{"id":13671,"date":"2011-04-06T16:28:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T23:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2011\/04\/06\/13671.html"},"modified":"2011-04-06T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T23:28:50","slug":"nifty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2011\/04\/06\/nifty\/","title":{"rendered":"Nifty hand game: Sticks\/Chopsticks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tivi, who is seven, just taught me and Jim a nifty game we hadn't seen before. Tivi called it &ldquo;Sticks&rdquo;; Wikipedia calls it &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chopsticks_(hand_game)\">Chopsticks<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article's attempt to explain the rules is awful, and very confusing, and I don't have time to improve it right now. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Play-Chopsticks\">eHow page<\/a> about the game is better, though still somewhat confusing.<\/p>\n<p>The version Tivi taught us is a variant combining the &ldquo;Splits&rdquo; rule (where you can redistribute fingers between your two hands) and the &ldquo;Leftovers&rdquo; rule, in which going over 5 wraps around to n-5 (or n mod 5, if you prefer to think of it that way). I like the version he taught us better than the basic game.<\/p>\n<p>Various pages suggest that it's a two-player game, but we played with three and it seemed to work okay. (But we only played once.)<\/p>\n<p>I see that there's also an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chopstickgame.com\/\">online version<\/a>, allegedly with a computer opponent, but the computer doesn't seem to actually play.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tivi, who is seven, just taught me and Jim a nifty game we hadn&#8217;t seen before. Tivi called it &ldquo;Sticks&rdquo;;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=13671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}