The almost impossible chessboard puzzle

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Check out the meta-solution on 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTJI_WuZSwE Thanks to Gordon' s Wine Bar for letting us film in their bar. Ha! It wasn't a dungeon, it was a wine bar all along! (An amazing wine bar at that; definitely visit it next time you're in London (and things are open again)). https://www.gordonswinebar.com/ Also: this was filmed back in February 2020 pre-coronavirus (at least before we knew about it). Which is why we're sat so close together and not wearing masks. And people are phoning a wine bar. For those of you want it all, and you want it now, we've put the complete, unedited footage of Matt and Grant completing the puzzle scenario on Matt's second channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEDZyK8UL6M We'll put the deleted footage on the Stand-up Maths patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39003911 Sorry the audio is a bit hit and miss. Matt's microphone dropped out for a bit so we tried to rescue the audio from Grant's lapel mic. With some success. Puzzle as emailed by Grant to Matt: Prisoner 1 walks in, sees a chessboard where each square has a coin on top, flipped either to heads or tails. The warden places the key under one of the squares, which prisoner 1 sees. Before he leaves, he must turn over one and only one coin. Prisoner 2 then walks in and is supposed to be able to figure out which squares the key is in just by looking at the arrangement of coins. This is the website Matt mentioned with a full breakdown of th

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