#chefren

Montazah, Alexandria, 29-06-1972

Gizeh - The Sphinx and the Chefren and Mykérinos

Chefren, Giza

Belgian artist uses drone to hide message on top of Pyramid of Chefren.

This is DESECRATION OF A GLOBAL MONUMENT - AND SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ALLOWED

So this is an obscure game for most of you, I bet - Chefrens Pyramid! This was a math game that we had in elementary and middle school. The plot of the game is that you are a tourist in Egypt who gets caught in Chefren's Pyramid and has to solve math puzzles to get back out. It was pretty fun, except that some of the puzzles are bullshit hard. I looked at some of them again now and I still have no idea how to solve some of these puzzles. So the game also has some non-math elements, like video clips of Egyptian markets and not!Tetris called Chefris. Those were alright, but nothing that's really impressive.

Unlike the last game we had in school, this one came around when the classroom had more than one computer so it caused absolutely zero drama. It did spark some rumours though. Since the game was so hard for most of us, stories about people who actually finished the game began circulating and they were revered as heroes. No one ever had any name, of course, but we'd all heard about that girl in sixth grade who beat the game or whatever.

The subject of the picture is one of the non-math games that I really enjoyed - the game of Nim. The point of the game was that you had three piles of pyramids, and you could remove as many as you liked from any pile but only one pile at a time. The point of the game was to force your opponent to make the final move. I really liked it back then and I still think it's a neat game now.