I just finished reading the The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs. (His previous book was The Know-It-All, a phrase more than occasionally applied to me, much to my dismay.) In it Jacobs explores a variety of puzzles and games, giving examples of each. As he meanders along he also relays his personal experiences with the challenge. Because I realized I had spent most of my life trying to solve all kinds of puzzles I have decided to use Jacobs’ format for the next series of posts . I am going to ignore any deep metaphorical reason for this and am just going with the claim that they are all a lot of fun.(That and they allow me to continue to deserve my aforementioned sobriquet.) The first post appears tomorrow.
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Sounds like an interesting series, Elizabeth. I do the JUMBLE word puzzle in the morning paper almost every day, but I seldom do Crosswords and never do Jigsaws any more — not because I stopped liking them, but because there just aren’t enough hours in the day. Nonetheless, I’ll try to take time for at least some of your puzzles.
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I forgot about the jumble. Thanks for the reminder.
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Looking forward to it Elizabeth.
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What fun! Looking forward to tomorrow’s post, Elizabeth!
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Looking forward to the post!
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Having fun seems like a pretty good reason to do anything.
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My thought exactly.
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Hi Elizabeth, that sounds like fun.
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I have never been a ‘Puzzler’. I just couldn’t care less whether I solved it ot not. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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But you write stories which puzzle all your readers until the very ends!
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Just my version of puzzling. I don’t have to care if I ‘win’. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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But you seem to each time.
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I love puzzles. I early retirement I tried every puzzle in the centre pull-out of a UK newspaper called the Daily Mail. (There’s little else to recommend it but lots of puzzles.) Most of these puzzles I had never tried before, but I was galvanised when a lecturer from a London university who I dated when I was between husbands mentioned that he enjoyed the killer sudokus published in the Times. To be honest, I didn’t find him the stongest intellect in the faculty, so I thought ‘If you can, I’m pretty certain I can’ and I bought a book of Killer Sudokus. Sure enough, they were do-able.
Since then I’ve had a go at every puzzle I come across. Now I have the time to work them out, I’ve found most of them are negotiable (although some are boring). If only I’d tried earlier in life, I might have had a better opinion of my intellectual capacities.
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I am thrilled to find a puzzle companion. When I have finished the series, please fill me in on any I miss.
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Love puzzles and games of all kinds. Unfortunately I can spend WAY too much time on them if I allow myself to do so.
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I remind myself that I am retired. Play away!
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