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233 - The Puzzler - A. J. Jacobs

You Are Not So Smart

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Learning to Live With Puzzles

i love the way you created a game to illustrate this, learning to live with puzzles that will never be solved. i do think we need that kind of uncertain thinking and being ok with not having black and white answers. There are some people who fill crosswords in and pen and they sort of ave got a macho agger,. I am all about the pencil. The eraser is one of the greatest things because everything should be probablistic. You can't become attached to it. So i the worstpa cross word solving is when i say, this is the word, and i refuse to change it. Wi sang, i think this is it, but i'm uncertain.

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