234.--THE EXCHANGE PUZZLE.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

Here is a rather entertaining little puzzle with moving counters. You only need twelve counters--six of one colour, marked A, C, E, G, I, and K, and the other six marked B, D, F, H, J, and L. You first place them on the diagram, as shown in the illustration, and the puzzle is to get them into regular alphabetical order, as follows:--

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