# Flash Game: Black Knight **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 2, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-game-black-knight/470782 "2008-11-02T23:31:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maui\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Maui\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maui_Lion)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-game-black-knight/470782/1 "2008-11-02T23:31:52Z")
> **[Black Knight - Play on Armor Games](https://armorgames.com/play/2528/black-knight)** > > Black Knight, a free online Puzzle & Skill game brought to you by Armor Games. Black Knight is an isometric strategy game, based on a chess game. > > We play as the black knight and our mission is to kill the white king and reach the star to proceed... The premise is simple. Get your knight chess piece to land perfectly on the star. However, as is knights are programmed to do so, you can only move in their usual L-shaped pattern. Along the way you’ll have to fight off other chess pieces out to get you as well. Have fun. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-game-black-knight/470782/2 "2008-11-03T02:42:33Z")
I can’t figure out 15. The bishop is protecting every spot you can attack the king from. ---
**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-game-black-knight/470782/3 "2008-11-03T04:34:40Z")
If you move in front of him, he’ll slide forward and you can kill him. I haven’t figured out what the exact triggers that make the pieces move forward are. (Except the pawns, which they tell you right out.) ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-game-black-knight/470782/4 "2008-11-03T04:38:42Z")
I just beat it, but I haven’t figured out exactly how to force a move, other than it works in some directions and not in others. I think I scored about 1453. It reminds me a lot of that game Blox or Bloxors, where you have to flip the piece on end or on its side. It essentially moves the same way a knight does; you have to back it out into a bigger space to turn it around in order to have the right “angle of attack”. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-game-black-knight/470782/5 "2008-11-05T06:48:38Z")
I can’t make it play at all. Anyone care to walk me through the initial steps? ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-game-black-knight/470782/6 "2008-11-05T17:23:32Z")
What specific problem are you having, Oslo? Click on the squares indicated by a red arrow to move to them. I was severely annoyed when I discovered you can’t jump over opposing pieces. I expect a knight in a game to behave like the chess piece. There are similar knight’s tour mazes (but without opposing pieces) at Clickmazes [here](http://www.clickmazes.com/ktour/ixktour.htm). ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-game-black-knight/470782/7 "2008-11-07T02:53:28Z")
I got 972. The last level is a bitch. You just have to move around a bunch and hope that the random computer will be stupid faster than you get trapped. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-game-black-knight/470782/8 "2008-11-07T05:17:24Z")
I got 872. Like **iamthewalrus(:3=**, I found the last level to be a pain, since the random movement often traps you through no fault of your own.