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To supplement Per Alexandersson's and Aaron Golden's data, here are two distributions for $4$ rooks on a $4 \times 4$ board (mean: 21.5 moves), and $8$ rooks on an $8 \times 8$ board (mean: 73.6 moves):
     4x4

     8x8
10,000 trials each. Now updated to count only moves that actually move a rook! Here is a $4 \times 4$ example that took $19$ moves.
     Example

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To supplement Per Alexandersson's and Aaron Golden's data, here are two distributions for $4$ rooks on a $4 \times 4$ board (mean: 31 21.5 moves), and $8$ rooks on an $8 \times 8$ board (mean: 95 73.6 moves):
     4x4

     8x8
10,000 trials each. Now updated to count only moves that actually move a rook!

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