{"id":273,"date":"2025-05-27T19:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/?post_type=puzzles&#038;p=273"},"modified":"2025-05-27T19:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:51:14","slug":"puzzle-dad","status":"publish","type":"puzzles","link":"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/puzzles\/puzzle-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle Dad"},"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:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"838\" src=\"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PuzzleDad2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PuzzleDad2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PuzzleDad2-179x300.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>Puzzle Dad is a manipulation puzzle produced by Professor Puzzle.  It consists on the equivalence of 27 cubes linked by elastic that can be manipulated into a 3x3x3 cube.  The puzzle starts of in the shape of a man or &#8216;Dad&#8217; and needs to be folded up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this puzzle has a different reason for existing. It is a &#8216;Fathers Day&#8217; present, or any other of Dad&#8217;s special days. This does not diminish it as a puzzle, it probably improves it by wrapping a story around it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PuzzleDad1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PuzzleDad1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PuzzleDad1-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\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 3,4,4. The presentation is quite kitsch but it doesn&#8217;t carry over into artistic merit in this case. Good try though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e137c5d911d\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Solution (Spoilers - click to reveal)\"    >Solution (Spoilers - click to reveal)<\/span><div id=\"target-id69e137c5d911d\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PuzzleDadSol.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PuzzleDadSol.jpg 500w, https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PuzzleDadSol-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not a full solution, but I think the image will help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":275,"template":"","class_list":["post-273","puzzles","type-puzzles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","puzzle_category-manipulation-puzzles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/puzzles\/273","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\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/siab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}