but the best puzzles offer a workout for a number of different skills (advanced colour matching, shape resolution, following lines, identifying the tiniest of details) and they offer them in a series of passages of varying difficulty. Sometimes the pictures are pretty good too.
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- Not only pointless, but maddening – 999 pieces
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- Shape discrimination,
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- colour and pattern,
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- following lines, picking out details,
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- sorting 50 shades of white
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- but far too many of these – reduced to trial and error.
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- Speed puzzling required – as I discovered the box was split and dared not hoover until finished
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- It was this puzzle which first informed me that someone called Dante wrote a poem
