{"id":4334,"date":"2025-03-22T13:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2025-03-22T13:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:44:30","slug":"a-number-maze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/22\/a-number-maze\/","title":{"rendered":"A Number Maze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4332\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Number-Maze-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Number-Maze-Fig2.jpg 398w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Number-Maze-Fig2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Number-Maze-Fig2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Here is an entertaining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/2025\/02\/20\/a-number-maze\/\">puzzle<\/a> from <em>Futility Closet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy Wikimedia user Efbrazil. Begin at the star. The number at your current position tells you the number of blocks that your next jump must span. All jumps must be orthogonal. So, for example, your first jump must take you to the 1 in the lower left corner or the 2 in the upper right. What sequence of jumps will return you to the star?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Number-Maze-250220.pdf\">A Number Maze<\/a> for solutions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an entertaining puzzle from Futility Closet. \u201cBy Wikimedia user Efbrazil. Begin at the star. The number at your current position tells you the number of blocks that your next jump must span. All jumps must be orthogonal. So, for example, your first jump must take you to the 1 in the lower left [&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":[16,283],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-futility-closet","tag-maze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","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=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4336,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}