Puzzle of the Spider and the Ladybird


: : The Rules : :
Position 5 Spiders & 3 Ladybirds, no more than 1 to each square
so that the Spiders cannot attack the Ladybirds.
The Ladybirds cannot move.
The Spiders can move up, down, left, and right and any diagonal,
same as the Queen in chess.
There are
16 possible answers that I Know of.
If you think you know one or more, E-Mail the co-ordinates
I.E. as in the example graphic. Obviously this example does not work
so you must rearange them correctly to achieve the desired result.

include your name and E-mail address and it will be added to  Mauro's 'Halll of fame' below

"Spiders  A5  B4 C3  D2  E1" *** "Ladybirds   B2  C4 D3"  ECT,

 

 A

 B

 C

 D

 E

 

 

 1

 2

 3

 4

 5

         
 

 
     
     

 
 
   

 
   
         

 
: : Mauro's HomePage Hall of Fame : :

Joshua Reid aged 10 Auckland New Zealand joshua@eganreid.co.nz
Gerard Reid Auckland New Zealand <gerard@eganreid.co.nz>
Athol Redwood Auckland New Zealand <athol.redwood@xtra.co.nz>
Luigino De Mario Bournemouth England <dema42hunt@care4free.net>
TONY Zanderigo.Iona Canberra Australia <tony.zanderigo@deetya.gov.au>
Rosella Monaghan Onehunga New Zealand <glanton@zfree.co.nz>
Chris Barnett One Tree Hill New Zealand <visionscape@clear.net.nz>
John Porter Herne Bay New Zealand jp@clear.net.nz
Lisa Zanderigo.Iona <lzanderi@mail.usyd.edu.au>Sydney Australia
David Kuridza Henderson New Zealand <dkuridza@ihug.co.nz.
Thanh Nguyen New York U.S.A <hamed012@home.com>
Clem Favaro Treviso Italy <nelfav@tin.it
Daniele Vettoretti Mosco Russia <dvettoretti@colpal.com.
John Batistic Henderson New Zealand <johnbat@ihug.co.nz>
Gregory DeMario Bournemouth England <greg@dema59.freeserve.co.uk>
Professor Giovanni Finzi-Contini Pisa Italy <gfinzic@dicea.unifi.it>
Angela Maria Zanderigo.Iona Auckland New Zealand <angiz@paradise.net.nz>
Marc Zanderigo <marcz@aloha.net> Hawaai
Grace Browne <zenbro@ihug.co.nz>
Paul Sheehan <pauls@pos.co.il> Isreal
Paul Tavan <Paul.Tavan@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE> Germany
Stuart Barnaby <Stu@dvt.co.nz> Auckland New Zeqland
Roland Steindl <r.steindl@xpoint.at> Austria
Murray McCallum <macair@universal.net.au> Australia

Daniel Mesnage <dan@eganreid.co.nz>
(Dan is the first to return a new set of coordinates plus its own 3 variants.
Congratulations Dan, We now have 8 solutions)

Gareth Cooke <gmcooke@ihug.go.nz>
(Congratulations - Gareth has topped the pole today with 8 new solutions)

Always under Construction as at March 20 2004
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