{"id":591,"date":"2006-08-26T16:02:51","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T21:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=591"},"modified":"2006-08-26T16:10:48","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T21:10:48","slug":"chinese-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Puzzle Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like I&#8217;m not the only one puzzleblogging today. Steven links to <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/Chizumatic\/images\/flash8net_19460.swf\">this insidious game<\/a>.  The first five puzzles are minor speed bumps, and as <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/Chizumatic\/\">Steven<\/a> points out, the sixth one is a wall. A wall five meters tall, utterly smooth, and crowned with barbed wire.  I&#8217;d think it was impossible but Steven has already done it.  Now the puzzle taunts me. <\/p>\n<p>The fact that the directions are in Chinese should not deter you.  It&#8217;s pretty much intuitive. Besides, I&#8217;m pretty sure that characters just say, &#8220;HA HA! You never solve this one, round-eye!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like I&#8217;m not the only one puzzleblogging today. Steven links to this insidious game. The first five puzzles are minor speed bumps, and as Steven points out, the sixth one is a wall. A wall five meters tall, utterly smooth, and crowned with barbed wire. I&#8217;d think it was impossible but Steven has already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}