Welcome to #CheckIn for FRIDAY, 2024-08-16

I like to start each day with some puzzles, to wake my brain up. There's a new one now daily on LinkedIn called "Queens". It's a variant on the chessboard problem of placing 8 queens on the board such that none is able to attack any of the others. This variant maintains the separate ranks & files for each queen, but switches up colored regions for the diagonals. Example:

What gets your mental pump primed?

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