Squares in Chess Board

In the attached figure, you can see a chessboard and two rooks placed on the chess board. What you have to find is the number of squares that do not contain the rooks. How many are there?

Squares in Chess Board




Similar Riddles

Forwards I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 01 Aug 2025


What number comes next in the series?

5 15 5 18 5 24 14 20 _

Asked by Neha on 15 Jun 2023

Akbar summoned Birbal out of anger.
He told him that he will have to face death.
He asked him to make a statement and if the statement is true he will be buried alive and if the statement is false, he will be thrown at lions.
After hearing Birbal’s statement, Akbar could do nothing but smile.
He gave him 5 gold bars and let him go.

What did Birbal say?

Asked by Neha on 17 May 2021


What is the word or phrase?

What is the phrase?

Asked by Neha on 04 Oct 2024

A kind heart person buy packed food at 3$/packet from United states and sells them at 1$/packet at Africa. After some time he becomes a millionaire.

How come the guy become millionaire ?

Asked by Neha on 30 Jan 2023

John is a strange liar.

He lies on six days of the week, but on the seventh day, he always tells the truth.

He made the following statements on three successive days:

Day 1: "I lie on Monday and Tuesday."
Day 2: "Today, it"s Thursday, Saturday, or Sunday."
Day 3: "I lie on Wednesday and Friday."

On which day does John tell the truth?

Asked by Neha on 27 Feb 2025


Every words stands for unique digit that makes the arithmetic equation true

SEVEN + SEVEN + SIX = TWENTY.

What are the digits ?

Asked by Neha on 31 Jan 2021

Can you replace the question mark with the correct number?

Fill in the Question Marked Space

Asked by Neha on 09 Mar 2024

What makes this number unique: 8,549,176,320?

Asked by Neha on 08 Jul 2025


You Throw The Outside, Cook The Inside
Eat The Outside, Throw The Inside.

What Is It?

Asked by Neha on 27 Jun 2023

Hot Articles

Amazing Facts

Word ladder puzzle

The word ladder puzzle was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.