Knight's Tour
two squares one way, one to the side

Play Knight's Tour — Knight Move Puzzles

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Tap a glowing square to moveUndo steps back

How to play Knight's Tour

The knight is the odd one out on a chessboard: it moves two squares in one direction and then one to the side, an L-shape, and jumps over anything in its way. You don't need to know chess — the glowing dots show every square it can reach.

Some goals ask you to collect stars, in any order or in number order, sometimes within a move limit or in the fewest moves possible. The full tour asks for every square exactly once — a puzzle mathematicians have studied for centuries. The closed tour must also end one jump from where it began, and return.

Every puzzle is checked to have a route before you see it.

How to play Knight's Tour

Move the knight in its L-shaped jump to reach the targets — or visit every square of the board exactly once.

The rules

  1. The knight moves two squares in one direction (up, down, left or right) and then one square at a right angle — an L-shape. It jumps over anything in between.
  2. It must stay on the board and cannot land on a blocked square.
  3. Goals: collect every star (any order or in number order), do it within a move limit or in the fewest moves, come back to the start, or visit every open square once (a tour). A closed tour ends back on the start square.
  4. In star goals you may land on a square more than once; in tours you may not.

Playing here

  1. Choose a goal — collect the stars, in number order, in the fewest moves, collect and return home, or visit every square — a board and a level.
  2. Tap a glowing square to move the knight there. The knight jumps in an L and can fly over anything.
  3. Stars are collected when the knight lands on them. Dark squares are blocked. Undo steps back a move.
  4. Hint shows the next move on a shortest route, or a move from which the tour can still be finished.

Tips

The full guide, with a worked example and common mistakes: How to play Knight's Tour.

Questions

Do I need to know chess?

No. The board shows every square the knight can reach from where it is.

Is there a tour on every board?

No — there is none on 4×4, and a closed tour needs an even number of squares, so the board choices change with the goal.

What are Movement Patterns?

The same idea with invented pieces — a frog, a robot, a rocket — each with its own move. Try Movement Patterns.

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