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How can I solve the armoire chest puzzle?
1 of 10: There are several different ways to figure out a placement for the seven pegs, not all of which require a peg to be in a corner square. However, that's how I always prefer to start due to the fact that it minimizes the number of directions you have to check to see where the next peg can't be placed.
2 of 10: Put a peg in the top left square, then see how close you can place another peg without getting the first one removed.
3 of 10: There are two possibilities: the square that's down two and right one, and the square that's right two and down one.
4 of 10: Notice that both of those are L-shaped "moves" from the first peg, much like the knight piece in the veranda puzzle you just did.
5 of 10: The two puzzles aren't really related, but I like to use L-shaped moves to place the next three pegs.
6 of 10: You can either go "down" or "across" with that. I prefer to go down, which means that the second through fourth pegs will each go two squares down and one square right from the previous peg's square.
7 of 10: Once those four pegs are placed, there are only five squares left on the board that don't "intersect" with any of them.
8 of 10: To find out which squares those are, take a screen capture of the puzzle board with the PRINT SCRN key, paste it in Windows Paint, and then draw red lines through every row, column, and diagonal that the four pegs occupy.
9 of 10: It should then be easy to figure out which three squares can be used to place the final pegs.
10 of 10: One way is to start with the top left of the five possible squares, then do the "down two, right one" routine to find the other two.
