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2026-09-01

@nick: I make it 3, 38, and 153. Plus you'll need 95 boxes for the 8th moves.

There's pdfs of the positions you'll need in this folder if its helpful: https://github.com/mscroggs/MENACE-pdf... - they're in the files called second_boxes*.pdf

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