{"id":154,"date":"2006-11-07T00:38:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T07:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/seattle\/154"},"modified":"2006-11-07T00:38:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T07:38:47","slug":"a-chef-walks-into-a-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"A Chef Walks Into a Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/laurenlavoie.com\/\">Lauren<\/a> and participated in a geek event at Microsoft called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironpuzzler.com\/Overview.html\">Iron Puzzler<\/a>. It involves a day of writing two puzzles (one &#8220;paper based&#8221; and one &#8220;non paper based&#8221;). Game control released the four &#8220;secret ingredients&#8221; on Saturday morning (of which we had to incorporate at least 1-2 of in our puzzles):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spoon<\/li>\n<li>The letter L<\/li>\n<li>Clock<\/li>\n<li>Mercury<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For our non-paper puzzle, we wrote a <a href=\"\/wp-content\/iron.exe\">text-based adventure game<\/a> (think something in between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zork\">Zork<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monkey_Island_series\">Monkey Island<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It got rave reviews by the participants of Iron Puzzler, so if you want to check it out (and trust me enough to download an exe :)) I&#8217;ve posted the <a href=\"\/wp-content\/iron.exe\">game<\/a> and <a href=\"\/wp-content\/IronReadme.pdf\">README<\/a>.  Be ready for mass amounts of silliness!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-images\/blog\/ironPuzzlerGame.JPG\" alt=\"Our text adventure game\" class=\"thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Lauren and participated in a geek event at Microsoft called Iron Puzzler. It involves a day of writing two puzzles (one &#8220;paper based&#8221; and one &#8220;non paper based&#8221;). Game control released the four &#8220;secret ingredients&#8221; on Saturday morning (of which we had to incorporate at least 1-2 of in our puzzles): Spoon The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}