{"id":775,"date":"2011-02-08T22:13:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T05:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/?p=775"},"modified":"2011-02-08T23:14:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T06:14:26","slug":"how-many-puzzles-are-in-the-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/2011\/02\/how-many-puzzles-are-in-the-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"How many puzzles are in The Witness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was deleting an old area of the island, which had about 25 puzzles in it that I wasn't happy with.  I took to wondering how many puzzles would be left on the island after I deleted those, so I added a console command to count puzzles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/puzzles.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/puzzles.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"puzzles\" width=\"497\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-776\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, there are 222 puzzles left in the game (I just deleted about 10% of them).  <\/p>\n<p>Many more puzzles are going to be added; I would guess that by the time the game is done, there will be over 400.  We'll see; I think this will be a fun statistic to watch, along with those screenshots of the island.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, <em>Braid<\/em> has about 76 puzzles in it.  So that tells you something about the relative sizes of the games.  That said, the puzzles in <em>The Witness<\/em> are often intended to be bite-sized and quick, so it's not really a direct comparison.  (On the other hand, some of the puzzles are most definitely not bite-sized and quick!) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was deleting an old area of the island, which had about 25 puzzles in it that I wasn&#8217;t happy with. I took to wondering how many puzzles would be left on the island after I deleted those, so I added a console command to count puzzles: So, there \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/2011\/02\/how-many-puzzles-are-in-the-witness\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}