50 Logic Puzzles: Full of Fun Logic Grid Puzzles!: Volume 2 (Brain Teaser Puzzle Books)

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They’re very literary. So Tolkien, Harry Potter. Jane Austen had a lot of riddles. They are perhaps the oldest type of puzzle, and they are incredibly cross-cultural. Any culture from any time period has riddles. I do think they do get a bit of a bad rap, especially compared to their cousin, the joke. Jokes are considered much cooler than riddles. Even if you look at Batman, Heath Ledger won the Oscar for playing the Joker, but the Riddler is not as exciting a character. It is time for a sunbath at the beach! Try to find out which family brought the yellow umbrella to the beach. Four friends are playing Monopoly. Try to figure out which pawn each one is playing with and which contract each one owns. As well as being a puzzler yourself, you’ve now spent quite a bit of time with other people who spend a lot of time doing puzzles. Generally, based on yourself and your observation of others, what do you think attracts people to puzzles? Palmer MD. Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness, by Lawrence Katz and Manning Rubin. Activities, Adaptation & Aging. 2016;40(1):80-80. doi:10.1080/01924788.2016.1144015.

Four students from abroad chose to study in universities from the UK. Figure out where each student is going to study. Yes, the solution to this one is letter. Each group of pictures has a common theme. Together, they spell out a sentence, which then reveals the solution. Calm Puzzles: More than 50 puzzles, including word searches, snakewords, word finders and wordwheels, to promote calm and mindfulness Yes, exactly. I discovered this because one of my favorite characters that I interviewed for my book is a woman named Elonka Dunin. She is obsessed with secret codes and ciphers and cryptics. So obsessed, in fact, that she moved states to be closer to one of her favorite puzzles. It’s called Kryptos and it’s at the headquarters of the CIA. It’s a sculpture that was created 32 years ago that is a cipher. It’s a big metal wall, carved with hundreds of letters. No one, not even the CIA, has been able to solve the cipher completely. They’ve solved parts of it, but no one has completely figured it all out. It’s one of the most famously unsolved puzzles in the world. I’d say there are several things that are alluring about puzzles. One is the search for the aha moment when you actually solve a puzzle. I get an actual dopamine rush from it, the same chemical that—they say—you get from cocaine and sex and all that. So, for me, it is similar to a drug.

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Four young soccer players are transferring from Brazil to Italy. What is the position of the youngest player? I know. You can see all the tragedy but also the triumphs. You can see it all in the history of ciphers. So I’m a big fan. It’s a fun book. Four kids rode their bikes to deliver newspapers. Figure out how many newspapers each kid delivered.

Logic Problems has long reigned as the premier magazine for the very best classic logical puzzles. Use the clues to deduce the unique solution of who, what, where, when and how! So, in your book, you tried to visit people who are very, very involved with basically every single type of puzzle you could think of?

Let’s go on to Masquerade by Kit Williams, which is an armchair treasure hunt. This was a big deal, I think.

Giant monsters are menacing cities all over the world. Which city is the biggest monster destroying? But I will say I gained respect for riddles because they can be poetry. It’s not just about solving the puzzle. They can be these extended metaphors that make you see life in a different way. Let me just read you one of my favorites. It’s from The Hobbit by Tolkien and I think it’s a lovely little bit of poetry.Four couples are going to marry after years of engagement. Figure out who will be Ofelia's husband. Four drivers are filling their cars at a gas station. Can you find out how many gallons were filled by pump number 4? Four friends had a good time playing a match of bowling. can you find out how many points each one scored? Yuki A, Lee S, Kim H, Kozakai R, Ando F, Shimokata H. Relationship between physical activity and brain atrophy progression. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2012;44(12):2362-2368. doi:10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182667d1d

I loved the jigsaw chapter in your book. It was also interesting reading about riddles. When you think of The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, people are very attracted to them, but I’m not sure if they are as much part of our culture anymore.

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In the subtitle of your book, you mention the quest for the meaning of life. Is that because part of the reason we like doing puzzles is that it gives us a sense we’re getting closer to understanding that? Four European countries adopted the euro in different years. Try to figure out which conversion rate was used by each country. Four competitors won different prizes on different days on a TV game show. Who won the biggest prize? I also think that puzzles are a Platonic ideal of a problem. Life’s problems are often very complicated. There is no one simple answer; there are a bunch of answers. Each is suboptimal and you have to figure out which is the best of the imperfect solutions. But with puzzles, there is that one perfect solution. It is very satisfying. We live in a world of greys and probabilities and puzzles present us with that Platonic ideal where you can say, ‘Okay, it all makes sense. It all works perfectly. It all fits together.’ So that is another reason. Let’s move on to the last of the puzzle books you’ve recommended which is Codebreaking: A Practical Guide by Elonka Dunin and Klaus Schmeh . This is not about using a computer but traditional codebreaking using paper and pencil, is that right?