{"id":5608,"date":"1999-07-19T02:09:15","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/2-4-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:37:07","slug":"2-4-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/2-4-html\/","title":{"rendered":"2.4.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2.4<\/strong>.  A man lies dead in a room with fifty-three<br \/>\nbicycles in front of him.<\/p>\n<p>2.4 answer:  The &#8220;bicycles&#8221; are Bicycle playing cards; the man was<br \/>\ncheating at cards, and when the extra card was found, he was killed by the<br \/>\nother players.<\/p>\n<p>2.4a.  Variant: There are 53 bees instead of 53 bicycles.<\/p>\n<p>2.4a answer:  The same (Bee is another brand of playing cards).<\/p>\n<p>2.4b.  Variant: There are 51 instead of 53.<\/p>\n<p>2.4b answer:  Someone saw the guy conceal a card, and proved the deck was<br \/>\ndefective by turning it up and pointing out the missing ace.  Or, the game<br \/>\nwas bridge, and the others noticed the cheating when the deal didn&#8217;t come<br \/>\nout even.  The man had palmed an ace during the shuffle and meant to put it<br \/>\nin his own hand during the deal, but muffed it.  (both answers from Mark<br \/>\nBrader)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2.4. A man lies dead in a room with fifty-three bicycles in front of him. 2.4 answer: The &#8220;bicycles&#8221; are Bicycle playing cards; the man was cheating at cards, and when the extra card was found, he was killed by the other players. 2.4a. Variant: There are 53 bees instead of 53 bicycles. 2.4a answer: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5484,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5608","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15868,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5608\/revisions\/15868"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}