2.










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