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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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.
yeah exactly - this is probably why I’m so fascinated by the idea of a Unified Theory of Puzzles
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though honestly I’m more interested in accounts of solving puzzles than in solving puzzles myself usually
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Same re: I like narratives of puzzle-solving One of the reasons I became so in love with fabricating real things is that it's both incredibly complex AND there are many solutions -- you can do something elegantly or just kludge it. Example: Each spoon I make is a carving puzzle
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