{"id":4666,"date":"2025-11-22T10:47:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/?p=4666"},"modified":"2025-11-22T10:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:47:37","slug":"hangover-clock-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2025\/11\/22\/hangover-clock-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Hangover Clock Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4663\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Hangover-Clock-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Hangover-Clock-Fig2.jpg 402w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Hangover-Clock-Fig2-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>This is another clock puzzle from the 1978 <em>Eureka<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hands on my alarm clock are indistinguishable, and there are no numbers around the outside. Accidentally woken up by it one morning, I observed with a snarl that the hands were both pointing at minute divisions, and that they were 9 minutes apart.<\/p>\n<p>Had it not been for my hangover, what could I have deduced?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Hangover-Clock-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Hangover-Clock-Reading-240704.pdf\">Hangover Clock Reading<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another clock puzzle from the 1978 Eureka magazine. \u201cThe hands on my alarm clock are indistinguishable, and there are no numbers around the outside. Accidentally woken up by it one morning, I observed with a snarl that the hands were both pointing at minute divisions, and that they were 9 minutes apart. Had [&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":[133,198,234,174],"class_list":["post-4666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-algebra","tag-clock-puzzles","tag-eureka-magazine","tag-logic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666","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=4666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}