Four Basic 16-Move Closed Mini Knight's Tours

The following Four Basic 16-Move Closed Mini Knight's Tours can be seen in thousands of Knight's Tours, and you have probably seen them used many times throughout this website. I will show you various combinations of these four basic tours, and then how they can be used modularly to make other size tours. The combinations shown here are not exhaustive but used only as examples. By using these mini tours, you can experiment making additional combinations.

Four Basic 16-Move Closed Mini Knight's Tours

16-Move Mini Knight's Tour-1

16-Move Mini Knight's Tour-2

16-Move Mini Knight's Tour-3

16-Move Mini Knight's Tour-4

Double-Stacked Mini Knight's Tours with one each Rotated Horizontally.

Horizontally Stacked Mini Tours-1

Horizontally Stacked Mini Tours-2

Horizontally Stacked Mini Tours-3

Horizontally Stacked Mini Tours-4

Double-Stacked Mini Knight's Tours with one each Rotated Horizontally and 90 degrees left.

90 Degrees Stacked Mini Tours-1

90 Degrees Stacked Mini Tours-2

90 Degrees Stacked Mini Tours-3

90 Degrees Stacked Mini Tours-4

Double-Stacked Mini Knight's Tours with one each Rotated Horizontally and 180 degrees.

180 Degrees Stacked Mini Tours-1

180 Degrees Stacked Mini Tours-2

180 Degrees Stacked Mini Tours-3

180 Degrees Stacked Mini Tours-4

Various Combinations of Mini Knight's Tours

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-1

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-2

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-3

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-4

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-5

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-6

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-7

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-8

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-9

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-10

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-11

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-12

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-13

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-14

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-15

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-16

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-17

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-18

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-19

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-20

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-21

Combined Mini Knight's Tour-22

To see how the Combined Mini Knight's Tour-20 shown above was used to create an Order 16 Magic Square Closed Knight's Tour where all rows, columns, and major diagonals each add up to 2056, check out Reconstruction of de Vasa's Magic Knight's Tour.

Notice how Combined Mini Knight's Tour-21 and Tour-22 look like the letters "I" and "U."  Go to my I-N-C-U-H webpage to see how those two mini-tours can be manipulated to create a new alphabet, ciphers, or codes.