{"id":2354,"date":"2021-08-28T08:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T12:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2021-08-28T08:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T12:26:03","slug":"topple-blocks-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/28\/topple-blocks-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Topple Blocks Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2352\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Topple-Blocks-Fig2-1024x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Topple-Blocks-Fig2-1024x466.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Topple-Blocks-Fig2-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Topple-Blocks-Fig2-768x350.jpg 768w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Topple-Blocks-Fig2-624x284.jpg 624w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Topple-Blocks-Fig2.jpg 1203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is another imaginative puzzle from MEI\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MEIMaths\/status\/1411973124619337735\">MathsMonday<\/a>.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know what topple blocks were at first, but a previous MathsMonday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MEIMaths\/status\/1404362986295336962\">puzzle<\/a> defined them as shown in the first frame.\u00a0 Apparently they derive from the game of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jenga\">Jenga<\/a> created by Leslie Scott and launched in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Topple-Blocks-Puzzle-210709.pdf\">Topple Blocks Puzzle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another imaginative puzzle from MEI\u2019s MathsMonday.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know what topple blocks were at first, but a previous MathsMonday puzzle defined them as shown in the first frame.\u00a0 Apparently they derive from the game of Jenga created by Leslie Scott and launched in 1983. See the Topple Blocks Puzzle<\/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":[213,13,223,41],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-mathsmonday","tag-plane-geometry","tag-topple-blocks","tag-trigonometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","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=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}