{"id":4541,"date":"2023-04-20T16:02:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T20:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2023-06-30T18:59:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T22:59:37","slug":"elementary-creature-cards-a-funny-game-of-math-and-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2023\/04\/20\/elementary-creature-cards-a-funny-game-of-math-and-logic\/","title":{"rendered":"Elementary creature cards: a funny game of math and logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to track down physical <strong>creature cards<\/strong>, a logic puzzle that started w\/ the <em>Elementary Science Study<\/em> project (in Newton!) &amp; was riffed on for decades.\u00a0 The visual and mathematical puzzles became quite involved; including combinations of shading, geometry, topology, number theory, and more.\u00a0 Creatures were also creatively named:\u00a0Mokes, Snorpes, Gligs, Wibbles, Shlooms, Bleeps, Quarks, Trugs, Zyzzes, Mellinarks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you run across these somewhere, please reach out and get in touch.\u00a0 I would like to reprint some of the professionally done sequences, and perhaps expand on the idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/siemianowski.weebly.com\/uploads\/5\/7\/7\/5\/5775949\/creaturescards.pdf\">Example<\/a>\u00a0(via Amber Case).<\/p>\n<p>Discussion:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/metasj\/status\/1584695567846109184<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to track down physical creature cards, a logic puzzle that started w\/ the Elementary Science Study project (in Newton!) &amp; was riffed on for decades.\u00a0 The visual and mathematical puzzles became quite involved; including combinations of shading, geometry, topology, number theory, and more.\u00a0 Creatures were also creatively named:\u00a0Mokes, Snorpes, Gligs, Wibbles, Shlooms, Bleeps, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[210,78850,78788,78819],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang","category-noetic","category-seraphic","category-zyzzylvania"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-1bf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4596,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions\/4596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}