{"id":4840,"date":"2026-04-25T08:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:14:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:14:55","slug":"clockwise-ant-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/25\/clockwise-ant-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Clockwise Ant Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4838\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Clockwise-Ant-Puzzle-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Clockwise-Ant-Puzzle-Fig2.jpg 398w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Clockwise-Ant-Puzzle-Fig2-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/>This is actually a travel problem masquerading as a clock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/2026\/03\/26\/the-clockwise-ant\/\">puzzle<\/a> from Futility Closet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA problem by Argentinian puzzlist Jaime Poniachik, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Games-Magazine-February-1992-images\/page\/42\/mode\/2up\">February 1992<\/a> issue of <em>Games<\/em> magazine:<\/p>\n<p>An ant crawls onto a clock face at the 6 mark just as the minute hand is passing 12. She begins crawling counterclockwise around the face\u2019s circumference at a uniform speed. When the minute hand passes her, she reverses course and crawls clockwise without changing her speed. Forty-five minutes after her first encounter with the minute hand, it passes her a second time and she departs. How much time did she spend on the clock face?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Clockwise-Ant-Puzzle-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Clockwise-Ant-Puzzle-260328.pdf\">Clockwise Ant Puzzle<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is actually a travel problem masquerading as a clock puzzle from Futility Closet. \u201cA problem by Argentinian puzzlist Jaime Poniachik, from the February 1992 issue of Games magazine: An ant crawls onto a clock face at the 6 mark just as the minute hand is passing 12. She begins crawling counterclockwise around the face\u2019s [&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":[198,16,81],"class_list":["post-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-clock-puzzles","tag-futility-closet","tag-travel-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","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=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4843,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}