{"id":4834,"date":"2026-04-18T08:41:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:41:44","slug":"ship-and-seaplane-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/18\/ship-and-seaplane-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ship and Seaplane Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4831\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ship-and-Seaplane-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ship-and-Seaplane-Fig2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ship-and-Seaplane-Fig2-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>This is a puzzle from Boris Kordemsky\u2019s 1972 <em>Moscow Puzzles<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA diesel ship leaves on a long voyage. When it is 180 miles from shore, a seaplane, whose speed is ten times that of the ship, is sent to deliver mail. How far from shore does the seaplane catch up with the ship?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ship-and-Seaplane-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ship-and-Seaplane-Puzzle-251117.pdf\">Ship and Seaplane Puzzle<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a puzzle from Boris Kordemsky\u2019s 1972 Moscow Puzzles. \u201cA diesel ship leaves on a long voyage. When it is 180 miles from shore, a seaplane, whose speed is ten times that of the ship, is sent to deliver mail. How far from shore does the seaplane catch up with the ship?\u201d Answer. See [&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":[133,280,81],"class_list":["post-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-algebra","tag-moscow-puzzles","tag-travel-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834","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=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4835,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/4835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}