MiniChess

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Play Sounds (cheering)
Show Move Counter
Show Congratulations
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Show Correct Path If you don't find the shortest path solution, show arrows showing a possible solution once the puzzle is finished.
Show Dots Toggle whether dots are displayed showing where you can move to. If you want to challenge yourself, turn the dots off and try to make it in the minimum moves :)

How to Play

The aim of the game is to get your piece (the pawn - in white) to the goal square (circled square). There are rocks (in gray) on the board, those squares you cannot move through. For pawn levels, there are also smoothies. Pawns can move into a square with a smoothie if it's on a forward diagonal (see the image).

Pawns can move straight up the board and also capture diagonally forward. Pawns always start on the second row and if there are no obstructions they can move two spaces forward on their first move.

Rocks (grey squares) block your path – you can’t move through them.

Click on the piece to see the squares it can move to.

How the pawn moves

The pawn moves straight forward one square at a time, and only forward. On its very first move it may go two squares. It captures differently from how it moves: one square diagonally forward. It can never move backwards.

In these puzzles you walk a pawn up the board to the goal square. The wall pawns are rocks you can't take, and the pawn can't step sideways, so when a rock is straight ahead the only way on is to capture one of the black knights diagonally.

Tip: a pawn that is blocked straight ahead is stuck unless it can capture. Before you move, look at what is diagonally in front of you.