You have quarters laid out in the following pattern on the left and you want to move quarters to form the pattern on the right.

  Q      Q Q
 Q Q    Q   Q
Q Q Q    Q Q

Before| |After

The only rule is you must slide a coin without moving any others, such that the coin's ending location touches two other quarters. This means the following moves are illegal:

 A 1     Moving C to 1    
B C D 2  Moving B to 2  
 E F 

What is the shortest solution?

This is outrageous. Someone called "penny" (small p) has appeared. "penny" is pretending to be me. I am Penny, not penny. This should not be allowed. Identity theft is a Federal offense.

Posted by Penny on 2004-03-27 03:39:26