The te times puzzle of seven letters arranged in a the shape of kind of a beehive with one letter in the middle. If you get all f the possible words, then you get queen b. Throughout puzzles history, there has been this tension between sharpening people's minds and teaching them how to think,. Is it a vice? The hilarious part is, cross words were invented in 19 13 in the new york world, the yellow journalistin paper. People were obsessed with hem. But one paper refused to print them because they thought they were a waste of time. They were called hem a pestilence. And now, when you think of puzzles, the new York Times is
How much of life can be solved by algorithms, and how much just can't be solved? Listen as A.J. Jacobs, author of The Puzzler, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the lessons he learned from solving every kind of puzzle imaginable, including the biggest stumper of all: what it really means to be a human being.