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Why We Like Puzzles, and What We Get From Them
The Art of Manliness
The Earliest Known Puzzles
The earliest puzzles that i know of, in terms of actual what we consider puzzles, are probably riddles. Riddles have been around for melenia. In every culture you can find them. I talk in the book about a puzzle that helped save western civilization,. There was a really hard puzzle in the london telegraph newspaper. And at the end it said, if you have solved this cross sword in less than 12 minutes, then contact this number. That number happened to be the code breaking arm of the british spy agency. It was the bletchley park where they helped crack the note code. And win the war.
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