I'm very interested in our demand, our need for certainty. And puzzles fulfil that and in a very powerful way. Many of them are eccentric. They're not q, just like most people. But i do think the danger of puzzles is that you will think that everything has a black and white answer - which it doesn't. Ilet's e philosophical for a minite. I think you talk bot the squite a bit in te book. For a lot of people, puzzle making is is a haven. It's a solace. There's ta exclamation point waiting, and you don't have to deal with the most of life. Question mark or question mark, forward arrow
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.