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A [FiveThirtyEight]( email [Popular This Week] Sunday, July 25, 2021 [1. Are You A Gen-Z Republican? A Democrat In A Rural State? If So, You Might Be A Political Anomaly, And We Want To Hear From You.]( [Side view of young man walking on blue grid]( [Read more]( [2. Caeleb Dressel Isn’t Just The Next Michael Phelps. He Might Be Even Better.]( [2021 U.S. Olympic Trials – Swimming – Day 8]( [Read more]( [3. How We’re Projecting Each Country’s Medal Count In Tokyo]( [MEDAL-TRACKER-STORY-4×3]( [Read more]( [4. How The World Feels About Holding The Tokyo Olympics Amid COVID-19]( [0723_POLLA-4×3]( [Read more]( [5. We’re Looking For A Data Visualization Intern]( [Read more]( [6. We’re Looking For A Politics Intern]( [Read more]( [7. Giannis Antetokounmpo Has Gone Where Few Players Have Before]( [2021 NBA Finals – Game Six]( [Read more]( [8. Why Biden’s Approval Rating Has Barely Budged In His First 6 Months]( [President Biden Speaks On The American Rescue Plan At White House]( [Read more]( [9. Every Olympic ‘Sport,’ In One Chart]( [OLYMPICS-TIMELINE_4x3]( [Read more]( [10. The Best All-Time Performance In Olympic Softball Belongs To An American Pitcher]( [Fernandez of the US celebrateS Olympic gold medal softball victory over Australia in Athens.]( [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Listen [Play]( [Politics Podcast: The Great Inflation Debate]( Lastly, The Riddler By [Zach Wissner-Gross]( [riddler_4x3_default]( From Tom Hanrahan comes a maze for grandmasters: The following 8-by-8 grid is covered with a total of 64 chess pieces, with one piece on each square. You should begin this puzzle at the white bishop on the green square. You can then move from white piece to white piece via the following rules: - If you are on a pawn, move up one space diagonally (left or right). - If you are on a knight, move in an “L” shape — two spaces up, down, left or right, and then one space in a perpendicular direction. - If you are on a bishop, move one space in any diagonal direction. - If you are on a rook, move one space up, down, left or right. - If you are on a queen, move one space in any direction (horizontal, vertical or diagonal). [Chess board with 64 pieces on it. From left to right in each row, and then top to bottom, the pieces are (b = black, w = white: Kb, Bb, Bw, Bb, Kb, Rw, Bw, Rw Nw, Rw, Nw, Nw, Pw, Kw, Kb, Bw Rw, Pb, Nw, Nb, Pw, Rw, Pw, Rw Pb, Bb, Pw, Rw, Nw, Nw, Rb, Nb Nw, Nw, Nw, Bw, Rw, Bw, Rw, Bw Qw, Rw, Nw, Pw, Rb, Kw, Rw, Qw Bb, Rb, Rw, Pw, Bw*, Pw, Bw, Qw Kb, Bw, Qw, Nw, Pw, Rw, Nw, Nw] For example, suppose your first move from the bishop is diagonally down and to the right. Now you’re at a white rook, so your possible moves are left or up to a pawn or right to a knight. Your objective is to reach one of the four black kings on the grid. However, at no point can you land on any of the other black pieces. (Knights are allowed to hop over the black pieces.) What sequence of moves will allow you to reach a king? [Solve it!]( [FiveThirtyEight] [View in browser]( [ABC News]( [Unsubscribe]( Our mailing address: FiveThirtyEight, 47 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023.