Mate in 1 puzzles: one move ends the game. Look at every check you can give and find the one the king cannot escape. They are the best way to start seeing checkmates quickly.
Here are 6 of the 30 puzzles from this world, from first to last. Your pieces are gold and you move first; your side is at the bottom of the board. Missing squares are water: no piece can stand on them, the Tower, Prophet and Judge can’t cross them, and only the Scout jumps over.
The world has turned away, but Noah walks with God.
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dcGold: Shepherd c3, King d3, Shepherd d2. Stone: King d1.
This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Food is stored for every creature on board.
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hgfedcbGold: Tower b8, King f6. Stone: King h6.
Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.
Forty days and forty nights of rain.
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432fghGold: Scout f8, Judge f5, King h2. Stone: King h8.
It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
The rain stops, but water covers everything.
7654321fghGold: Scout g5, Judge h5, King g1. Stone: Tower f8, King g8.
The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.
A dove flies out over the flood.
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654321fghGold: Judge h6, King f1. Stone: King h8, Shepherd h7.
He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground…
A rainbow, and a promise that lasts forever.
2345678hgGold: King g8, Scout g4, Judge h4. Stone: Shepherd h2, King h1.
I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
CreationHow each piece moves · 7 puzzles
ExodusMate in 2 · 41 puzzles
JerichoBack-rank mates · 40 puzzles
Gideon’s 300Sacrifices that win · 40 puzzles
David and GoliathPromote to win · 40 puzzles
Wisdom of SolomonQuiet moves · 40 puzzles
EstherBold sacrifices · 40 puzzles
DanielSmothered mates · 39 puzzles
The ProphetsMate in 4 and 5 · 50 puzzles