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Bob Greenwade wrote on Fri, Mar 1, 2024 07:32 AM UTC:

226. (1,1) Zigzag Nightrider. 227. (2,0) Zigzag Nightrider. 228. (3,3) Zigzag Nightrider. and 229. (4,0) Zigzag Nightrider. I'm posting this group of four all together because I'm at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle this weekend, and things are pretty busy. In fact, today was so tense that I almost didn't get them up at all! But I'll be headed back Monday evening, when I can post from home.

When I first encountered these pieces, I had no idea what the descriptions were trying to tell me. Only recently did I get it: the numbers are where the piece is, relative to its starting point, after two moves. So the (1,1) Zigzag Nightrider starts with a standard Knight's move, then turns back (about 135°) to the space diagonally adjacent to its start, and continues in a zigzag manner from there. (Nabl(abz)N)

The (2,0) Zigzag Nightrider makes that first move, then turns back the other way so its second stop is two spaces away orthogonally from its starting spot. (Nabr(abz)N)

The (3,3) Zigzag Nightrider makes its initial Knight move, then turns only about 45° to the square three spaces diagonally from the starting point, and zigzags away from there. (Nafr(afz)N)

And the (4,0) Zigzag Nightrider, after its first move, turns about 45° to get to the space four spaces away from the starting square orthogonally, and zigzags that way. (Nafl(afz)N)

There are various way of combining these, of course, among them the Spiral and Plummet that I shared last week.

The models aren't much to look at, but hopefully this description will help someone else who's having trouble understanding these pieces to find the light of understanding.

And this is probably not that last you've heard of them from me....


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