{"id":1388,"date":"2019-12-20T08:34:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T13:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2019-12-20T08:34:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T13:34:37","slug":"geometric-puzzle-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/20\/geometric-puzzle-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Geometric Puzzle Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1386 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Geometric-Puzzle-Madness-Fig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Geometric-Puzzle-Madness-Fig.jpg 600w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Geometric-Puzzle-Madness-Fig-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>I have been subverted again by a recent post by Ben Orlin, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mathwithbaddrawings.com\/2019\/12\/09\/geometry-puzzles-for-a-winters-day\/\">Geometry Puzzles for a Winter\u2019s Day<\/a>,\u201d which is another collection of Catriona Shearer\u2019s geometric puzzles, this time her favorites for the month of November 2019 (which Orlin seems to have named himself). I often visit Orlin\u2019s blog, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mathwithbaddrawings.com\/\">Math with Bad Drawings<\/a>\u201d, so it is hard to kick my addiction to Shearer\u2019s puzzles if he keeps presenting collections. Her production volume is amazing, especially as she is able to maintain the quality that makes her problems so special.<\/p>\n<p>The Stained Glass puzzle generated some discussion about needed constraints to ensure a solution. Essentially, it was agreed to make explicit that the drawing had vertical and horizontal symmetry in the shapes, that is, flipping it horizontally or vertically kept the same shapes, though some of the colors might be swapped.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Geometric-Puzzle-Madness-191215.pdf\">Geometric Puzzle Madness<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been subverted again by a recent post by Ben Orlin, \u201cGeometry Puzzles for a Winter\u2019s Day,\u201d which is another collection of Catriona Shearer\u2019s geometric puzzles, this time her favorites for the month of November 2019 (which Orlin seems to have named himself). I often visit Orlin\u2019s blog, \u201cMath with Bad Drawings\u201d, so it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[169,42,13,41],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-ben-orlin","tag-catriona-agg","tag-plane-geometry","tag-trigonometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}