#puzzles

Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all... ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#mystery #puzzle #puzzles #solution #solve

You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!' ↗

— Harlan Coben

#because #box #buy #call #even

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#fun #games #guy #i #i love

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. ↗

— Maya Lin

#i #i love #love #math #me

I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#i #make #puzzles #simple #simple words

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#crossword #kills #mental #puzzles #read

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life. ↗

— Erno Rubik

#near #problems #puzzles #very

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#brought #crossword #doing #moments #puzzles

People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#down #know #making #people #progress

From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other. ↗

— Georges Perec

#meditations #puzzles #design