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Beware of these subtle mates !

First thought was, Q sac! XD

Took me a bit of thought to find the right move, good one I thought

O/k, it's a given that the first move needs to be check but you still have to calculate which one of the two moves works, so certainly worth 2 stars. I'm pretty sure a lot of people tried the Qxh6 sac. first.
A little surprised the solved is quite so high.

Always good to see a puzzle from someone's actual game. Great going bobbob78!

The Queen sac is ruled out fairly quickly, as it is clear that there is no possible mate with the two rooks, especially given the two black rooks on the seventh rank.

A question, perhaps someone can answer it. 4.Rxg8# is an alternate solution as far as I can tell, yet the puzzle engine does not accept it as such ...

I went back and tried the rook as the final move and it was accepted for me. Maybe your mouse slipped. I do agree that this is a 1 star puzzle, one of the easiest I've seen here in a while.

If they are over 100000 puzzles in the queue and they are only 2 published per day , it is going to take over a century for you to see yours. Simple calculation !! Just be patient folks, you might live 200 years like a turtle!!

I don't really understand why most are waiting for random puzzles to show up at the frontpage. As mbomb007 notices, the vast majority have already been available for many years via gameknot.com. You can sort and filter the columns in all sorts of ways

Easy but essential!

This sort of mate occurs quite often. It's important to learn the various threats, including qh6-f8 mating ideas and black's defensive ideas such as Qe6-g8 which is insufficient this time but often ruins white's attack.

My point regarding the "alternate solution" Rxg8# was not that it does not work, but the fact that it even exists. I was of the understanding that puzzles with alternate solutions are "busted" and not eligible for puzzle of the day. When I look at the "all moves graph" , it is not even listed as an alternate move, but when I try to enter it using the "alternate solution" menu, it tells me it has already been entered.