I enjoy puzzles. And I enjoy programming. In my Furcadia dreams, those two things came together.
I owe a lot to Graphite, who was not only a major inspiration to me and created my favourite dream on Furcadia ever, but also gave his plessing to me to use puzzles from his old dreams—namely, The Puzzler’s Mansion (his Wolf Howl 2003 entry), Tricks for Treats (his Wolf Howl 2004 entry), and Jujinka’s Playground (his Jujinka Festival 2005 entry).
The Knight’s Tour is a classic chess puzzle. In chess, the knight can move two spaces horizontally and one vertically, or one horizontally, and two vertically. In The Knight’s Tour, you have to visit each square of a chessboard exactly once.
In this dream, I have no fewer than 13 boards of different sizes from the 1×1 board (which is in the dream as a joke) and the 3×4 board (the smallest that can be actually toured) to the 15×15 board, and even the odd-shaped Tamerlane Chess Board, and my dream webpage has solutions for all of them (except the 1×1 board, which doesn’t need a walkthrough).
I really enjoyed creating this dream, in which someone had to complete all puzzles. Originally, I intended to create sort of a scoreboard where people could post their scores, but I never did figure out how to pull off a link that would automatically add a score to the site. The idea was that the fewer hints you used, the higher your score and if you used no hints, you got a fireworks display. If I ever recode that dream, I’d remove the hints system.
If you include Puzzle Palace Mark II—the version that was on Furcadia from March 2010 until 2019—this dream is over a decade old, even though this iteration (Puzzle Palace Mark VI) only dates from 2019. The puzzles here can be done in any order; this is just a dream made for fun.
The walkthrough is so large that it was broken down into several sections. The Chess Hunt even got a walkthrough all its own.
If you include Puzzle Palace Mark II—the version that was on Furcadia from March 2010 until 2019—this dream is over a decade old, even though this iteration (Puzzle Palace Mark VI) only dates from 2019. The puzzles here can be done in any order; this is just a dream made for fun.
The walkthrough is so large that it was broken down into several sections. The Chess Hunt even got a walkthrough all its own.