(to be clear I think this is very good, I mean “good like this” as in “also good”)
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Has anybody encountered anything good like this - a general theory of puzzles and puzzle-solving? https://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/resources/thinkingaboutpuzzles.html …
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“Have you tried ______ the problem?” https://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/resources/haveyoutried.pdf …pic.twitter.com/dLMJOoxjYQ
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If you can solve a puzzle through a series of unchanging algorithms, is it really a puzzle? To me, good puzzles and games yield improvisation and "eureka" moments. I do think that algorithm-izing puzzles is what yields more complex puzzles -- by making us pursue new algorithms.
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yeah exactly - this is probably why I’m so fascinated by the idea of a Unified Theory of Puzzles
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I have a really old, good book about it, but nothing this concise and meta.
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what’s it called?
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theories of what makes for a satisfying puzzle, how people solve puzzles, how people find puzzles to solve...
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that sounds promising!
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