LESSON 7

Counting steps

Mae's Detective School · Detective Starter Kit (10 free cases)

Counting steps is just walking: no hopping, no diagonals.

'4 steps from' counts squares up, down, left or right. Turns are fine, diagonals are not. Count through walls and objects too.

So '4 steps from the X' is a diamond around the X: for example 4 across, or 3 across and 1 down, or 2 and 2.

Put your pencil on the object and count out the diamond. Then cross out what lies in taken rows and columns.

In your Detective's Dictionary

4 steps from4 squares, no diagonals. Count through walls and objects.

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