William Willing

An item in Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities reminded me of a puzzle I once amused myself with during a boring physics class. I wanted to create a puzzle for the school paper where you have a 4×4 grid filled with letters and you have to use the knight’s move to visit all squares in the right order so you get a sixteen-letter word.

After I picked the word, I tried to fill all squares, but soon I suspected that what I wanted wasn’t possible; I couldn’t find a way to reach all sixteen squares using a knight’s move (one square horizontal or vertical and one diagonal) without passing any square twice. Now I had a new puzzle: prove that this is impossible.

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Here’s a funny piece of BASIC code by Matthew Sewell. It helps if you know the poem it parodies.

This is easily the funniest Monkey Island walkthrough I’ve ever seen. Enjoy.

Why my brain decided to produce this bit of silliness is beyond me, but since it did, I might as well share it with you.

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