{"id":1618,"date":"2020-05-23T14:38:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T18:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2024-04-08T19:12:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T23:12:24","slug":"fallen-clock-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/23\/fallen-clock-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen Clock Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2198\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Fallen-Clock-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Fallen-Clock-Fig2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Fallen-Clock-Fig2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Fallen-Clock-Fig2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>This is a nice variation on the typical clock problem posed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmal1102\/status\/1222962762889846784\">Cary Mallon<\/a> and retweeted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HenkReuling\">Henk Reuling<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis clock has fallen on the floor, and unfortunately, there is no indication which way \u2018up\u2019 the clock should hang.\u00a0 However, both hands are pointing <em>precisely<\/em> at the [adjacent] minute marks.\u00a0 You can now work out what the time is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Fallen-Clock-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Fallen-Clock-Puzzle-200213.pdf\">Fallen Clock Puzzle<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a nice variation on the typical clock problem posed by Cary Mallon and retweeted by Henk Reuling: \u201cThis clock has fallen on the floor, and unfortunately, there is no indication which way \u2018up\u2019 the clock should hang.\u00a0 However, both hands are pointing precisely at the [adjacent] minute marks.\u00a0 You can now work out [&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":[198,199],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-clock-puzzles","tag-henk-reuling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","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=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3754,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}