{"id":333,"date":"2012-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2012\/10\/16\/snoutcast-139-horseshoes-and-hand-grenades\/"},"modified":"2012-10-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T07:00:00","slug":"snoutcast-139-horseshoes-and-hand-grenades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2012\/10\/16\/snoutcast-139-horseshoes-and-hand-grenades\/","title":{"rendered":"SnoutCast #139: Horseshoes and Hand Grenades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired in part by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/odinshunt\">@OdinsHunt<\/a>, a protracted, spoiler-riddled discussion of a time-honored puzzle tradition: <b>backsolving<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p><small>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/malum-iter.com\/snoutcast\/20121016.mp3\">Download mp3<\/a> &#8211; 36 MB ]<\/small><\/p>\n<p>00:59 &#8211; <i>&#8220;approximate&#8221;<\/i><br \/>02:08 &#8211; hey, remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirrorstage.org\/odinshunt\">Hunt for Odin&#8217;s Horse<\/a> thing?<br \/>04:44 &#8211; on the posting of past puzzles online (<i>e.g.<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzledpint.com\/puzzles\/\">Puzzled Pint<\/a>)<br \/>06:15 &#8211; see also: <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/game\/jccc2th2dmq\/\">JoCo Cruise Crazy 2: Dead Man&#8217;s Quest?<\/a><br \/>12:55 &#8211; who are the people on your puzzle-hunting team?<br \/>24:48 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/7ChY6bCULLY\">&#8220;Is <i>this<\/i> your card?&#8221;<\/a><br \/>32:50 &#8211; again with the <a href=\"http:\/\/wartron.net\/\">WarTron<\/a><br \/>36:13 &#8211; (for the record: also DAIN, DAUN, or DAWN)<br \/>38:57 &#8211; <i>The End<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Tell us we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/386\/\">wrong on the Internet<\/a>! E-mail <a href=\"mailto:podcast@snout.org\">podcast@snout.org<\/a> or post a comment at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/podcast\">www.snout.org\/podcast<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Music: instrumentals from &#8220;Code Monkey&#8221; and &#8220;Skullcrusher Mountain&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathancoulton.com\/\">Jonathan Coulton<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/snoutcast\" rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application\/rss+xml\">Subscribe to SnoutCast<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=348528472\">iTunes link<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/DeeAnn.jpg\" alt=\"DeeAnn\" title=\"DeeAnn\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired in part by @OdinsHunt, a protracted, spoiler-riddled discussion of a time-honored puzzle tradition: backsolving! [ Download mp3 &#8211; 36 MB ] 00:59 &#8211; &#8220;approximate&#8221;02:08 &#8211; hey, remember that Hunt for Odin&#8217;s Horse thing?04:44 &#8211; on the posting of past&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14,67,68,27,7,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debriefing","category-gamecontrol","category-podcast","category-puzzles","category-seattle","category-spoilers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}