Say you have a standard 8 x 8 checkerboard, which alternates checker squares in red and black, totaling 64 total squares. Each is 1 in2.
You must physically remove square #1 (in the uppermost left of the board) and square #64 (in the bottom right).
You also have 100 2" x 1" in dominoes. If you can fully cover the remaining checkerboard in a single layer of dominoes, you will win $10 million.
What does your domino pattern look like?
Solution
By nature, this puzzle is impossible to solve with a single layer of flat dominoes. Codemaster in comment #4 is the first to identify that. Honorable mention to the outside the box answer proposed by Printmeister. Tornado found a possible loophole, that's fun, I guess; good work.
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