{"id":27159,"date":"2025-01-09T21:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T02:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27159"},"modified":"2025-01-09T21:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T02:08:20","slug":"rummikub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27159","title":{"rendered":"Rummikub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently went to a little dinner party at a friend&#8217;s house, and was introduced to the wonderful game of <a href=\"https:\/\/rummikub.com\/\">Rummikub<\/a>. It&#8217;s a game for 6-8 players, but I enjoyed it so much that I also wanted to be able to practice it on my own, wherever I happened to be.<\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t carry a set of Rummikub tiles around with me everywhere, I do carry my MacBook. So the other day I implemented a sort of practice solitaire version, just for fun.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the same as playing with other people. For one thing, you don&#8217;t get that thrilling uncertainty of wondering what moves other people will make during their turn.<\/p>\n<p>But I find it to be quite meditative and enjoyable. When you play it, you&#8217;re basically solving fun little puzzles.<\/p>\n<p>But why take my word for it? You can try it out for yourself <a href=\"https:\/\/cs.nyu.edu\/perlin\/rummikub\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently went to a little dinner party at a friend&#8217;s house, and was introduced to the wonderful game of Rummikub. It&#8217;s a game for 6-8 players, but I enjoyed it so much that I also wanted to be able to practice it on my own, wherever I happened to be. While I don&#8217;t carry &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27159\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rummikub&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27159"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27166,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27159\/revisions\/27166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}