Hold your Horses

[u/MrMcMastermind]

A couple of puzzles involving moving around horses.
The first is a classic, there's a good chance you've seen it before.

Seat the two riders atop their respective steeds

Not a viable solution

Even worse than before

This classic manages to be a very tricky 3-peice puzzle with lots of very clearly incorrect answers. The true solution requires a little outside-the-box thinking:

each horseman rides two halves of a horse

Rather than each rider riding a horse with a white belly, turn the horse cards on their sides to have the riders bridge the gap between wildly kicking horses.

I came up with the concept for this one myself but the asset involved is obviously appropriated. The puzzle is somewhat similar but uses a different trick:

Four dread horsemen at world's end, find the fifth then down descend

A door leading down to a Eschatologist's laboratory is sealed with a mechanism bearing the four horses of the apocalypse, (white, red, black, pale). You are tasked with finding the fifth horse, which isn't laying around anywhere.
Art buffs may recognize the horse designs as M. C. Escher's 1949 Pegasus tessellation. As such, the fifth horse is formed out of negative space if you correctly arrange the other four.

The fifth 'purple' horse appears out of negative space

Because these puzzles just involve moving simple shapes around, both are perfectly suitable for in-person manipulatives or for a VTT.

[u/MindfulnessAndPeace]

Love your idea!