Just Connections, Wordle, and Mini for me (in that order), with the occasional Crossword (tend towards a barbell strategy of just doing maybe Mon, Tue, Sun to get the quick hits and a real challenging puzzle).
Also experience the odd difficulty due to Americanisms, but can't really fault a puzzle coming from something called the New York Times for that. I do however think the puzzle setting for Connections is inferior to The Wall from Only Connect, where they got the idea from. If you haven't seen that yet it's definitely worth a watch (it gets harder as as a season progresses).
Fun! If bi-twin chains are those where +1 AND -1 are prime, I wonder what the longest chain is where either +1 OR -1 are prime. And while we're at it, why not XOR too.
If there haven't been any proposals for a friendly name for the 23 bit holdout it looks like a pair of glasses to me. So perhaps "spectacles" would be a nice one, similar to the spectre of recent aperiodic monotile fame.
> with a description reading like it was written by Douglas Adams.
No kidding! From the wikipedia page:
> Consideration was given to listing the bench as a protected structure but was decided against as there could then have been a requirement imposed on the council to destroy the tree to protect the bench
Reminds me of Gödel, Escher, Bach in which there is a phonograph dubbed "Record Player X", which destroys itself by playing a record titled I Cannot Be Played on Record Player X.
I am equal parts daunted and excited about the size of it. On one hand, of course it's a lot of time (he's said it might the average person 500 hours to complete), and I'm liable to binge. On the other, I imagine there will be some incredible depth to it, and maybe a "little and often" strategy might not be too bad (if possible). Despite adoring The Witness and Braid, I'm still not sure if I'll get this one. Would my life be richer from finishing this or a few hundred films? My money is on the latter.
Btw Patrick's Parabox in full is 364 puzzles (I know this off hand because I left it at 363 for a few months before coming back to finish the last one, and it's one off 365).
This is great! Especially nice to hear as I'd been all to aware of the advice to not rewrite your whole codebase once you raise some money as that's an easy way to tank the company. As a result I have probably erred to much on the type of refactoring he compares this to.
More recently I have been more aligned with the shredding approach. I think one of the reasons that it works that isn't mentioned here, is that often you only really know what's needed after finishing the first implementation and/or using it for a while.
If you like puzzles this will brighten your day.
https://youtu.be/yKf9aUIxdb4
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