Knight's Tour, Tourist's Drive

Using network maps the same problem can be shown in two different ways.

How it works

Take the knight piece on a tour of the board. If that is too difficult there is an easier tourist drive to complete.

Things to Try or ask around the exhibit

  • Can you use the numbers on the Tourist’s Drive to complete the Knight’s Tour?

Background

The Tourist’s Drive is a network map of the Knight’s Tour. It is just a different way of showing the connections between each move.

Finding the science in your world

Network mapping is used to visualise very big and complicated networks, such as the internet.

On Display