{"id":131,"date":"2024-05-07T09:05:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T09:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/?post_type=puzzles&#038;p=131"},"modified":"2024-05-11T07:32:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T07:32:01","slug":"the-snow-flake-game","status":"publish","type":"puzzles","link":"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/puzzles\/the-snow-flake-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Snow Flake Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>When our children were young we liked to get involved with the Parents Association and their Summer Fares and Winter Fares. We would run a puzzle stall. We had puzzles that the children could try and solve within a set amount of time. This is one of them that was used at a lot of winter fares. Its a packing puzzle, the aim is to use the fourteen pieces to completely cover the central area. This puzzle was designed and made by ourselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/snowflake2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/snowflake3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The puzzle is based on circles and the gaps between the circles. If you  add the curved triangles to the circles you can get shapes that cover the area. Each circle is surrounded by six triangles.  So each circle can have between 0 and 6 triangles. This leads to 14 unique pieces. 12 are symmetrical and 2 asymmetrical that are mirror images.  Turning the curved sided triangles into straight sided triangles, the 14 shapes fit together to fully cover the area shown in the puzzle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Artistic Ratings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ratings I have chosen for this puzzle is 6,8,9.\u00a0 OK, I am a bit bias.  The rugged construction survived lots of speed attempts to solve it.  The high design rating is because the 14 pieces form a complete set and the area to cover is elegantly symetrical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e16376a397c\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"&lt;strong&gt;Solution (Spoilers - click to reveal)&lt;\/strong&gt;\"    ><strong>Solution (Spoilers - click to reveal)<\/strong><\/span><div id=\"target-id69e16376a397c\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/snowflake1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":133,"template":"","class_list":["post-131","puzzles","type-puzzles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","puzzle_category-packing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/puzzles\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/puzzles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/puzzles"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}