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Nine Coins

pennies
Divide a sheet of paper into twenty-five squares.
Place eight pennies on squares 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9.
Place 1 nickel on square 5.

Challenge:
In four moves, remove eight pennies and leave the nickel in the central square.
Rules:
Remove the pennies by jumping one over another to the vacant square. (Just like Checkers!)
Remove the pennies that have been jumped over.
Jump in any direction.
Any number of jumps in succession with the same coin counts as one move.

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