256.--THE DIAMOND PUZZLE.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

IN how many different ways may the word DIAMOND be read in the arrangement shown? You may start wherever you like at a D and go up or down, backwards or forwards, in and out, in any direction you like, so long as you always pass from one letter to another that adjoins it. How many ways are there?

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