[PDF.04xv] The Puzzle Instinct: The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life

The Puzzle Instinct: The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life

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 | #2992035 in Books |  2002-06-19 |  2002-06-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x1.01 x6.12l,1.24 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||30 of 31 people found the following review helpful.| The Puzzle Is: Why Puzzles?|By Rob Hardy|Twenty-five years ago, there was a boom in sales of a fist-sized ingenious contraption of plastic, a fractured cube of multi-colored sides, the pieces of which could be twisted so that all the six faces had different colors (easy) or back to the one configuration where each face had only its own color (hard). The ubiquitous Rubik's C| ||"Danesi, a professor of semiotics and anthropology (Univ. of Toronto), explores why puzzles, having arisen in earliest human history at the same time as mystery cults, are an intrinsic part of human life. Will Shortz, crossword puzzle editor of the New York T

One of the most famous anagrams of all time was constructed in the Middle Ages. The unknown author contrived it as a Latin dialogue between Pilate and Jesus. Jesus’ answer to Pilate’s question "What is truth" is phrased as an ingenious anagram of the letters of that very question: Pilate: Quid est veritas? ("What is truth?") Jesus: Est virqui adest. ("It is the man before you.")

The origin of anagrams is shrouded in mystery. One thing is clear, howev...

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