{"id":3462,"date":"2015-12-28T16:42:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T16:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2015-12-28T17:04:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T17:04:42","slug":"more-hanayama-chess-piece-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/28\/more-hanayama-chess-piece-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"More Hanayama (Chess Piece Puzzles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/21\/fun-with-hanayama-cast-puzzles\/\">Hanayama puzzles before,<\/a> so this is more a reminder than a long post. After I discovered these fantastic puzzles last year it pretty much became a norm now that anytime I visit Japan and have an occasion to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loft.co.jp\">Loft department store<\/a>, of other similar shops selling variety and fun stuff I do so with a hope I will find some new sets. This is how I came across a relatively new set from Hanayama called Chess Puzzles (which apparently is a remake of a puzzle set made by the designer Marcel Gillen) and thought it will be a good moment to mention the company and their products again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are my new babies:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/hanayama.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/hanayama-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"hanayama\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/hanayama-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/hanayama.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chess Puzzles turned out to be really easy and I went through them in no time. Luckily, there are still quite a few cast puzzles I have not cracked from the large collection I acquired last year.<\/p>\n<p>Hanayama puzzles are of fantastic quality, have a great playability factor, and are a perfect gift for anyone who likes to crack problems.<\/p>\n<p>I (again) highly recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about Hanayama puzzles before, so this is more a reminder than a long post. After I discovered these fantastic puzzles last year it pretty much became a norm now that anytime I visit Japan and have an occasion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/28\/more-hanayama-chess-piece-puzzles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3465,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}